ELASTIC – Innovation through the textile industry in the past, present and future Erasmus Project

Project Title

ELASTIC – Innovation through the textile industry in the past, present and future

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Environment and climate change; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

Project ELASTIC – Innovation through the textile industry in the past, present and future – How the textile industry has changed our regions

The main objective of this project was to make participants understand the economic, social, political, environmental and cultural changes connected with the rise and fall of the textile industries in their respective regions in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the Czech Republic and to make them aware of how significant the impact of these changes has been on the development of their communities up to the present.
There were between seven and ten students in each team. The exchange with the partner schools’ teams via the etwinning platform and visits enabled them to get a broader perspective on these developments and made them see similarities, differences and interdependent relationships throughout Europe and even on the global scale.
Work on the project was divided into different subtopics, thus enabling students to approach the subject in different ways. Research was done in the fields of general economic, technological, environmental, social, political, cultural as well as local history. Former textile production sites were visited, former production methods studied on site and the impact of structural change was investigated. Students documented the results of their work in many different ways by writing texts, translating and making audio versions of them, taking photographs of the objects and sites, preparing presentations and show cases, making films, collages and fashion shows, designing flyers or even composing the background music of the audio texts.
The main common product of the project was an app programmed by students documenting the knowledge achieved during the project. This app (available as a web app (elastic-app.eu) as well as in Play Store or App Store (Project Elastic)) was not only designed for the use of students participating in the project but also their fellow students and, of course, for local tourism purposes as well. It provides a self-guided tour via smartphone of the former production sites of the textile industry including information on their present use.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 66800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lise Meitner Gymnasium Neuenhaus & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Het Erasmus
• Gymnazium Valasske Klobouky
• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych w Zelowie, ul. Kilinskiego 40, 97-425 Zelow