Meet the Partnership
HÖGSKOLAN I BORÅS
Sweden
The University of Borås (HB) is a multidisciplinary university that conducts research and education within Textile and Fashion, Business & IT, Integrated Caring Science, Library and Information Science, Resource Recovery, and teacher education. It currently has approximately 11 000 students and 730 employees. HB is the only educational institution in Sweden that has a clear and explicit profile towards textiles and fashion and carries a national responsibility through its department of Swedish School of Textiles.
The Swedish School of Textiles has an overall strategy to strengthen the three areas of design, technology and management. It is located at the heart of the globally highly successful Swedish fashion industry. The research area is mainly developed through the investment in Smart Textiles, Re:textile and Innovation Square. The strategic research idea behind Smart Textiles is to develop business-led development projects and experimental research in the areas of textile material technology, interaction design and management. Re:textile goals are similar with focus on co-development of circular business models and design methods. Close to the Re:textile project are the innovation projects, like such for digitalizing the textile value chain. Innovation Square’s aim is to develop industry-led projects with focus on circular economies for design and furniture.
The University of Boras has also free-standing courses where many are related to re-skilling that industry professionals can take whereas many other courses are also for new comers in the field. The Swedish School of Textiles is located in Textile Fashion Centre Cluster, which offers the facilities and resources together with Marketplace Borås and Incubator Borås in collaborating with local large corporations and SMEs in fashion, logistics, and retail. All these results in HB being given the responsibility to host a national platform for sustainable fashion. The Swedish School of Textiles is also a member of leading international networks in textile and fashion, e.g. AUTEX, IFFTI, EURATEX.
KAINOTOMIA & SIA EE
Greece
KAINOTOMIA is a certified under Greek Legislation Vocational Education and Training Institution that was founded in 2013 by a group of people with expertise and a lifelong commitment to the subject of learning. The organization’s modern facilities are designed in compliance with disabled people’s accessibility, while there are 3 training rooms with a total capacity of 91 trainees.
The goal of KAINOTOMIA is the implementation of continuous vocational training programs (offline & online through their e-learning platform) targeted at employed/unemployed people, educators, students of higher education, and vulnerable social groups for the development of professional opportunities and their integration into the labor market and society. They provide Career Guidance and Counseling with regional stakeholder networks and according to individual needs.
KAINOTOMIA’s goal is the support of trainees aiming to introduce new learning and teaching methodologies approaches, especially those delivering key competences and basic skills, language skills, and focusing on the use of ICT, but also the upscaling of the quality of education in professionalization of trainers. Finally, provides trainees´ with new forms of flexible learning methods, virtual mobility, open educational resources, and better exploitation of the ICT potential.
KAINOTOMIA aims to up/reskill trainees through mobility in other EU member states to bolster cooperation with other countries of EU, and volunteering as an expression of an intercultural dimension. KAINOTOMIA plays a leading role at national and regional level and holds extensive experience in both methodology development of practical solutions matching specific vocational and professional development needs.
MARKEUT SKILLS SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
Spain
MEUS is a private organization based in Valencia, Spain, aimed at bettering people´s capacities in their environment, both at professional and private levels. Thus, it focuses on skills’ development of individuals at each stage of their life, from school to adult education. In line with the European strategy related to education, MEUS works on the development of new training materials and methodologies adapted to different target and market needs, thus improving the integration in the labour market.
MEUS is an expert in new learning methods, based on participative and collaborative ways of learning. Their training activities rely on experiential training, learning by doing and gamification, intending to keep the learners alert so that they can entertainingly learn new competences.
LOTTOZERO SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE
Italy
Lottozero is an international center for textile design, art, and culture based in the historical Prato textile district and cluster. They operate both as a consultancy studio and as a creative hub, divided into a gallery/exhibition area, a shared studio space/coworking, and a fully equipped textile lab for production, experimentation, and research. Its extensive knowledge is complemented by the expertise and production capacity of the historical textile district and a widespread and reliable network of excellent creative collaborators that have been scouted all over the world. Its in-house textile laboratories allow for constant experimentation, creation, and prototyping of new ideas, to continuously design and develop innovative concepts for internal or external use.
Lottozero has created a direct channel between designers and manufacturers and fosters and facilitates the communication and relationship between these actors to fundamentally innovate past production processes, thus helping create more evolved use of the technological opportunities existing in most manufacturing plants and creates a more sustainable fashion paradigm through the collaboration of local designers with local producers.
CHAMBRE OFFICIELLE DE COMMERCE D'ESPAGNE EN BELGIQUE ET AU LUXEMBOURG
Belgium & Luxembourg
The Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and Luxembourg is a non-profit association founded in Brussels in 1938, according to Belgian private law. The Chamber plays a significant role in trade and economic relations between Spain, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and its main objective is the development of trade and investments between these three countries. The Chamber is publicly recognised as one of the most prestigious dialogue tribunes between companies and European Institutions, based in Brussels and Luxembourg. The Chamber is part of the Federation of Spanish Chambers of Commerce in Europe-Africa-Asia-Oceania (FEDECOM) and maintains a permanent link with the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, which provides its members the ability to benefit from its worldwide network.
The Chamber is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Industry and Commerce, counts with more than 300 associated companies & entrepreneurs, and offers a wide range of services to both member & non-member companies, including information and support, legal and fiscal assistance, promotion opportunities, commercial activities, and networking events. In particular, the Chamber facilitates business through a wide range of commercial services and provides essential logistical and technical support. Its events enable companies to develop and expand their network of professional contacts and provide essential information on the Belgian, Luxembourgish, and Spanish markets. Finally, the Chamber has wide experience in managing training, employment, and entrepreneurship programmes.
LLC "CIVITTA UKRAINE"
Ukraine
CIVITTA (Ukraine) is the leading management consulting firm in the region, whose founders are entrepreneurs. Started as an alliance of advisory firms in the Baltic States, and headquartered in Estonia, CIVITTA is now the leading management consultancy from Central Eastern Europe. Our consultants support companies interested in and operating in over 40 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, resulting in more than 10,000 completed projects.
CIVITTA challenges the traditional management consulting industry, providing high-quality fact-based and analytically rigorous consulting services to all clients at a reasonable price. Innovation and entrepreneurship support is one of the core activities of the company. Since its establishment, CIVITTA has been actively involved in start-up consulting, and entrepreneurship support programme development contributing to the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Ukraine.
CIVITTA has been developing a concept of Innovation District to be created in Kyiv at VDNG, which is set to become a leading cultural and innovation centre of Ukraine.