Innovative design practices for achieving new textile circular sector - Design4Circle

Innovative design practices for achieving a new textile circular sector - Design4Circle under the Erasmus + Program in the Strategic Partnership in the field of vocational education and training, Call 2018 - Cooperation for innovation and exchange of Good Practices - Strategic Partnerships for Vocational Education and Training. The project is funded by the European Commission, with the duration from 01.12.2018 until 30.11.2020. The objective of Design4Circle is to create an innovative learning curriculum in line with the needs of designers of the textile and fashion industry towards a circular business model, being the main target group current and future fashion designers of the textile industry. Design4Circle will allow designers from the textile sector to reduce environmental impact during the product’s life-cycle, and to develop new and innovative businesses within the principles of circular economy. To reach the main objective, different activities will be carried out: 1. Analysis of current best practices and needs for ecodesign and implement circular business model in the textile sector 2. Joint Curriculum definition 3. Development of the training materials with different tools (texts, videos, photos, etc.) 4. Creation of an online MOOC platform to upload the training course and test validation In order to achieve such purposes, a Strategic Partnership has put 6 entities together from 6 different countries and expertise in the different fields of the proposed project: two Universities experts in textile design and technologies (RTU and TUIASI); one company expert in circular economy as new business model (ECORES); and three business associations and VET providers that cover different sectors of the textile industry and experts in ecodesign (TTA-TC, AMUEBLA and CTCP). The consortium will be completed with several associated partners (business associations, universities, VET authorities, etc.) that will be involved in different tasks and will ensure wide dissemination of the project results.