Aims

In particular the association will pursue the following objectives concerning parquet-laying skills and flooring technology in all the countries where it is represented:

1. Conceptual, professional and legal support of training Europe-wide.
2. Aquisition and/ or renting of rooms for Europe-wide training activities.
3. Encouragement of contacts between apprentices, professionals in the trade professionals and trainers to improve standards of training.
4. Promotion and improvement in the standards of training, levels of attainment in final examinations and corresponding improvement in employment prospects.
5. Promotion  and consolidation of contacts between vocational schools and comparable training institutions as well as between individual trainers, training companies, associations and others.
6. The setting-up and fostering of contacts between the institutions mentioned in paragraph 2 should serve:

» to promote language and professional skills as well as skills specific to particular countries in the form of courses for apprentices and professionals with possible schemes between each these two groups.
» to discover the culture of other countries, particularly at the vocational level.
» on completion of the training courses, to implement European competitions with the award of qualifying certificates etc.