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The European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009
The European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 aims to raise awareness of the importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development; to disseminate good practices; to stimulate education and research, and to promote policy debate on related issues.
The Year aims to promote creative and innovative approaches in different sectors of human activity, from education to enterprise, from arts to science. While promoting the well-being of all individuals in society, the purpose of the Year is to contribute to better equipping the European Union for the challenges ahead in a globalised world. "The European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 will help to unlock Europe's creative and innovative potential, a task that has become even more important in times of economic crisis," said Jan Fígel, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Training and Youth.
The European Year of Creativity and Innovation is coordinated by the European Commission under the lead of the Directorate- General for Education and Culture in association with the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry. In each EU Member State, a national coordinator, usually a representative of the Ministry of Education, is responsible for the coordination of the implementation of the Year at a national level.
Links:
create2009.europa.eu
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TEXMEDIN Workshop "Textile and Clothing Heritage as a driver of innovation and source of inspiration"
24th - 25th September 2009, Athens - Greece
Next TEXMEDIN event is programmed for the 24th -25th September in Athens. The main theme of the workshop, focused on Component 3 “Integrated Knowledge-base” and organized by the Hellenic Clothing Industry Association, will deal with the potentialities of the Textile and Clothing heritage as a driver for the innovation and source of inspiration for new products with high value added in terms of design. The programme of the workshop is organized around three sessions: the 1st and 2nd session will regard the valorisation of the Textile and Clothing heritage by the Museums and the enterprises, through cases coming from Italy, Spain, France and Greece, whereas the 3rd session will introduce the theme of the Inspiring Lab, through examples of innovative facilities for heritage based inspiration.
On the 25th September the group will move on Nafplion where will be held the 2nd Steering Committee together with the visit to the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation.
Download:
 Workshop Agenda
 Texmedin Registration
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Open Days 2009 - European Week of Regions and Cities
5th-8th October 2009, Brussels - Belgium
The Open Days of the European Week of Regions and Cities 2009 will take place from 5-8 October in Brussels. As part of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the Open Days 2009 will focus, among other things, on how the innovative potential of the EU can best be developed at regional level. With increasing global economic challenges and uncertainty, Europe’s regions must become more inventive, react quicker and address global and environmental challenges by innovating more. The event is co-organised by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Regional Policy and the Committee of the Regions. More than 7,000 participants will come together for nearly 4 days of workshops, exhibitions and networking opportunities.
Links:
ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/od2009/index.cfm
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The 11th European Conference on Creativity & Innovation
28th-30th October 2009, Brussels - Belgium
Organised by the European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI), the theme of this conference is to focus on the implementation phase of the creative process. In short: Make it happen!
The 11th EACI conference: ECCI XI focuses on 'implementation'. Many conferences on creativity and innovation focus on diverging, exploring new methods and ways of working to be more creative, find ideas... this conference takes the challenge to reflect and debate the implementation part of the creative process. The conference theme is "Make it happen!” The programme has an academic part and a workshop part. The setup is based on the following pillars:
Concept & Convergence
Tools & Models
Results
Change & Market
Art
The main language will be English, yet there is also a separate stream in full French. All in all it looks like an exciting programme!
Links:
www.eccixi.eu
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MED Programme "Capitalization for running projects and Annual conference"
16 -17 November 2009, Naples - Italy
In the framework of the implementation of projects of the first call for proposals, a first event on the theme of Capitalization will be held in Naples on November the 16th for the 50 selected running projects. After an introduction on the term of “Capitalization” and its objectives, this day will proceed in the form of working groups in order to support a maximum of exchanges between project partners. An invitation will be sent very soon to those projects.
On the second day, it is programmed the annual of the conference of the MED Programme.
Download:
Draft Programme of MED Programme Annual Conference
MED Programme Annual Conference Registration form
Links:
www.programmemed.eu
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TEXMEDIN on MED Programme Annual Event
16-17 November 2009, Naples - Italy
The MED Programme Annual Event, organized by the Managing Authority and the Joint Technical Secretariat, was held in Naples on 16th and 17th of November. These two working days were the occasion for TEXMEDIN management team to meet and know other projects' staff and to successfully present the project activities to the general public.
On the first day, the workshop entitled „Thematic Poles – Capitalization on running projects“ was dedicated to MED projects approved on the 1st call.
The 50 projects approved in the 1st call have been splitted up into 5 working groups according their common features and objectives with the aim to implement and identify common synergies and shared capitalisation activities to ensure the dissemination and transferability of the results within the MED Programme.
The TEXMEDIN project took part and contributed to the Thematic Pole called „Exchanging strategies for fostering innovation and R&D in the Med area“ focusing on innovation ad research. With the support and facilitation of MED staff the working group identified some common capitalisation activities and strategies and proposed some creative solutions that have been reported to the MED Managing Authority and JTS and have been presented to the general public during the MED Programme Annual Conference.
The „European Transnational Cooperation MED programme Annual Conference“, on the second day,
gave an overview on Programme achievements and on its future activities. In this framework TEXMEDIN was one of the few projects invited to present its activities and experiences in terms of “Partnership”, “Deliverables”, “Main Streaming”, “Sustainability”, “Budget” and ”Transnationality”.
Furthermore TEXMEDIN had the chance to present its activities by a poster and to deliver project folders with brochures and newsletter in an exposition space - dedicated to projects communication materials - in the conference area.
Links:
www.texmedin.eu/multimedia_details.php?keymultimedia=11
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Texmedin 2nd Operative Meeting
02-04 December 2009, Lyon - France
The 2nd Operative Meeting of the TEXMEDIN project will be held in Lyon (France) from 2nd to 4th December. These working days will be accompanied with the Guided visit to the Textile Museum’s collection of Italian and Spanish textiles and of the exhibition “”le tissus dans tous ses sens”, exhibiting art works using technical textiles in the framework of the 2nd Biennale of contemporary textile creations. A visit to Town Hall is planned on Friday 4th, with the welcome speech of Nadine Gelas, V/Pte Grand Lyon.
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Exhibition "The Style of the Tsar"
Textile Museum of Prato, 10 September 2009 - 10 January 2010
At the Prato Textile Museum, "The Style of the Tsar. Italian and Russian art and fashions between the 14th and the 18th century" exhibition brings together more than 130 paintings, costumes and fabrics from the leading museums in Russia - the Hermitage and the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin Museum in Moscow - as well as numerous Italian institutions, such as the museums of the Polo Museale Fiorentino.
The exhibition illustrates the origin and development of cultural, commercial and diplomatic relations between Italy and ancient Muscovy through the privileged channel of commerce of Italian textiles and luxury goods.
Links:
http://www.lostiledellozar.it/
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Exhibition "A LIFE IN BATIK. From the Sultan's palace to the villages of Java"
Textile Museum and Documentation Centre Terrassa, 1 December 2009 - 28 february 2010
On the island of Java in Indonesia, batik has been one of the arts of the court for centuries, carried out by the craftswomen who live in the mountain villages or the great rice plains. It is a compendium of popular and magical knowledge which feeds the arts of the palace and at the same time is ennobled by them.
The decorative motifs are full of mythological and cosmic symbols. In the region of Jogjakarta alone more than 1,400 are known. Among them are the four elements of the world and of man – earth, wind, fire and water – and the three levels of the Hindu Javanese universe: the heavens represented by the bird, the earth by the tree, and the underworld by the dragon.
The exhibition follows the Javanese notion of the three stages of life. Each stage These three stages, from conception to the afterlife, are always associated with a specific type of batik. The batiks have all been made especially for the exhibition.
A Life in Batik was created by Elizabeth Inandiak, and is a co-production of the CDMT, the Premià de Mar Print Museum and the Arenys de Mar Lace Museum.
Links:
http://www.cdmt.es/ENG/MUSEUENG/exposicions/exposicionsgeneral.htm
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TEXMEDIN 3rd Operative Meeting
2nd - 3rd February 2010, Prato - Italy
The 3rd Operative meeting will be held in Prato from 2nd to 3rd of February and will be the occasion for the partners to test the new TEXMEDIN Integrated Knowledge base and to discuss on management issues and on the Inspiring Lab Cluster for Innovation Component, in particular on the definition of the terms of the young designers and stylists contest.
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Round table "Inspiring Lab: Textile heritage, industry and creativity"
4th February 2010, Prato - Italy
The round table “Inspiring Lab: Textile heritage, industry and creativity” - organized by the Municipality of Prato together with the Prato Textile Museum Foundation -will take place on 4th February in Prato.
The main intent of the meeting is to share the project ideas with the local stakeholders mostly regarding the Inspiring Lab Component in order to define and realize its services in a most efficient way. The encounter is meant to be a first of series occasions to bring together technicians, stylists, designers, enterprises, fashion schools, agencies for safeguarding and promotion of territory textiles and to gather comments and suggestions helpful for creation of innovative proposals in service to the textile district.
Download:
Meeting Agenda
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Starting 15th June 2010: TEXMEDIN Design Challenge
A a training course in the shape of a public contest titled “TEXMEDIN Design Challenge” addressed to European young designers and stylists will be launched in the framework of the TEXMEDIN project on 15th June 2010. The main objective of the contest will be the promotion of the T&A heritage of the partner’s territories and its reinterpretation in a creative way. The selected designers and stylists will benefit from the Inspiring Lab facilities, such as workshops, study sessions, training courses, tools for prototyping their ideas etc.
The contest will provide a unique opportunity to foster the design as a strategic element of competitiveness in the T&A sector and give visibility to young European talents as an inexhaustible creative resource and trend setter of the fashion system.
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TEXMEDIN 3rd Steering Committee and Study Visit
17th-18th March 2010, Carpi - Italy
The 3rd TEXMEDIN Steering Committee and Study Visit will be held in Carpi (Italy) from 17 to 18 March 2010. The working meeting will be an occasion to visit some of great textile and fashion collections of Emilia-Romagna region, such as Modateca Deanna and Gandini Collection. Modateca Deanna, gathers the 20th century Italian history of knitwear and fashion. With its 15.000 clothes samples as well as thousands of books, magazines and fashion accessories, it stands as a unique source for fashion and costume research. It takes its origin from the archives of knitwear company Miss Deanna, a leader in fashion industry born in Reggio Emilia in 1960.
The Gandini Collection, placed in the Modena Civic Arts Museum, comprises more than 2500 clothing and furniture textile samples from Italy and Europe from Middle Ages to 19th century. Donated by Count Luigi Alberto Gandini in 1881-1882, the collection offers among other a rich variety of velvets, wove, brocade, taffetas, embroidery, needle and fuselli laces and passementerie. The partners will also visit the Civic Museum of Carpi where the Steering Committee will be held.
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“ENDYESTHAI”: To Dress. Towards a Costume Culture Museum
Benaki Museum Athens, 23 March - 23 May 2010
The Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation is organising a costume exhibition to be held at the Benaki Museum next spring (March, 23-May, 23 2010)
entitled: "Endyesthai (To Dress) - Towards a Costume Culture Museum".
The scope of the exhibition is to display the Foundation’s important costume collection and to underline the necessity of creating a Costume Culture Museum in Greece.
The exhibition aims to present to the public a global consideration of the act of dressing and to examine it from as many different angles as possible.
The arrangement of the exhibits will follow two parallel and complementary concepts: the main one will show the evolution of dress, mainly in the West, from body painting in primitive cultures to the extravagances presented on modern catwalks. Parallel to this, there will be a series of smaller units, extensions of the main one, looking at costume from the point of view of its function: ceremonial garments, traditional costumes, uniforms, disposable garments, theatre costumes and so on.
Concurrently with the exhibition from 9 to 11 April, the Hellenic Costume Society and the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation will organize the International Costume Conference entitled “ENDYESTHAI (To Dress): Historical, sociological and methodological approaches”.
TEXMEDIN will also be present during the exhibition period. A space dedicated to the project with all the communication material will be a great opportunity to present TEXMEDIN to a wide range of public.
Download:
ENDYESTHAI”: To Dress. Towards a Costume Culture Museum
Links:
www.pli.gr
www.benaki.gr
www.costume.gr/conference/indexen.html
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IAF & TEXMEDIN Workshop "European T&C Heritage: A Resource for Creativity and Design"
15th June 2010, Paris - France
The workshop, organized by the TEXMEDIN project partners in collaboration with the International Apparel Federation (IAF), will bring together Textile & Fashion Museums from all over Europe in order to create a new space of cooperation among them and exploit technical and artistic synergies arising from the valorisation of the textile and fashion heritage they preserve.
Moreover, through the involvement of the Textile & Fashion Industry and Educational Institutions, the workshop will explore the possibility for new common actions and cooperation projects to support the future sustainability of the project.
The workshop will also provide the occasion to present the TEXMEDIN Project, its T&A Digital Library, the Inspiring Lab and the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge contest to a very significant and qualified audience as a best practice of Mediterranean cluster for the valorisation of the T&A Heritage as a driver of innovation and inspiration source for high added value products.
On this occasion, the TEXMEDIN partners will launch – at national and international level - a contest dedicated to young European designers titled “TEXMEDIN Design Challenge: Back to Heritage, Straight to Future!”
Download:
Programme
Registration form
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MED Programme Annual Event
22nd - 23rd September 2010, Thessaloniki - Greece
The annual event of the MED Programme will be held in Thessaloniki (Greece) coming 22nd and 23rd of September. The first part of the event will be dedicated to the Co-operation with IPA countries of the Balkans and will give a state of the art on the current situation, the perspectives for Cooperation for this area and learnings from the participation of potential candidates countries in the MED Programme. After a state of the art of the programme implementation and foreseen coming steps, the conference will present best practices in the fields of innovation, Territorial development, environment and accessibility in the plenary session and a project exhibition.
Through the animation of two round tables on the Cooperation in the Mediterranean towards 2020, the event will bring the first reflections on the future of Cooperation for the Mediterranean and the MED space as well as on the added-value of the strategic projects for the area.
Download:
Agenda
Registration form
Links:
www.programmemed.eu
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TEXMEDIN Digital Library
The TEXMEDIN Digital Library brings together in an ICT platform the most representative elements of the textile and apparel collections detained in the archives of textile and fashion museums and enterprises. At present, it contains nearly 800 items - new items will be added in the near future - coming from the Textile Museum of Prato, Centre of Documentation and Textile Museum of Terrassa, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation and Carpiformazione.
The TEXMEDIN Digital Library is an innovative instrument linking each item to its cultural, social, historical and environmental information. It illustrates the evolution of technology and fashion in a certain period and territory and reveals how an item inspired a designer to create a new product. Information about new and advanced materials that can replace originally used ones and about modern environmentally friendly production technologies, regulations and legislation for consumer protection will also be available for a selection of items.
These features, combined with an effective search mechanism, a user friendly presentation screen and the possibility for the user to create his/her own theme by selecting different items that can be easily accessed each time the Digital Library is entered, will offer a viable tool to professionals looking for inspiration and creativity in the treasure house of the existing T&A heritage.
The Digital Library can be accessed without any restriction for both item searching and browsing.
Download:
Texmedin Digital Library brochure
Links:
www.texmedindigitalibrary.eu
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TEXMEDIN Design Challenge - DEADLINE POSTPONED UNTIL 30th September 2010
A few days before the official deadline of the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge the partners of the Project, driven by the success of the initiative and a great number of registered designers, decided to postpone the closure of the contest for another two weeks, until the 30th of September.
The calendar and deadlines of TEXMEDIN Design Challenge are listed hereafter:
Phase 1. Registration, presentation of works and selection
- Subscription to TEXMEDIN Design Challenge is possible from the 15th June 2010 to the 30th September, 2010
- The selection of participants to the five Inspiring Labs will take place by the 15th of September 2010.
Phase 2. Access to Inspiring Labs
- The access to the five Inspiring Labs for training, coaching and prototyping activities will take place in the time frame of about six months (October 2010 - March 2011).
Phase 3. Presentation of the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge project works:
- The final event and the exhibition will be held at the conclusion of the Inspiring Labs experience in a place to be determined, at the completion of the TEXMEDIN Project (between April and July 2011).
Links:
www.texmedin.eu/design_challenge
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TEXMEDIN 4th Steering Committee and Study Visit
14th-15th October 2010, Athens, Greece
The 4th TEXMEDIN Steering Committee and Study Visit will be held in Athens (Greece). In this occasion the partners will approve the final list of selected designers in the framework of the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge. The working meeting will be followed by visits to the Greek Folk Museum, Benaki Museum and the exhibition "Beyond Dress Codes: Contemporary Fashion Designers in dialogue with Traditional Greek Costume" organized by Athens' Hellenic American Union.
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MED Programme - Technical Seminar on First level Control
15th October 2010, Madrid, Spain
A technical seminar on first level control organised by the National Contact Point in Spain as well as by the JTS will be held in Madrid next 15th of October and in Naples next 18th of October.
Links:
http://www.programmemed.eu/en
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MED Programme - Technical Seminar on First level Control
18th October 2010, Naples, Italy
A technical seminar on first level control organised by the National Contact Point in Italy as well as by the JTS will be held in Naples next 18th of October.
Links:
http://www.programmemed.eu/en
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EUROTEX ID Project Final Conference and Exhibition "HERITAGE@work"
21 October 2010, Textile Museum of Prato - Italy
The aim of the closing conference of the Eurotex ID project is to examine the ways in which historic archives can be exploited in the creation of contemporary fashions and designs and to assess the added value brought to fashion design when collaboration between young designers and textile companies is seen as a creative resource for the development of new collections. The exhibition HERITAGE@work organized within the project will see the textiles and fashions created by the students of Escola Profissional Cenatex (Guimarães, PT) and Winchester School of Art (Winchester, UK) presented side by side with the items from the textile heritage by which they were inspired. The exhibition will remain open to the public until the closure of the project. The TEXMEDIN Project has been included in the conference agenda to present the Design Challenge, a contest for young designers closed the last 30th September and now in the evaluation phase.
Download:
Conference Agenda
Final Conference and HERITAGE@work Exhibition brochure
Links:
http://www.acte.net/eurotexid/
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ACTE sets cornerstone for an European Contest of Young Designers
Representatives of the competitions Badalona Moda, Riccione Moda Italia, Play Trend, Texmedin Design Challenge, Concurso de Jóvenes Diseñadores Andaluces (Cátedra Elio Berhanyer) and Moda Movie met on 22 September in Barcelona to set the cornerstone for the launch of an European Design Contest as of 2011.
This initiative responds to one of the strategic projects of ACTE aimed at creating a network of different competitions, organised by ACTE members to award young designers in Europe. The promotion of creative talents represents a key element to assure that the manufacturing DNA is not lost in European territories.
The new European Contest, which will celebrate its first edition in 2011, will be organised alternately in the framework of the regional competitions in order to guarantee the link between talent and territory. 3 winners of each participating competition might compete in the European Contest.
Links:
www.acte.net
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Europe INNOVA Conference
27-29 October 2010, Palais des Congrès, Liège - Belgium
The 3rd Europe INNOVA Conference is being organised by the Region of Wallonia in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union, in close collaboration with the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry. In the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the conference will address policy priorities for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and reflect on how innovation can support the transition towards a resource efficient and competitive economy.
Download:
Conference Leaflet
Links:
www.europe-innova.eu/
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TEXMEDIN Transnational Workshop
31st March 2011, Terrassa, Spain
The next TEXMEDIN event will be held in Terrassa on 31st March 2011 with the organization of a transnational Workshop “From Inspiration to Creation: Innovative Business Models for young Fashion Creatives” . The aim of the event is to present to the general public the educational experience of the Inspiring Labs as well as of opportunities for the creation of micro and small enterprises by young fashion designers at European level. After the closure of the workshop, the partners will have the chance to visit the exhibition "Futurotextiles" in Barcelona. The day after, on 1st of April, the 5th TEXMEDIN Steering Committee meeting will be held in Terrassa.
Download:
Workshop Agenda
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TEXMEDIN Design Challenge
The results of the first phase
At the 30th September deadline of the Design Challenge contest, the project partners have received 133 online registrations. More than 50 project works from all over Europe – also from Romania, Sweden, Netherland, Germany and Portugal - entered the selection phase: the Design Challenge Selection Committees evaluated them and choose the participants for the training activities in each Inspiring Lab. In the following months they will have the possibility to develop their project works with the support of experts, technicians, teachers and tutors as well as of the involved local companies.
At the completion of the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge, the best project works will be selected for an exhibition at the European level. Moreover, the candidates will have the opportunity to create a professional book of their project works with complete photographic documentation of prototypes, which will be financed by the TEXMEDIN Project.
The admitted participants to each Inspiring lab are:
Inspiring Lab Terrassa
CASTANYEIRA, MOISÉS
COLÁS, MIKEL
DE ORLANDIS, NATALIA
FERNÁNDEZ, VÍCTOR MANUEL
FERREIRO, KIRSA
GRACIA, ALBA
LARROTCHA, ANNA
LOZANO, BEATRIZ
SIROCHINSKY, TATIANA
SUÑER, FERRAN / MARTÍ, NÚRIA
TORROBA, LAURA
Inspiring Lab Prato
FARALLI FRANCESCA
FRISON CRISTINA
MATTEINI VALENTINA
MONTI CASSANDRA
PECCHI JESSICA
PIRAS SAMANTHA
PISANO ANNAMARIA
PUSKAS SAROLTA
SALOMONE STELLA
VANNUCCHI SERENA
Inspiring Lab Athens
AGALLIU KOSTANDINA
ALIFRAGKIS LOUKAS-ATHANASSIOS
GIANNAKAKI ATHINA
KALAITZIDOU SOPHIA
KORKODINOU EVIE
KOUSTOUMBARDI ZOI
LAMPROTHANASI OLGA
MOUSIOU PASHALINA
PALIOMPEI THOMAE
PANTZIOU NTIANA
PASCHOU AIKATERINI
SAMANIDOU ISMINI
SAMARAS GEORGIOS
STAMATOPOULOU KONSTANTINA
THEODORIDOY LOYLOYDA
Inspiring Lab Carpi
ALTINI DEBORA
ANTINORI FEDERICA
BARBIERI GIADA
BELLADONNA MARTINA
BIGNAMI FILIPPO
BORCIC KATARINA
BORELLINI GIULIA
BRACALI CHIARA
COPPI MARTINA
DI MURO GIUSEPPE DAVIDE
GUAITOLI GIADA
GUERRA DAVIDE
LEASAFRI HOUDA
MAMMARELLA LUCA
MANTOVANI MARIA VITTORIA
MEDICI ENRICA
MORELLINI GRETA
NARBONE CLAUDIA
ORSI MARGHERITA
ROSSI MARIKA
SCOGNAMIGLIO CHIARA
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Welcome Event for Designers Participating to the "Inspiring Lab of Terrassa"
19th November 2010, Terrassa - Spain
The event event to welcome the 12 young designers selected on the "Texmedin Desing Challenge" to participate in the activities of the "Inspiring Lab of Terrassa"
will take place in the Documentation Centre and Textile Museum. It will be presided by the Major of the City Council of Terrassa and Vice-president of ACTE Spain, Mr. Pere Navarro. The young designers will be the protagonists of the event, during which two relevant people related to the fashion and textile sector will give a short speech: the designer Mrs. Rosario Puñales, and the community manager of an important trademark of the shoe industry (Munich) Mr. Màrius Cirera.
Download:
Programme
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TEXMEDIN Project on DIRE&FARE 2010 Fair
17th-20th November 2010, Florence - Italy
The TEXMEDIN Project will particiapte on this year's fair for public administrations DIRE&FARE organized by ANCI Toscana and Tuscany Region. The fair will be held at Fortezza da Basso, Florence from 17th to 20th November 2010.
Links:
www.dire-fare.eu
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The Textile Samples of the Enterprises: A Heritage to Preserve
24th November 2010, Prato - Italy
In last decades of the crisis in textile districts all over Europe a great number of enterprises were shut down and often their historic production went lost. The TEXMEDIN partners from Prato organize the event together with the Order of Accountants and Auditors and CARIPRATO to tackle this issue. The meeting will bring together all local actors involved in detention and preservation of textile production in Prato textile district. The aim is to sensitize awareness about the importance of donating or making available the archives of the enterprises to the Textile Museum to preserve the textile heritage of Prato territory.
Download:
Programme
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DIRE&FARE 2010
The TEXMEDIN Project gets the Award “Città Ideale”
The TEXMEDIN Project gets the Award “Città Ideale” on this year’s fair DIRE&FARE, organized by ANCI Toscana and Tuscany Region. The prize, dedicated to public administrations, is assigned to the most innovative project presented at the fair. The lead partner, Municipality of Prato together with the Textile Museum of Prato were awarded for their capacity to “review the textile heritage in contemporary way with the aim to boost competitiveness of the territories involved”.
Links:
www.dire-fare.eu
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Countdown to the start of the Futurotextiles 3 tour
15th February 2011, Barcelona - Spain
As of 15th February, Barcelona will be the first city to start the tour of the exhibition Futurotextiles 3 within different ACTE member territories. Following the signature on 6th December 2010 of a memorandum of understanding between ACTE and lille3000, this exhibition will then be presented in: Córdoba (Spain, 2nd May -2nd June 2011), Prato (Italy, 30th September-13rd November) and Ronse (Belgium, 2nd December - 15th January 2012)
The exhibition is currently one of the strategic projects of ACTE. Futurotextiles interlinks science, technology and art with textiles. First organised in Lille (France) in 2006, this exhibition presents the general public the development and the potentials of the sector.
After the success of the exhibition Futurotextiles (2006) and Futurotextiles 08, lille3000 presents the new edition Futurotextiles 3: Surprising Textiles, Design and Art. It introduces the visitor the world of textile and its incredible diversity, offering also an artistic, recreational and poetic journey through the creations of important designers.
As of 15th February and until the 2nd April, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona will be the host of the exhibition in Barcelona. Placed in the ancient royal shipyards, this is one of the most visited museums of the city due to its situation, close to Las Ramblas and the port and its architecture.
Links:
www.acte.net/
www.lille3000.eu/lille3000/index.php
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European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing - Annual Conference
31st March - 1st April 2011, Brussels - Belgium
The conference’s working title is “Societal Challenges—Textile Solutions” and should showcase how innovative and to the general public often completely unknown textile-based products help finding solutions to major societal needs such as energy supply & efficiency, food & water supply & safety, affordable healthcare, sustainable cities & mobility etc. More details will follow shortly.
Links:
www.euratex.org
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ACTE General Assembly
31st March - 2nd April 2011, Barcelona - Spain
This General Assembly coincides with the presentation of the Commemorative Publication of the 20 years of ACTE, and the closing of Futurotextiles Exhibition in Barcelona. As the City of Terrassa and Municipality of Prato are active members of ACTE Association, this event will be the opportunity to disseminate the results of TEXMEDIN project to European textile communities.
Links:
www.acte.net
www.acte.net/futurotextiles/
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PLAY TREND Made in Cardato. Fashion & Design Contest - Deadline 15th July 2011
Organized by the Chambers of Commerce of Prato and Prato Textile Museum
PLAY TREND Made in Cardato is an international competition for young creatives which aims to highlight the potential of new generations of designers by supporting the use of Cardato regenerated co2 neutral (www.cardato.it), world’s first certified ‘zero emissions’ textile product.
PLAY►TREND Made in Cardato. Fashion&Design Contest will highlight the creative and productive resources of Prato traditional textile product by offering young designers from all over the world the chance to test their own talent creating items of fashion and design using “cardato” textile.
The event avails by the support of leading companies in Prato textile district which joined Cardato regenerated co2 neutral mark and by the collaboration of Consortium for the promotion and protection of “cardato” textiles.
A strong collaboration that points up the attention of textile companies involved to young designers universe in a perspective of exchange of creative ideas, know how and productivity tools.
The competition is open to young designers in the fashion and design, between 18 and 30 years old, still engaged in the study or already professionally active (employees, associates or freelance).
PLAY►TREND Made in Cardato. Fashion&Design Contest is addressed to worldwide most important Fashion and Design Institutes and Schools.
Given the cultural and educational value of the initiative we sincerely count on your kind cooperation in disseminating information about the contest among your contacts, teachers, students and alumni of the institute, supporting the participation to it.
Download:
Presentation of the Contest
Contest Rules
Links:
www.cardato.com/contest
www.Facebook.com/MadeinCardatoContest
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TEXMEDIN 5th Operative Meeting and Study Visit
20th - 22nd June 2011, Lyon - France
The next TEXMEDIN Operative Meeting and Study Visit will be held on 21st and 22nd June 2011 in Lyon. In conjunction with these two working days the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge Interregional Jury will meet to evaluate the prototypes and to proclaim the final winners. The jury will be composed of five members, one from each Inspiring Lab territory, as follows: Pere Moline – Fashion Designer (Terrassa), Vassilis Masselos – T&A Industry (Athens), Emanuela Contini – Fashion Marketing Expertise (Carpi), Juliana De Nicola – Fashion Blogger (Prato) and Nadine Gelas – Vice President of Grand Lyon. Check out for final winners at our project’s web site!
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Major Cities of Europe Annual Conference
23rd - 25th May 2011, Prato - Italy
The 2011 conference of the network "Major Cities of Europe" (www.majorcities.eu) will be held in Prato, from May 23rd at 2:00 pm to May 25th at 1:30 pm.
"Do more with less" is nowadays a key driver of Local Government initiatives across Europe: which initiatives can enable innovation and better services under the pressure of the economic situation that may affect decisions and the availability of the necessary budgets?
How digital and mobile technologies are offering a proven way to reshape the way public services are delivered to improve services with greater transparency, access and openness on reduced budgets.
Closely linked to the "Do more with less" theme is the theme of "Smart Cities".
While keeping strict control on their budgets Cities capable to implement their vision on how to be smart are the ones that will succeed in developing the economy, in making the life of citizens easy and pleasant in a sustainable environment.
This requires the capability to become "open", to collaborate with citizens and enterprises and to enable this approach by driving the necessary initiatives.
Download:
Agenda
Accompanyng person programme
Links:
www.majorcities.eu/
www.comune.prato.it/majorcities2011
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TEXMEDIN Design Challenge: winners of the competition selected in Lyon
On Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd June the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge - a European competition for young fashion talents aiming at enhancing the textile and clothing production in the Mediterranean countries participating in the European project TEXMEDIN - found its conclusion in Lyon.
An international jury gathered in the Gadagne Museum selected the best outfits, accessories and new fabrics among over sixty that made up the ensemble of projects delivered by the participants in the five TEXMEDIN Inspiring Labs. As a result of its evaluation the jury assigned four category prizes and one special mention.
The Prize for Excellence and overall winner of the contest - "for having been able to translate tradition and excellence of the past into contemporary creation" - was won by Ismini Samanidou, a young textile designer from Greece that created a fabric for interior design inspired by collections of Greek historical textiles and costumes.
The Innovation Award went to Luca Mammarella from Carpi for the creation of a thermal jacket combining technical fabric and traditional wool. The Award for the Valorization of the T&A Heritage was assigned to the young spanish designer Mikel Colas for his reinterpretation of traditional liturgical costumes. Finally, the Award for Industrial Feasibility was won by Natalia De Orlandis from Spain, for the realization of a complete costume inspired by the folk costumes from Greece.
The jury, composed by Pere Molinè, Fashion Designer from Terrassa (Spain), Vassilis Masselos, a member of the Greek textile and apparel industry (Athens), Emanuela Contini, an expert in Fashion Marketing (Carpi), Juliana De Nicola, Fashion Design Blogger (Prato) and Daniel Perret, manager of a French fashion company (Lyon), also assigned a Special Mention to a candidate from Prato - Valentina Matteini - who created a female outfit inspired both by Greek costumes from the previous century and by italian contemporary fabrics and stitches.
The TEXMEDIN Design Challenge winners will have the opportunity to create a professional book, created by professionals, for the presentation of their project and the developed prototype to potentially interested companies.
From September 2011 to February 2012, all the prototypes will be exhibited in an itinerant exhibition which will travel through the partner countries of the TEXMDIN Project. Lyon, Terrassa, Athens, Prato and Carpi will then be the headquarters of a live showcase of sixty young promises of the European textile and fashion industry.
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Design Challenge Finalists on ACTE's Young Designers Contest
22nd July 2011, Riccione - Italy
The three final winners of Design Challenge will have the opportunity to participate to the ACTE’s Young Designers Contest. The designers will have to present 2 outfits, the winning one from the Design Challenge competition, the other made specifically on theme selected by ACTE that for this year is “Sustainability”. The winner of this contest will get a scholarship for an educational internship in a company placed on the international market. The final fashion show will take place in Riccione (Italy) on 22nd of July, 2011 during the Riccione Italia Fashion Week 2011.
Links:
www.acte.net
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The TEXMEDIN Itinerant Exhibition - a showcase of sixty young promises of the European T&A industry
September 2011 - January 2012: Terrassa, Valencia, Athens, Prato, Lyon and Carpi
At the end of the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge experience, the prototypes created by young designers and stylists will be exhibited in an itinerant exhibition which will travel through the partner countries of the TEXMDIN Project. In detail:
SEPTEMBER 2011
Documentation Centre and Textile Museum of Terrassa
1st-15th September 2011
c/.Salmeron, 25
08222 - Terrassa (SPAIN)
www.cdmt.es
Fair HABITAT Valencia (Section NUDE)
20th-24th September 2011
Avda Fairs s/n
46035 - Valencia (SPAIN)
www.feriahabitatvalencia.com
OCTOBER 2011
Athens Fashion Week
TECHNOPOLIS GAZI
100, Pireos street
Athens (GREECE)
www.athens-fashion.gr
NOVEMBER 2011
Textile Museum of Prato
Via Santa Chiara 24
59100 Prato (ITALY)
www.museodeltessuto.it
Gadagne Museum – Photo exhibition of prototypes
1 Place du Petit Collège
69005 Lyon (FRANCE)
www.gadagne.musees.lyon.fr
DECEMBER 2011 – JANUARY 2012
Palazzo del Pio Museum
12th December 2011 - 15th January 2012
Piazza dei Martiri 68
41012 Carpi (ITALY)
Palazzo dei Pio Web Site
So Terrassa, Valencia, Athens, Prato, Lyon and Carpi will become the headquarters of a live showcase of sixty young promises of the European textile and fashion industry.
Nearly at the end of their experience, we can affirm that the Inspiring Labs, through their theoretical and practical training offered to young designers, played an important role in preparing the participants to enter the production stage: something that is not covered by the traditional training activities of existing fashion courses. Moreover thought them, the TEXMEDIN project succeed in actively linking young designers with important digitized and physical artefacts from the existing heritage museum collections, providing a platform for design inspirations to become final prototypes.
Download:
Terrassa and Valencia Brochure (En)
Terrassa and Valencia Brochure (Cat)
Terrassa and Valencia Brochure (Sp)
Inspiring Lab Brochure
Prato Brochure (Ita)
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FUTUROTEXTILES. SURPRISING TEXTILES, DESIGN & ART
30th September - 13th November 2011, Textile Museum of Prato
Futurotextiles combines science, technology and art to textile manufacturing universe destined to different productive areas such as architecture, biotechnology, medicine, sports, transportation and electronics up to the aerospace industry, offering a detailed overview on the latest developments in fibers and the most innovative applications of textiles outside the traditional world of fashion.
Organized in 2006 as part of Lille3000 events, the exhibition comes to Prato after being in Istanbul (2007), Bangkok (2009), Shanghai (2010), Barcelona and Cordoba (2011) thanks to the support of ACTE- European Textile Cities Association, TEXMEDIN Project and the contribution of the Tuscany Region.
The exhibition is organized in eight specific sections that want to present, with the support of informative materials, interactive spots and multimedia tools, the different applications and potential uses of tissues. Within the exhibition path are presented innovative proposals for the interior design (Hometex), futuristic creations of fashion designers (Clothtex), new composite textile materials created for transport sector (Mobiletex) and architectural "textile" projects (Buildtex), as well that protective fabrics (Protex) and ones used in agriculture and medicine (Geotex and Medtex).
Special features of this edition of the exhibition: the enhancement of high-tech fabrics developed by Prato textile district companies which made the Research in specialist areas their manufacturing excellence.
Links:
www.museodeltessuto.it/
www.acte.net
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9th European Week of Regions and Cities
10th - 13th October 2011, Brusseles
This year's Open Days will be held from 10th to 13th of October. The OPEN DAYS 2011 participants' registration will start in July, when the full programme will be made available online. 206 regions and cities from 27 Member States and eight third countries will take part in OPEN DAYS 2011. Organised in 23 regional partnerships, they will contribute with 24 workshops to the complete programme of more than 100 seminars taking place during the OPEN DAYS between 10 and 13 October. In addition, the Committee of the Regions will host some 35 workshops in the framework of the Meeting Place, most of which focusing on public-private partnerships.
Please check the event's website for further news and updates.
Links:
ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/od2011/index.cfm
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Save the date for this year's MED Programme event in Barcelona!
19th October 2011
On 19th October 2011, this year’s Med Programme’s event will be held in Barcelona, Spain in the Llotja del Mar(Chamber of Commerce), one of the most emblematic monuments of Barcelona. The programme event will offer manifold possibilities to meet and exchange, inform and learn, create and influence.
‘Smart growth’ became one of the most cited terms in the ongoing discussion on Europe 2020 presenting the EU's growth strategy for the coming decade. The smart growth strategy aims to improve the EU's performance in education, research/innovation and digital society.
The MED Programme event will offer the possibility to be informed about how the EU aims to boost smart growth and how Territorial Cooperation in the Mediterranean can contribute to reach this aim.
The event will also present to its participants an occasion to actively contribute to shape the upcoming targeted call on “innovation capacities” as well as the future MED Programme.
Links:
www.programmemed.eu
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TEXMEDIN Final Conference - THE CHALLENGES OF THE TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR: HERITAGE, INNOVATION, DESIGN
8th - 9th November 2011, Prato
The TEXMEDIN Final Conference will be held from 8th to 9th November in the Textile Museum of Prato.
The two working days will begin on 8th of November with the Workshop for exchange of experience between designers in the TEXMEDIN Design Challenge. After the workshop the participants will have the chance to attend to the opening of the TEXMEDIN exhibition of the prototypes entitled “Textile Heritage and Innovation: Creative Pathways in the Mediterranean Design”. The Conference, organized the day after, on 9th of November will be the opportunity to present the final results of the project , to share best practices and to stimulate debate on public policies to support the textile and clothing sector, the role of fashion and design for the preservation of heritage and the role of higher education as a basis for innovation.
Download:
TEXMEDIN Final Conference Agenda
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Med Programme Cluster and Capitalisation Day
30th November 2011, Marseilles
In 2011 the Med Programme started the realisation of a 3 years capitalisation process. During the last week of June 2011, four capitalisation workshops (one for each thematic priority) were carried out in Rome. This first round of workshops was an important starting point for sharing the capitalisation methodology. Moreover it proofed to be useful for exchanging on projects' capitalisation practices and approaches as well as on common problems and needs. Finally, the workshops resulted in first orientation for the definition of thematic clusters.
As a second step, a Cluster and Capitalisation day will be organised in Marseilles on 30th November2011.
Download:
Cluster and Capitalisation Day Agenda
Links:
www.programmemed.eu
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TEXMEDIN Conference - Research, Innovation and Creativity: The Challenges for the Fashion System
14th January 2012, Carpi
The Conference, organized by Carpiformazione will be held at Palazzo del Pio in Carpi. The conference attendees will also have the opportunity to visit the TEXMEDIN exhibition of prototypes that is making it's last stop in Carpi.
Download:
Conference agenda
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TEXMEDIN Workshop: Design and Talent
9th February 2012, Barcelona
The TEXMEDIN Workshop: "Design and Talent" will be held on 9th of February at Palau Robert in Barcelona. The partners of the project will also meet for their last steering committee meeting in order to organize the closure activities of the project.
Download:
Workshop Agenda
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MED Programme: Targeted call for project proposals on innovation/energy
The main objective of this targeted call is to better identify and strengthen innovation capacities of Mediterranean SMEs and support the implementation of innovative solutions for renewable energy and energy efficiency in Mediterranean cities.
This targeted call is dedicated to the first and second axis of the MED operational programme:
AXIS 1 of the MED Programme: "Strengthening innovation capacities", including the promotion of innovative technologies, know-how (objective 1.1.) as well as the strengthening of strategic cooperation between economic development actors and public authorities (objective 1.2.). Projects will have to make proposals to strengthen the position of SMEs in the energy sector in Mediterranean regions and to increase their potential at transnational level.
AXIS 2 of the MED Programme: "Protection of the environment and promotion of a sustainable territorial development" and especially the Promotion of renewable energies and improvement of energy efficiency (objective 2.2.). The focus will be on the promotion of innovative renewable energy or/and energy efficiency solutions for smart Mediterranean cities, especially by taking into account the success and failures of on-going initiatives (écoquartiers, smart cities initiatives…). These difficulties may relate to poor performance in term of efficiency or economy of energy, lack of skills and knowledge, excessive costs, etc.). The objective will be to promote strategies, planning and measures ensuring that innovative solutions are implemented and used in the best cost-efficient way.
Deadline for the submission of the application forms is 12th April 2012, 08:00 PM (GMT1).
Links:
www.programmemed.eu/en/download-area/targeted-call-innovationenergy.html
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MED Programme: Targeted call for transport projects
The call is targeted towards project proposals within priority axis 3, objective 3.1. It is focused on the strengthening of Mediterranean port activities and the improvement of EU accessibility. The main aim is to contribute to improve the flow of goods and passengers, the attractiveness of ports and the connection between sea and hinterland transport systems.
The indicative ERDF allocation for this call in objective 3.1 of the operational programme is maximum 16,9M€ Euros. The final allocation is subject to a further decision of the programme Monitoring Committee, and might be lower.
An IPA allocation of 327 000€ might be available for participation of IPA partners to this call, by the beginning of selected projects.
The minimum ERDF allocation for each project should be of minimum 1M€ and not exceed 3M€.
The recommended minimum IPA allocation, subject to confirmation of the budget allocation, is 85 000€.
The projects have to end before 30 of June 2015.
The deadline for the submission of the application form is 27th of April 2012.
Links:
www.programmemed.eu/en/download-area/targeted-call-on-priority-axis-3-objective-31.html
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