Educate! E-Learning for the Textile Care Sector Erasmus Project

Project Title

Educate! E-Learning for the Textile Care Sector

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The Erasmus+ project “Educate! E-Learning for the Textile Care Sector” conducted by 6 partners from Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden addresses the priorities of social inclusion and of open education and innovative practices in a digital era. The employees in the textile care incl. industrial laundry and textiles services and consumer laundry services are predominantly female, very often low skilled and have a migrant background to varying degrees depending on the EU country. Due to their life situation and educational biography they do not have adequate access to vocational education and training. The company-oriented and media-innovative approach of this project opens the door to VET and thus promotes equality, including gender equality, and inclusion.
In the “Educate!” project, work was carried out in six intellectual ouputs so that at the end of the project an innovative learning offer for low-skilled employees in the textile care sector was available in the form of the e-learning platform “E-Washboard” e-washboard.eu. At the end of the project, the offer contains up to 20 e-learning modules, each in Czech, English, German, French and Dutch. This product opens the door to vocational training for the target group, it strengthens the employees’ reflexivity and self-confidence, encourages new forms of learning and at the same time promotes media and media literacy. As a work-based learning approach, it is also perfect for use in in-company training.

Project Website

https://www.e-washboard.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 325866 Eur

Project Coordinator

HeurekaNet – Freies Institut für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Tvätteriförbundets Service AB
• Federatie van de Belgische Textielverzorging/Federation Belge de l’entretien du textile
• Deutscher Textilreinigungs-Verband
• ETSA European Textile Services Association
• Asociace pradelen a cistiren CR, z. s.