European Project
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.
The consortium comprises
12 partners and 1 associate
from 6 Programme Countries
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lecturer and Knowledge Exchange Leader
Daniel Caulfield-Sriklad joined UAL's London College of Fashion in 2016 and works as lecturer and practitioner in communication design for fashion and Knowledge Exchange Leader for the School of Media and Communication.
The Virtual Dimension of Fashion Design
7 January - 8 March 2021
Summary presentation of research findings, along with a press release.
A a digital pre-convention event hosted by IAF.
10-11 November 2020
This one-day online event is taking place
as a part of the DigiMood EU Funded Project.
21 January 2021
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