Project Upskill

LINPRA (Lithuania) is the coordinator for UPSKILL project. LINPRA was established in 1993, as an independent self-governing employer association, uniting more than 100 major manufacturing, services companies, and education institutions. It represents Lithuanian engineering industry, interests of companies, working in metal, machinery and equipment, electromechanics and electronics, plastics and rubber industry on an international and national level. TREDU (Finland) is a regional upper secondary level college in the second largest city region in Finland. Nowadays there are approximately 8000 IVET students, 10 000 adult VET students and 1000 staff members, making Tredu the second largest vocational college in Finland. Tampere Vocational College Tredu has altogether 17 campus areas in Tampere region. Courses are arranged also elsewhere in Finland. FIPIF (Finland) is a trade association for Finnish plastics manufacturing companies. FIPIF represents 103 Finnish plastics manufacturing companies and the Finnish plastics sector. Within FIPIF there are separate groups for different sectors in the plastic industry.