Fashion Victim Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fashion Victim

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The idea of an Erasmus + partnership project emerged a few years ago from our meeting with a few teachers from IPSIA Vallauri in Carpi, while we were looking for a partner school to forge bonds between the industrial and cultural heritages of our respective regions, Pays de la Loire in France and Emilia-Romagna in Italy. We soon realized the interest that this alliance could present: in addition to an agreement on a human level, similarities between our respective regions, both economically and culturally, and identical programs within our two vocational schools, that is to say the fashion sector, we saw an opportunity to combine our assets and skills to achieve an exchange partnership around a common creative project. We therefore naturally turned to Erasmus for this project to emerge. We set the following objectives with our partner: allowing a group of students and teachers from both establishments to meet and work together in order to create a motivating and civic dynamic of cultural and heritage discovery around the achievement of a range of clothes on the same theme, Japan. To do so, we worked together on a two-year program, made up of interdisciplinary activities in the fields of fashion, art, languages, history and geography provided in our respective schools, and jointly during four trips (two in each country), to culminate in a common fashion show that would allow the tailored outfits to be presented. From September 2019 to March 2020, the program could be carried out as planned with the main achievements of fruitful distance exchanges and educational activities making it possible to lay the foundations of the project and create links between the participants, and above all a first mobility of the French group in Italy. Unfortunately, the onset of the COVID19 epidemic disrupted the progress of the project and forced us to rethink the terms of the exchange. If these adaptations penalized the participants through the frustration of not being able to carry out the planned meetings, and slowed down the progress of the production of the collection, this did not prevent the two schools from continuing their exchanges remotely or from completing the collection of clothes.
There is no doubt that this experience, despite the obstacles encountered, will remain memorable for French and Italian students thanks to the moments shared. The personal and professional enrichment that the project could bring to them represents so many beneficial assets for their future life, preparing them for the possibility of continuing their studies, and why not do an internship or even hold a job in a foreign country.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 32283 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée des Métiers Heinlex & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ipsia “G. Vallauri”