The lack of skilled operatives is forcing companies and trade associations, such as FederlegnoArredo and the Legno Arredo Training Centre, to take matters into their own hands, setting up new schools and new professional training programmes, helping to fill the gap between market demand and supply. Elle Decoration Poland turns the spotlight on the bathroom furnishing sector, highlighting “The shortage of qualified installers in the sanitary industry is a challenge that GROHE, a global manufacturer of complete bathroom and kitchen solutions, has set out to meet. It has launched the attractive GIVE (GROHE Installer Vocational Training and Education) training and education program that helps young people acquire a vocational training and prepare them to be qualified installers of the future. In recent months, GROHE has opened 12 new training centers with the global GIVE program for future plumbers. A particular success was the inauguration of the school in North-West Africa, in the capital of Ghana, Accra” (read here the complete article)