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 project starts with 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. A learning process format will be designed through the creation of educational experiences aimed to satisfy the competences/skills needed to support the competitive growth of the Fashion-Tech industry. Secondly, the project is aimed at designing and piloting innovative mentoring formats for students. Workshops will be launched in the form of challenged-based design activities to boost creative encounters within the framework of a number of industry briefs, allowing beneficial and reciprocal exchanges between the student participants and companies. Lastly the project explores the development of a Fashion-Tech Residency and co-creation opportunities to foster innovative concept development and products prototypes. The residencies have the objective of generating an hands on pedagogical model embedding students in company innovation activities. The selected students will have the opportunity to develop their projects through coaching opportunities provided by the host company. At the end of the Residency period, FTalliance will deliver a portfolio of developed projects. The consortium comprises 12 partners from 6 Programme Countries: 5 fashion, design, engineering HEIs, 2 leading large fashion and apparel enterprises, 4 SMEs representing the Fashion-Tech ecosystem and the different supply chain segments and 1 Research Technology Organisation.
The project presents the following relevant objectives: (i) support knowledge exchange for innovation and creativity among Fashion-Tech stakeholders, (ii) enhance the quality and relevance of students’ knowledge and skills to boost their innovation potential and employability, (iii) generate open, innovative, and continuing education practices and programmes by boosting the HEIs-Companies collaboration within interdisciplinary educational experiences at the HEIs and Residencies at the Industry.
FTalliance is a 3-year academia-industries partnership of a Fashion-Tech multidisciplinary consortium composed of 12 full and one associate partner from 6 Programme Countries covering different supply and value chain aspects. Being Fashion-Tech a fragmented sector involving heterogeneous professionals, disciplines, and competencies, FTalliance reflects this interdisciplinarity with the scope of outlining future job rules, educational approaches, and HEI-industry collaborations.
<< Background >> FTalliance is a 3-year academia-industries partnership of a Fashion-Tech multidisciplinary consortium composed of 12 full and one associate partner from 6 Programme Countries covering different supply and value chain aspects. Being Fashion-Tech a fragmented sector involving heterogeneous professionals, disciplines, and competencies, FTalliance reflects this interdisciplinarity with the scope of outlining future job rules, educational approaches, and HEI-industry collaborations. << Objectives >> The project presents the following relevant objectives: (i) support knowledge exchange for innovation and creativity among Fashion-Tech stakeholders, (ii) enhance the quality and relevance of students’ knowledge and skills to boost their innovation potential and employability, (iii) generate open, innovative, and continuing education practices and programmes by boosting the HEIs-Companies collaboration within interdisciplinary educational experiences at the HEIs and Residencies at the Industry. << Implementation >> The project started with a series of knowledge exchange activities (WP1) aimed at fine-tuning a Fashion-tech curriculum based on an innovative educational model to be piloted in interdisciplinary learning experiences (WP2) and Fashion-Tech Residency (WP3). Results have been communicated and disseminated (WP5) through the FTall website and social media, webinar, conferences, and events to support the competitive growth of the Fashion-Tech sector. << Results >> The project achieved the following results: integrated industry relevant Fashion-Tech curriculum model; HEIs-Companies knowledge exchange; fashion-tech job profiles portfolio; 3 pilots of interdisciplinary and intersectoral learning experiences; 33 Open Educational Resources; 18 Fashion-Tech Residency programmes with resulting co-creation prototypes of Students-companies collaboration; 1 report about the learning experiences evaluation; 1 sustainability plan and communication tools and events.