The European furniture sector comprises about 130.000 businesses, generating an annual turnover of almost 115,178,000€, employing about 1.2 million people. This sector is constantly evolving, it has undergone major changes in recent years, moving from being a manufacturing sector to an industrial sector in which it has incorporated both new working methods and new technology.

FUNES will generate a interrelationship among various the new skills demanded in the furniture sector in the future years, a system to evaluate whether a worker of this sector has the future skills, and a specific training material that will be generated in order to...

The development of the project is to define the different scenarios in which companies are going to find in the future, by analyzing and identifying the new skills required of the current and future workers, horizontal skills or specific skills to maintain the position of the European furniture sector...