North Macedonia: Strengthening a sustainable textile industry

In November 2022, the Employers' Association of the Clothing Industry Aschaffenburg und Unterfranken e.V. launched a small-scale measure with the Northern Macedonian Textile Trade Association of Macedonia - Textile Cluster (TTA-CT). The measure runs until August 2023 and is designed to strengthen the Northern Macedonian association TTA-CT as a competent service provider and contact partner for politics, business and companies and to expand the competences of TTA-CT in the areas of innovation, sustainability and digitalisation. In cooperation with selected companies, current problems and needs in the Northern Macedonian clothing industry are to be elicited and concrete advisory and training seminars defined as examples. The current international requirements for standards and certification as well as the German initiatives on the topic of sustainability, such as "Grüner Knopf", will also be presented within the framework of this measure, that is financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.