Textile and Clothing Knowledge Alliance. Future textile and clothing managers for export, marketing, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship oriented companies. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Textile and Clothing Knowledge Alliance. Future textile and clothing managers for export, marketing, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship oriented companies.

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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Open and distance learning; Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries

Project Summary

This Knowledge Alliance aims at modernising EU’s higher education systems in the field of textiles and clothing (T&C) through a better anticipation of skill needs, based on development of sustainable partnerships between education and employment. This Alliance will result in a facilitated sector adaptation during crisis processes through a better anticipation and positive management of change, via the training of a new generation of strategic managers able to foster stronger synergies between innovation, skills and jobs.Starting from companies’ needs, a pan-european MOOC (Massive Online Learning Course) will be developed in 8 different EU languages, educating the future T&C Managers for export, marketing, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship oriented companies (TECLOM).ACTIVITIES- Development of sectoral methods for anticipation of skills needs – Implementation of specific initiatives that stimulate employers to co-invest in the activities of HEIs, research and business centres to address new skills requirements – Development of a new flexible, innovative learning approach and delivery method for the T&C HEI sector, taking into account barriers existing among SMEs and based on experiential learning / real-life situations- Set up of the EU curricula of the new professional figure of the TECLOM, endowed with more advanced social, entrepreneurial and management skills- Development of flexible devices for validation and recognition of entrepreneurship skills, using ECVET principles – Providing the sector with a MOOC for the new TECLOM – a freely accessible and openly licensed online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web – with a strong use of simulation and real-life situations – Pilot the MOOC on over 200 among T&C university students and managers (8 Learning Labs)- Set up of a European Development Network for TECLOM pooling the assets of universities, research centres, SMEs and large companies together.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 620431 Eur

Project Coordinator

LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACIO AGRUPACIO D EMPRESES INNOVADORES TEXTILS
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA
• TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PIRAEUS
• CREATIVE THINKING DEVELOPMENT
• UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA GHEORGHE ASACHI DIN IASI
• ASOCIATIA ABSOLVENTILOR FACULTATII DE TEXTILE-PIELARIE DIN IASI
• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI