Consortium
Next Technology Tecnotessile Societa Nazionale di Ricerca R L
Prato, Italy.
About us
Next Technology Tecnotessile (NTT) is a national research company established in 1972; its capital is shared among 35 partners, both public (Ministry of University and Research) and private (textile, textile machinery, and industrial software Italian companies). NTT has a wide network of businesses with private industries, providing them with technological and advanced services. It represents a reference point for research and technological innovation in the textile and textile machinery sectors.
Since 2011, NTT has been the leading managing body of OTIR2020 – Tuscany Fashion Cluster, a cluster organisation, working in key fashion sectors of the Tuscan manufacturing economy. OTIR2020 – TFC principal aims: the operational support in the innovation process and technology transfer in favour of local companies, the technical assistance and support for the development of new R&D-based projects.
Role in the project
Next Technology Tecnotessile is the partner in charge of WP2 – Mapping the state of the art and trends for the project (Data Mapping & transference).
The WP2 will provide mapping and analysis of the state of the art of textile and material innovation and the technologies and digital tools for textiles and fashion design sectors for an industry 4.0 transition. It will investigate the market and professional needs and create three training profiles for future “change agents” (HEI, VET, and Professionals), identifying knowledge, skills, and learning outcomes for each training profile.
In addition, WP2 will map the collaboration opportunities driven by the industry’s circular and digital transition change.
The information gathered and the analyses made within WP2 will represent the key information and the basis of the implementation of the project activities.
Entity’s website: https://www.tecnotex.it/en/
Contact name in the project: Enrico Venturini
Email address: services@tecnotex.it
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nexttechnologytecnotessile/
Fundació Privada Elisava Escola Universitària
Barcelona, Spain.
About us
Elisava Research is the R&D department of ELISAVA, with more than 50 years of promoting and training in design methods as an innovation factor. The school has always been working closely with industry professionals and companies. The main aim is to help build an innovative, ethical, sustainable and healthy society via research through design and engineering and making research about what role do design and engineering have in responding to present and future challenges. As a research group, ELISAVA Research is an innovation driver whose objective in the partnership is to bring innovation in current academic and industrial fashion and textile sectors, using design and engineering as a tool.
Role in the project
ELISAVA Research Team is the coordinator of the Transitions´ project ensuring and supporting the collaborative work among partner as well as monitoring the quality indicators to achieve the objectives with all partners. As coordinators of the Transitions project, our goal is to promote active collaboration and exchange of expertise and skills among academia, the textile and fashion industry, and the community to contribute to the transition towards a more sustainable, digital, and entrepreneurial textile and fashion ecosystem.
Entity’s website: https://research.elisava.net/
Contact name in the project: Marina Castan (PI)
Email address: mcastan@elisava.net
LinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/school/elisava/
Agrupació Catalana del Textil i de la Moda
Barcelona, Spain.
About us
Modacc is the Catalan Fashion Cluster; an association focused on improving the competitiveness of companies in Catalonia’s textile and fashion ecosystem. The main instruments we use to boost the competitiveness of those companies are technological and non-technological innovation, internationalisation, specialised training and networking. We encourage individual and group projects from this ecosystem mentioned above.
We associate 150 companies representing 20.155 professionals and 2.700 million euros aggregate turnover.
Role in the project
Modacc is the leader of WP6, with the objective to deliver a communication and dissemination strategy to properly reach the different target groups, and carry-on the dissemination planned actions in an effective manner.
Cluster culture and know-how, SMEs and Large companies’ network, transnational network, R&D in the textile field. Support for implementing the activities involving companies (surveys, events, dissemination, etc.). Transnational network.
Entity’s website: https://modacc.cat/
Contact name in the project: David García Uslé
Email address: dgarcia@modacc.cat
Citta Studi SPA
Biella, Italy.
About us
Città Studi is one of the most important industrial, cultural centres in Italy. It was founded on the initiative of local institutions and business associations in order to promote the technical and scientific development of the industry of Biella. It is an instrumental body of the Bank Foundation “Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella”. The Higher Training Center of Città Studi represents one of the most important centres of industrial culture in Italy. Its 100.000 square meters include:
- a University branch;
- an Agency for Professional Training accredited by the Piedmont Region and certified ISO 9.000;
- a Congress Centre and a Specialized Library;
- an area of Services, Research and Consultancy for individuals and Enterprises.
The mission of Città Studi is to:
- represent an “integrated structure” to meet the needs of the Territory with regard to: training, research and dissemination of technological innovation;
- be recognized as the reference point for the educational, cultural and scientific activities of the Territory, while striving for the best results and environmental conditions;
- represent the place which supplies and disseminates continuing education and training;
- ensure access to an international research network;
- develop the university dimension by pursuing the image of a place that stands out for its quality and effectiveness;
Città Studi is also the coordinator of Po.in.tex, the Textile Innovation Cluster based in Piemonte. Po.in.tex was established in 2009 with the Regional Government as a network of Enterprises and Research Centers. It has 104 members (98 companies, 3 research bodies and 3 associations/foundations), and it aims to support companies in technology transfer, access to funding, partner research, internationalization, research and innovation.
Role in the project
Citta Studi is the leader of work package 4 (Curriculum Design & Development) with the objective to set up an innovative training program, define the standards of active pedagogy based on design transition processes and Lean methodologies, and design the guidelines to set up the initial Transitions Labs locally.
Città Studi is also working for the design and implementation of the Transitions Labs and for the dissemination of the project.
Entity’s website: https://www.cittastudi.org/
Contact name in the project: Paola Fontana
Email address: paola.fontana@cittastudi.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/citta-studi-biella
New Order of Fashion
Eindhoven, Netherlands.
About us
New Order of Fashion empowers the next generation of fashion designers to lead the charge toward a regenerative fashion industry. Recognizing that over 80% of a garment’s impact is shaped during its design, NOOF guides emerging talents to make eco-conscious choices at this crucial stage. Together, we lay the foundation for an alternative fashion system, shaping a fashion future that’s planet-friendly and positively disruptive.
Role in the project
Leverage the knowledge and expertise of our research lab, network and talent platform to contribute to the transition towards a more sustainable, digital, and entrepreneurial textile and fashion ecosystem as well as assist in the accessibility, transparency and dissemination of the Transitions project’s progress and research results.
Entity’s website: https://www.neworderoffashion.com/
Contact name in the project: Anouk van der EL, Helen Milne
Email address: anouk@neworderoffashion.com helen@neworderoffashion.com
LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/company/new-order-of-fashion
Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain.
About us
Fab Lab Barcelona is part of the IAAC, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), a cutting-edge education and research center dedicated to the development of an architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in the construction of habitability in the early 21st century. Fab Lab Barcelona is actively working on research lines supporting the democratization of digital fabrication, the development of circular communities via systemic approaches, the emergence of new business models based on distributed design principles, new education models based on active learning, hands-on activities and distributed supports, such as Fabacademy and Fabricademy. Projects like Centrinno, Distributed Design Market Platform, Reflow, Siscode, Shemakes, TCBL are creating valuable knowledge in that field.
They bring their expertise in Transitions through the FabTextiles research and the postgraduate program Fabricademy Barcelona, Textile and Technology academy established since 2016, a professional training and hybrid educational program that combines digital fabrication, textiles and biology. The program explores the interrelation of human-technology environment through the notions of embodiment, materiality, ecodesign, biodesign, performance, smart textiles and digital fabrication.
Role in the project
IAAC is in charge of coordinating the Transition Labs, the pilots that test the curriculum with local stakeholders in the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Sweden. IAAC and Fab Lab Barcelona will share their current background which is based on the design and running of Fabricademy, a Textile & Technology Academy consisting of a transdisciplinary course that focuses on the development of new technologies applied in the textile industry, in its broad range of applications, from the fashion industry all the way to the upcoming wearable market. It trains students in the knowhow of systemic approaches, emergence of new business models based on distributed design principles, new education models based on active learning, hands-on activities and distributed support.
Fab Lab Barcelona will help to set up the various places of the Transition Labs and run several workshops onsite to facilitate the local appropriation of the program and its modules by local participants. This will be based on their experience in managing distributed pilots and their practical knowledge for fostering cooperation through hybrid and interorganizational educational programs.
The expected outcomes of TRANSITIONS are to:
- Create a modular training programme based on Industry 4.0 for a T&F new circular system.
- Set up innovation-focused training modules based on real practice and challenges (Transition Labs) to skill, reskill and upskill students and professionals
- Develop new ways to generate innovation in textile and design processes, production and commercialization.
Entity’s website: https://iaac.net/ https://fablabbcn.org/
Contact name in the project: Marion Real
Email address: marion@fablabbcn.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fab-lab-barcelona/
Stichting Hogeschool Van Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
About us
At the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), we educate tomorrow’s professionals in a wide array of fields and disciplines of higher education. With our distinct focus on applied sciences, the AUAS enables students, lecturers and researchers to develop cutting-edge – and practical – knowledge and innovations.
AUAS is a university dedicated to professional practice and home to more than 45,000 students from 180 nations. AUAS offers more than 96 degree programs along with professional doctorates and PhD’s in seven faculties. AUAS has more than 60 full-time research professors investigating the changing landscape of professional practice. With a distinct focus on applied sciences, the AUAS enables students, lecturers and researchers to address a real-life problem from the professional field and industry.
The research conducted at AUAS focuses on finding solutions to urban issues in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. Amsterdam is our Living Lab: Together with and for users we conduct applied research in 5 urban themes: Urban Vitality, Urban Management, Urban Technology, Urban Education, Creative Industries and Entrepreneurship. Practice-orientated research is an important component of the educational programs offered by our schools. AUAS is the largest university of applied sciences in the Netherlands and an important partner for public and private stakeholders in the larger Amsterdam region.
AUAS is a founding member of the Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance of European universities and universities of Applied Sciences (U!REKA).
Fashion Research & Technology research group
Within AUAS, the Fashion Research & Technology (FR&T) group involved in the Transitions project, is dedicated to scientific and artistic research into the many aspects of Fashion (Design, Branding, Business, Development, and Dress).
The FR&T group focuses on the application of new technologies and their consequences on everyday life. We take a wide view of fashion as the “things” worn on the body, including when your phone or your iPad is in your bag. We look at these “things” in other ways; when they are in the closet, the systems that make them, and new expressions of wearing.
Role in the project
AUAS is in charge of the WP 3 “Fashion meets Design by experimental workshops” to define the guidelines and contents to train from linear to circular systems, and mapping and testing scenarios through multidisciplinary workshops and learning practical methods.
Entity’s website: https://www.amsterdamuas.com/ and https://www.amsterdamuas.com/subsites/en/kc-fdmci/research-groups/fashion-research–technology/fashion-research-technology.html
Contact name in the project: Troy Nachtigall
Email address: t.r.nachtigall@hva.nl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/hogeschool-van-amsterdam/
Boras Kommun
Boras, Sweden.
About us
Borås is today the center for textile design in Sweden and Scandinavia and a reference for other European cities and regions. The School of Textiles and the Nordic Design School are Sweden’s leading schools for textile designers of the future. Borås’s position today as a trading town with very intensive foreign trade comes from the combination of traders and textile manufacturers. Borås is the Nordic mail order center with well-known companies such as Red Cats-Ellos, Cellbes, Gina Tricot, and H&M Rowells, and many millions of packages are sent from Borås every year. There is also the head office for many Swedish agencies and business chains in the clothing industry. They are the main reason why the region today has a more intensive foreign trade percentage than Hong Kong.
ACTE is a network of many municipalities all around Europe. The cities and territories associated all have a model of business development related to the textile and fashion sectors in common. The network also includes academies and other institutions related to the textile industry, as well as local development agencies and research programs in textile and design.
Role in the project
Textile and fashion knowhow, European SMEs and large companies’ network. Support for the implementation of the activities involving companies (surveys, events, dissemination, etc). BORÄS STAD will coordinate the Sweden sectoral network involved as well as involve and disseminate the project among the European association ACTE.
Entity’s website: https://www.boras.se/ https://acte.net/
Contact name in the project: Nelly Hayek
Email address: nelly.hayek@boras.se
Nordiska Textilakademin
Boras, Sweden.
About us
The aim of Nordic Textile Academy is to offer vocational training, providing the textile competence that the industry wants. The Proteko Foundation is the owner of the Nordic Textile Academy and continues to work on its mission to develop the textile industry. The Nordic Textile Academy has 30 years of experience in education and in developing the profitability of the Swedish textile businesses. The Nordic Textile Academy wants to highlight the development of the textile industry in Sweden, as well as the vocational training in the area, thus training employees who can contribute to the profitability of textile companies.
Role in the project
VET expertise and research-education-enterprises triangle knowledge and practice.
Connection with project partners for the construction of innovative teaching processes. Construction of the dedicated toolkit and definition of the didactic modules, including workshops.
Entity’s website: https://www.nordiskatextilakademin.se/
Contact name in the project: Ingrid Grankvist, Kerstin Syrén
Email address: ingrid@nordiskatextilakademin.se kerstin@nordiskatextilakademin.se
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/nordiskatextilakademin/
