Textile heritage – from the Wooden loOm Weaving to the Digital ARt Erasmus Project

Project Title

Textile heritage – from the Wooden loOm Weaving to the Digital ARt

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The world of the textile industry is in a process of transformation from what it is today to looking back to what it was in the past – new technologies, globalization and ecology are the three main forces that influence this process with the usual pressure on resources, markets for products and fashion. At the same time, improving the quality of the European education and training system has been set as a key target in Europe’s strategy for becoming a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy by 2020 (Council of European Union, 2010). As such specific goal, to improve skills within the adult education is seen as a key role.

In this context, “Textile heritage – from the Wooden loOm Weaving to Digital ARt” (DARE2WOW) brings together 7 centres from 6 countries from all over Europe (An adult education centre from Spain, a women’s club of weavers from Latvia, two vocational centres from Italy specialized in fashion and graphic arts, an applied arts centre from Bulgaria, a website and web application development specialist from the UK, and an NGO from Greece helping people with disabilities, mainly through sports) to support the development, transfer and implementation of innovative practices within the partnering organizations and Europe by implementing the project’s joint initiatives that promote cooperation, peer learning and the exchange of experience at European level in the area of textile production and exploitation.

There is a need for a more flexible learning process – one that uses the innovative access to new technologies and peer-learning opportunities opposite to any of the few existing laborious and increasingly demanding educational programmes of the formal education that stress on complexity and difficult terms with little connection to the two subject – manual work and digital capability.

“Textile heritage – from the Wooden loOm Weaving to the Digital ARt” (DARE2WOW) project proposes a flexible and collaborative method, processes and tools for adults to increase their skill, knowledge and insights at their own pace and within their own understanding. The project promotes and strengthens the European cooperation while designing and piloting a new model, new tools and a new virtual platform between the partnering institutions but also for free access to all stakeholders to learn, develop and create a new understanding of the textile industry where technology, globalization and ecology are part of their textile production and exploitation. This will also be a space for discussing, trying and learning along the new concepts that could potentially improve one’s life and bring prosperity and wellness while keeping eyes on the objectives, learning from others’ experience and stimulating reflectivity on the possibilities that are out there when finding its place within the large textile industry. The project creates a tool for finding the best possible partners when looking for courses for adults, as well as a place for networking, sharing experiences, information and best practices.

The project implementation is based on common activities: conducting four transnational meetings attended by representatives and experts from the participating countries; developing research and analysis on the methods used by the formal and in-formal education for adults in the participating country – shared experiences and case studies of good practice; developing a training module based on the Curriculum for Adult Education, then bringing it into practice in workshops in every country and jointly contributing to a dissemination event by means of a reading club. The project derives from the experiences and actual needs distinguished in the partnering organizations, to develop an adult educational tool that as such exploits the project’s results directly during its implementation. Thus, the final result is to offer its beneficiaries an innovative tool that is well equipped to be directly applied in everyday life, starting from the era of digital art and going back to the way of the wooden-loom weaving.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 105954 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro de Educacion e Promocion de Adultos de Ourense & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Biedriba “Islices sieviesu klubs “Ritausma””
• Bulgara Centre for Development
• Istituto professionale statale per i servizi aziendali, turistici, grafici, sociali e alberghieri L.Cossa
• Sisu Consulting Ltd
• AETOI THESSALONIKIS
• IPSIA Luigi Cremona Pavia