Sustainable Transfer of Textile and Fashion in Vocational Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable Transfer of Textile and Fashion in Vocational Education

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

Context/background of the project
Clothing is a basic need; people all over the world deal with clothing every day and this global industry has a significant influence on several countries ‘ economies, environment and everyday life.
We think therefore, it is important to invest in young people learning for a job in fashion and to invest in this way in the industry’ s innovations. It will turn the negative aspects of this business into positive ones ( Blue is the New Black, M. Hoitink 2012). The heart of every fashion company is design, development and production. These are in most cases the teams that work together most intensively with all other departments – from design to legal , sales and marketing.
Number and profile of participating organisations;
The Lette Verein, specialized in Design, Vitalis College, specialized in development and Ege University, specialized in production. Ekoten Textile A.S. has an excellent and unique fabric library with more than 3.700 fabrics registered, complete with all their specification & performance histories. The Partners agreed to cooperate and exchange knowledge , skills and competences in order to create a new Fashion learning traject module in a blended learning environment and a learning mobility in each EU region. Each partner in Fashion, each with specific expertise in design, development and production will exchange specific knowledge, skills and competences about this information flow from the start of the development process to the end of production and cooperate in this with Ekoten Textile A.S. the biggest knitted fabric manufacturer in Turkey and in Europe.

Description of undertaken main activities;
The partners in this project developed: a flexibel blended learning pathway with clusters of learning outcomes, modules in English for this crucial element of successful internal workings of the brand and for the external relationships with factories, trim suppliers and customers: each partner developed content which is complementary for the others and cover the Design, Development and Production aspect in Fashion and Textile vocational education. The partners developed the blended tool in Specific English language and content learning in English ( CLIL and ESP module)
All learning outcomes will be registered in the Roc abroad database which is developed on with a cluster of StinFash Learning Mobility in this project by ROC West-Brabant and was used for registering the results of learning activities ( Learning outcomes) and link them to the EU framework of Key competences. All Fashion students were invited to test and train and built the digital portfolio, showing learning outcomes of a learning mobilities.

Results and impact attained;
The complementary aspects in this cooperation of international partners has a great impact for participants and participating organizations. It improves quality and attractiveness of the courses by implementing a blended learning pathway “Plus” in design, development and production with an international learning mobility. Work based and with specific skills for each region: for future employees in Fashion Industry this could mean going on to a wide range of jobs in both industry and services, offer better options for employment and further study.

Longer-term benefits
On local , regional , national and European level the cooperation of international partners creates transparency in EQF qualification levels 3, 4 and 5 of Vocational Education. The complementarity also improves possibilities of continuing training in courses with specific skills, going into higher education. The internationalization of the curricula gives a wider range of provision and allows learners to continue their studys at a higher level and reduces early school leaving in vocational education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150735 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stichting ROC West-Brabant & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Lette-Verein, Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts
• Ekoten Tekstil San. ve Tic. A.S.
• EGE UNIVERSITY