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Fit to Comfort – Skills Alliance for comfort & healthy footwear manufacturing - new qualification profile and innovative training opportunities

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The European footwear sector continues growing steadily, being responsible for the 4% of the worldwide footwear production, employing more than 260.000 people distributed by approximately 25.000 companies, mainly SMEs, adopting a development strategy based on higher quality of products and services, flexibility and short time to market, product differentiation and added value. Consumption will con ...
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Knowledge Platform for Transferring Research and Innovation in Footwear Manufacturing

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Knowledge 4Foot (K4F) project aims to contribute at fostering the excellence in training for footwear manufacturing by linking the three areas of education, research and business oriented innovation in order to demonstrate good practices of cooperation and to bridge the worlds of education and work. In order to achieve this aim, the project has following objectives: 1) to set-up a new Knowledge P ...
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Manager in an Efficient and Innovative Leather Company

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The leather industry, as a global industry, highly dependent on access to raw materials and to export markets, is in a quickly changing business environment, which is particularly challenging for SME-dominated sectors, as are the leather and leather related ones. In order to remain competitive, businesses must be able to adapt to changes. Shortage of raw materials, the globalisation of production, ...
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Adapt Production Schools Model to Attract Learners into Footwear Careers

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

LEARN2WORK project intends to create a bridge between the industry working opportunities and non-formal educational paths that can support youngsters (16-25 years) to get in contact with footwear industry careers, in order to work towards the appealing and attractiveness of this sector and consider it as a career option. To achieve this goal, the consortium will adapt and transfer the “Production ...
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High-end Shoe - Innovative Training for Luxury Footwear Manufacturing

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Europe represents 4% of the worldwide footwear production per year but has the highest average price worldwide, heading the list of Top 15 highest price. Europe maintains a tradition of footwear production, and a capital of knowledge throughout its institutions, schools, universities, which allows it to produce the highest quality footwear in the world. Thus, when it comes to the Top 10 most impor ...
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Pilot plant for environmentally friendly animal by-products industries (PILOT-ABP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

A by-product is defined as a secondary product obtained during the manufacture of a principal commodity. Animal by-products (ABPs) are materials of animal origin that people do not consume. Animal by-products represent a significant part of the biowaste stream and disposal options are limited and highly regulated. Over 20 million tons emerge annually from EU from slaughterhouses, plants producing ...
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Building a Sustainable Approach to the Dual Vocational Training System in Portugal, Spain and Germany

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The project main objective is to build a sustainable approach to the dual vocational training System in Portugal, Spain and Germany, applied to the footwear industry. We expect to transfer the actual referential that is the German Dual Training System and adapt it to the Portuguese and Spanish reality, focus on the footwear industry. In terms of the footwear industry the implementation in Germany ...
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Implementation of high grip designing tools (DEMOULTRAGRIP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Currently, sole manufacturers design their models to be anti-slip using basic design criteria, often relying on their intuition and previous experience. The problem resides in the lack of design tools that can be used in the conception of footwear, which will make prototyping much cheaper, quicker and more effective in creating an answer to the friction that the shoe will be subjected to when used ...
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Feature-Based Design and Modelling for Injection-molding Optimization (DES-MOLD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The main strategic objective of the Des-MOLD project is to reduce the cost of injection-moulding production by developing and validating a set of knowledge-based tools specifically oriented to mould makers and plastic injection companies, which will reduce the need for mock-ups of moulds, and several try-and-error trials to calibrate process control variables.A lot of effort has been put to study ...
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Materials, Components and Footwear with enhanced comfort properties based on nanotechnologies (NANOFOOT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

NANOFOOT main goal is to develop advanced and innovative nanotechnology based solutions for leathers and polymers components for footwear products, aiming a new sustainable and customer-driven production of consumer goods; where the health, environment, high quality of components, fair marketing communication and competitive sales price are combined to promote the competitiveness of the companies. ...
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Mediterranean Research Network on Footcare Sector (SOHEALTHY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Main objective of this initiative is to enhance cooperation between Morocco, Tunisia, Italy, United Kingdom and Spain on matters about the footcare sector, specifically about diabetic footcare, obese children and elderly people, by means of the creation of a network of technology cooperation.The project is focused on the societal challenge “Health, demographic change and wellbeing”, which the rese ...
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Smart tools for the Prescription of orthopaedic Insoles and Footwear (SMARTPIF)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The project is based on an identified market gap: podiatrists often lack knowledge and experimental data to decide which specific shoe-insole combination-and their corresponding materials-are suitable for a patient. The project aims at developing a set of computer tools to assist a podiatrist in achieving the best therapeutic prescription for a patient. SMARTPIF will provide them with a tool to ob ...
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Thin multilayered PVDF based piezo co-polymer for Textile Integrated Intelligent Wearable Self-sustained monitoring and safety applications in garment and footwear (TIIWS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Main objective of the Project is to integrate advanced polymers with piezoelectrical and electrostrictive properties in textiles, in order to develop advanced products, garments and footwear, to be applied for safety, sensing and monitoring applications. Project is based on the experience of the Partners involved in a comprehensive value-chain. S/T Objectives are related to the Polymer adaptati ...
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European Consumer Goods Research Initiative - Networking European Technology Platforms addressing Design-based Consumer Goods Industries and Related Research and Technology Fields (PROsumer.NET)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2013,

Health of people, safety of workers, sport performance, new cultures and lifestyles, customised fashion products will be drivers to promote European Consumer Goods on the global market, exploiting the European historical culture and knowledge on manufacturing processes and products as well as the proactive European consumer market, always looking for new frontiers in terms of comfort, satisfaction ...
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Smart robotics for high added value footwear industry (ROBOFOOT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Description Robots improving the shoe production processes Footwear production is still mainly handcrafted. Currently, opposite to other manufacturing sectors like automotive, food or metal processing, robots are still uncommon in the footwear industry. The introduction of robotics will contribute ...
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Development of a high grip designing tool (ULTRAGRIP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Due to strong competition from Asian countries encountered recently, footwear and flooring Manufacturers hope to achieve a high quality product with new performance in order to stand-out from the vast range of products that are currently available on the market. Increasingly important factors with regard to both footwear (professional and for everyday use) and floorings are safety and comfort. Ma ...
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SPECIAL SHOES MOVEMENT (SSHOES)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

This project addresses the development and demonstration of new sustainable production capabilities for diabetic feet and fashion high added value consumer-centred product concepts, such as footwear and insoles and the conception and definition of industrial paradigms and infrastructures which relate to the footwear industry, characterised by large numbers of traditional SMEs exposed to global com ...
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Framework of Integrated Technologies for User Centred Products (FIT4U)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Ongoing social and economic globalization processes will offer major challenges on the global market for consumer oriented manufacturing sectors. In particular, the shoes and gloves markets are expected to grow by more than 25% within the next 5 years, and the market niches for high value added shoes and gloves are expected to grow even faster. As a consequence there is today a unique opportunity ...
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IDEA-Foot: Innovative DEsign and mAnufacturing systems for small series production for European FOOTwear companies (IDEA-Foot)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The reference scenario for the IDEA-foot project is theEuropean SMEs working in the footwear industry and in particular in the market segment of classical and casual shoes. The global competition is asking for the reduction of Time to Market, increase of products diversification also with a small batch production while keeping a high fashion and quality content of the product. The actual design an ...
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INNOVATION, DINAMIZATION AND COMPETITIVITY IN THE FOOTWEAR SECTOR (INDICO)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

O projecto INDICO pretende impulsar a transferência da inovação no sector europeu do calçado do SUDOE. Trata-se de aportar soluções aos problemas com que se encontra o tecido empresarial, formado maioritariamente por PMEs. Estes problemas resumem-se na concentração da inovação nas zonas urbanas e mais povoadas em detrimento das zonas rurais e menos desenvolvidas e a desconexião das PMEs dos pólos ...
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SHOES-INNOVA — Nueva Herramienta de Aprendizaje para Crear valor en las PYMEs Europeas del Sector del Calzado

The European production of shoes and footwears is at risk of decline, due to the aggressive competition of China. The shelter is named “high quality and fashion” and must be forged through a robust injection of new tech in the products and processes.What should be possible only if the concerned SMEs and their workforce are prepared: i.e. if he SMEs are prepared to develop R&D and the workers to su ...
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