In order to meet its goals, EPP is involved as partner in European projects dealing with skills/competences, vocational training, mobility of apprentices, tutorship, research and innovation.

Trained Worldwide Painters

The TWwP project was created to design a training system based on the qualification of painters/decorators suitable for retraining adults and the migrant population. Emphasis will be placed on the certification of learning outcomes through micro-credentials. To promote the integration of a migrant population in a professional painting environment in a foreign country and to create a social bond between employees of the same facility, the TWwP project will enable them to acquire a professional vocabulary in the language of their host country.

The project will also provide tools to assess the migrants’ knowledge of painting after a training session by asking them to respond to different instances of using painting using a professional vocabulary in the language of the country in which they will be working.

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DIGI-Paint
A digital vision for Painting and Decorating Educators.

DIGI-Paint is the latest successful European Project submitted by UNIEP to the Erasmus Agency of Luxembourg, ANEFORE. The focus of this project will be:

  • Building capacity to implement online, blended and distance teaching and learning;
  • Developing digital pedagogical competences of educators, enabling them to deliver high quality inclusive digital education;
  • Creating high quality digital content such as innovative online resources and tools.

The project main objective is to create digital tailor-made solutions adapted to the painting decorator educators to give them the resources and tools to overcome the current digital challenge. Teachers, Trainers and Tutors in company will be the target group as they are key elements in the learning process. During the pandemic they were a target group with a strong need of adaptation into the digital.


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PaintingSkillsAcademy – PSA

The PaintingSkillsAcademy is an Erasmus+ project co-financed by the EU under the Sector Skills Alliance framework and coordinated by SBG Dresden (DE).

The project started in December 2019 and it will last for 3 years.

It aims to merge all the other previous projects for the sector with the establishment of a structure for initial and further training for the European Painting trade under the umbrella of UNIEP.

The main activities developed within the project include the description of quality standards and units of learning outcomes (level 1-6 EQF), the description of curricula, the recognition of acquired competencies and the correct assignment to the PSA competency level on level 1-6 EQF (methods / procedures) and the formulation of specific PSA training offers (for the different target groups at the different EQF levels, for learning at different learning locations in Europe).

Visit the website www.paintingskillsacademy.eu to discover more!


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Paint Tutors Up

Paint Tutors Up (PaintUp) is an Erasmus+ KA2 project coordinated by UNIEP – the international association of Painting Contractors.
It has started in October 2017 and ended in December 2019. 
It aims to reinforce the Tutor’s role in Work Based Learning involving VET Institutes and Companies in the Painting sector.
In the framework of this project, an innovative online course for tutors in Painting companies has been created: discover it here !

Visit the project website here and discover more!


The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi­ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.