Weaving Universities and Companies to Co-create Fashion-Tech Future Talents
In 28th May , 2020, the Consortium announces the kick-off of FTalliance, a three-year (2020 – 2022) Knowledge Alliance Project co-founded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union aimed to facilitate the exchange and flow of knowledge within the Fashion-Tech sector to boost students’ employability and innovation potential. The purpose of the Project is to ensure the ongoing innovation in the European Fashion-Tech sector by providing emerging talents with relevant competencies and know-how to enter the jobs market.
Fashion-Tech means new products, processes, tools and professional figures that come about as a result of cross-disciplinary approaches. To keep up with this emerging field, there is an increasing urgency for organisations to adapt and advance collaborative practices, to find ways to integrate new technologies into fashion and design.
In the long-term, the project aims at increasing the relevance, quality and impactfulness of Fashion-tech innovations and also at enhancing the competitivity of the European Fashion system at a global level revamping the industry through innovative practices.
The activity is aimed at fine tuning a multidisciplinary Fashion-Tech curriculum and integrating industrial relevant activities through open innovation methodologies, project and challenge based learning.
The activity involves students and companies in contests to boost creative encounters within the framework of a challenge rich in innovations allowing beneficial and reciprocal exchanges between the participants and companies.
Generate innovation and propose a model through a multidisciplinary exchange between the creativity of young international talents and the know-how, expertise, tools and channels of the host company.
The consortium comprises
12 partners from 6 and 1 associate
from 6 Programme Countries
Fashion, design, engineering HEIs
FSMEs representing Fashion-Tech ecosystem
Fashion and apparel
Research Technology 
Associate Large enterprise
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