07Mar 2019
Project partners review the reporting questionnaire for their new project European Social and Environmental Report 2020
After their kick-off meeting last February 7, 2019, COTANCE and industriAll-European Trade Union called the project partners on 27 Febru...
27Feb 2019
SER20 - The Steering Committee holds it first meeting in the framework of the new Social Dialogue project that aims the drafting of the 2nd European Social and Environmental Report.
The delegates from ACEXPIEL (ES), AHLI (HU), APPBR (RO), FFTM (F...
07Feb 2019
The European Social Partners of the Leather Industry kick off their new common project: Leather: European Social and Environmental Report 2020
On 7 February 2019, Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano (COTANCE) and Laurent Zibell (industriAll-European trade union...
28Jan 2019
Fashion World's Challenges - Looking for Qualification, Occupations…and the right skills in the TCLF sectors
“For many years our first priority was to win customers and to keep our mill busy. Now our first priority is to find (and retain) skilled emp...
03Dec 2018
The SELAMBQ project takes stock of the first year of activity and is projected into the second year operational phase.
Activated at the end of 2017, SELAMBQ (Spanish Entrefino Lamb Quality) is a multi-year cooperation program that comes from the need to fi...
19Nov 2018
The Social Partners of the European Leather industry met on 30 October 2018 for reviewing the overall results of their joint project on Due Diligence for Health & Safety at tannery workplaces.
COTANCE and industriAll-Europe are pleased with the success...
27Aug 2018
COTANCE call on Helsinki Fashion Week to reconsider its decision to ban leather as of 2019
Helsinki fashion week founder, Evelyn Mora, announced that leather would be banned from her show as of 2019. The press reports that the decision was to take “an ac...
09Jul 2018
COTANCE President Kindermann in Brussels for defending leather authenticity
On Thursday 5 July 2018, COTANCE President Andreas Kindermann (Wollsdorf Leather, Austria) was received by DG GROW Director Slawomir Tokarski for addressing the state of play of th...
22Jun 2018
Blueprint “Skills4Smart TCLF 2030†Second Partners’ Meeting: Looking for Excellence in VET
At a time when youth unemployment, ageing-workforce and skills shortage become some of the major challenges facing the Textile, Clothing, Leather, and Fo...
31May 2018
Andreas Kindermann becomes President of COTANCE in Verona
Austrian Andreas Kindermann, CEO of Wollsdorf Leather, was unanimously elected by his peers as President of COTANCE at the General Assembly that took place on 29 May in Verona (Italy). Mr Ki...