EUrFASHION: Establishing a Network for the Educati..
EUrFASHION: Establishing a Network for the Educational Fashion Line of Business to Improve the European Cooperation and Enhance Mobility
The inducement for this project is the realization that student mobility lags behind for the fashion and textile sector in education. This is due to the fact that this sector is a rather small branch. The ongoing mobility of students in this sector is based on a few semi-private contacts within VET schools at the moment, which do not fulfil the full range of necessary mobility partners. This illustrates the need for schools to have a stable network which is exclusively based on the fashion line of business in the European context. In the current fashion and textile industry globalization trends can clearly be seen. This has to do, on the one hand, with the growing competition that companies have to deal with. For that reason companies are forced to deliver more collections in a shorter period of time and they have to comply with the international market. This means, on the other hand, that companies have to reduce production costs and time which induces them to produce textiles in low-wage countries.In education this globalization trend of the fashion and textile industry is visible as well. Training courses in the fashion sector are dealing with internationalization in terms of work placements. Especially fashion students tend to go abroad in order to gain intercultural competences in their working environment.The main objective of this project is to improve mobility of both students and professionals at EU level for one specific sectoral environment, namely the fashion line of business, by establishing an efficient and sustainable network. The approach to build the network is based on the LdV project RECOMFOR. To facilitate the network two European reference profiles will be developed as a tool.The consortium of EUrFASHION is build from a triangular alliance of a school-related, a company-related (labour markt) and a sectoral (policy) organization. Within each partner country this triangle will create the sustainable foundation of the European partnership. Different parties from one country and therefore different perspectives of education and the working world of fashion is put together to create a network. The partners in the different countries are partners who already participated in previous LdV projects around a network in the trade sector or are experts on the fashion/textile line of business.The general outcome of EUrFASHION is a network that is determined with a network dossier to ensure its efficiency and sustainability. This network will be facilitated through two European reference profiles. With the help of a marketing plan and a training program the promotion and awareness raising will be monitored. The impact foreseen for this project is distinguished for the following target groups: students, companies and VET providers who will benefit from the network throughout Europe (shot-term impact). In the long term the target groups will benefit from a better gearing and more opportunities for Life Long Learning.
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