FT ALLIANCE MISSION

FTalliance is a 3-year academia-industries partnership aimed to facilitate the exchange, flow of knowledge and co-creation within the Fashion-Tech sector to boost students’ employability and innovation potential. The objectives of the project will be achieved through a series of knowledge exchange activities aimed at fine tuning a multidisciplinary Fashion-Tech curriculum integrating fashion, design and engineering with industry relevant challenges through open innovation and project-based learning methodologies.

In addition, the project is aimed at designing and piloting innovative mentoring formats for students and at developing Fashion-Tech Contest and Residency to co-create new opportunities and foster a portfolio of innovative concepts and products prototypes.

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THE CONSORTIUM

The consortium comprises
12 partners and 1 associate
from 6 Programme Countries

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5 Fashion, design,
engineering HEIs

1 Leading large fashion and
apparel enterprises

5 SMEs representing the
Fashion-Tech ecosystem

1 Research Technology
Organisation

1 Associate
Large Enterprise

PROJECT ACTIVITIES

Over the next three years, the Consortium will deliver a series of knowledge exchange activities between partners to co-create innovation in the Fashion-Tech sector, and a series of educational activities, from designing and piloting innovative mentoring formats for students to the development of a FashionTech Residency, embedding young talents in the companies’ innovation activities.

Knowledge Exchange

It consists of a series of interactive workshops, aimed at fostering the knowledge exchange between HEIs and companies, in order to evaluate the state of the art of current Fashion-Tech curricula, employability profiles within European HEIs in relation to industry relevance and build Fashion-Tech job profiles.

Learning Experience

Educational experiences aimed to satisfy the expected level of expertise to access the Fashion-Tech sector. The learning modules will be tested through a series of 3 workshops with students and lecturers from the partners including industry professionals, focusing on smart-textile, wearable and digital manufacturing.

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Residency

The programme will last 6 months with the aim of co-creating opportunities between students and companies through a contest. The purpose is to generate innovation through a multidisciplinary exchange between the creativity of young international talents and the know-how, tools and prototyping facilities of the host company.

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Transition in the Global Fashion System

Digital Event

Date: 10-11 November 2020

Having moved its regular 36th World Fashion Convention from November 2020 to June 7-9 2021, IAF organised a digital pre-convention event in November 2020 where prominent speakers from the IAF member network representing a wide range of supply chain links (brands, producers, technology solution providers, educators and NGOs) shared their vision on the theme “Transition in the Global Fashion System”.

During these two days, IAF also hosted four online sessions on topics strongly related to the ‘transition’ theme and we were lucky to lead Session 1 and present our FT Alliance Project to the audience. This session was an exchange of ideas about the interaction between fashion companies and fashion educators in the face of rapid technological change.

For more info about this session or to watch the recording, please visit the IAF website.