AEQUALIS – searching for “equal, similar, or uniform” upskilling and reskilling ideals for European textile, clothing, leather, and footwear industries
Textile, clothing, leather and footwear – TCLF-branch in production has long and strong history and traditions in every nations cultures and heritage. Now this branch of skillful handicrafts, passionate creativity, traditional industry and innovative technology in designing and producing our everyday intimate skin and bodily connections with the world has very complicated challenges connected to e.g. global business with cheap mass production in developing countries, massive waste problem of used clothes, toxic production processes in the industry, problems of global social justice in working conditions of industry workers, to mention a few.