- Online learning platform for sustainable textile and footwear production (in English, Spanish, Slovenian, Italian and Polish): click here to acess the platform
“Ecotextyle” is a 24-month European project funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme, the aim of which is to train employees in the textile and footwear sectors in sustainable production. Coordinated in Spain by the Footwear Technology Centre (CTR) in La Rioja and Neo Sapiens, it has the collaboration of organisations and universities in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom.
During the event, special attention will be paid to small and medium-sized enterprises and also to training centres in which the PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) methodology will be implemented in line with future European policies. The idea is to work together and exchange best practices related to the training of workers responsible for environmental product management within SMEs and to provide them with the necessary skills and competences for an adequate development of their professional profiles (at local or international level). To achieve this, the partners organisations of the project will create an online platform from which the different courses will be offered virtually, but there will also be face-to-face workshops in different languages, dealing with aspects such as product life cycle analysis, eco-design, carbon footprint, environmental labelling, environmental product declaration, etc. The “Ecotextyle” project will therefore provide producers in the textile and footwear sector with the necessary training and self-assessment tools to launch more environmentally friendly products on the market through more sustainable processes.
Thanks to this transnational collaboration between the countries involved in the project, different exercises, contents and products will be developed, tested and edited in cooperation with managers of non-profit and private entities of the textile and footwear sector, which will later be adapted to their realities and contexts. For more information on the objectives, timetable, activities and results or products developed during this project, please consult the sections at the bottom of this page.
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Dates: 01/10/2017 to 30/09/2019
Partner entities:
- To increase the use of non-formal education in second language learning and teaching for adults.
- To develop educational materials adapted to immigrants living in the communities participating in the project.
- To foster mutual learning among professionals working in language teaching for adult migrants.
- To promote networking at local and European level between organisations involved in intercultural education for migrants.
- To contribute to the visibility of European programmes aimed at funding transnational partnerships for education and social integration.
- Preparation of the project (October to November 2017).
- Meetings and working teams to prepare the intellectual material to be developed (November to December 2017).
- First transnational coordination meeting in Spain (January 2018).
- Creation and design of intellectual material both theoretical and practical and its adaptation to the online platform (January to June 2018).
- Second transnational coordination meeting in the UK (June 2018).
- Adaptations and improvements of the intellectual material by adding it to the online platform (June to October 2018).
- Third transnational coordination meeting in Poland (October 2018).
- Testing of the online platform and local workshops to monitor the learning of the training beneficiaries (November 2018 to March 2019).
- Study of the results obtained in the local workshops and the testing period of the platform (February to March 2019).
- Fourth transnational coordination meeting in Slovenia (March 2019).
- Improvement of the intellectual material and final editing (April to June 2019).
- Impact study of the results of the online platform on the entities and beneficiaries of the project (May to June 2019).
- Multiplier events in the project partner countries to disseminate the results of the project (June to July 2019).
- Online learning platform for sustainable footwear and textile production (in English, Spanish, Slovenian, Italian and Polish): click here to access the plaform
