Rururbal/European Charter for the teritorial gouvernance, throught the periurbal food chain
DESCRIPTION:
Textile and Clothing (T&C) is a major economical sector in the Mediterranean area. This mostly SME-based industry accounts for a significant share of value added, employment and export revenue for many regions in this area. Over the last few years, this sector has undergone a series of radical transformations due to a number of factors, including increasing production costs, tighter environmental constraints and the onset of strong international competition. The competitive advantages of the sector are found in a focus on quality and design, innovation and technology, and high value-added products. The falling-off of the manufacturing sector in the European countries towards the development of new extra-European industrial poles, is driving the enterprises to invest more and more on the design and the intrinsic qualities of their products and on the marketing, necessary to communicate these values to exigent and aware costumers.
OBJECTIVES:
The overall objective of TEXMEDIN is to create a transnational cluster to increase the competitiveness of the partners' territories in Textile and Clothing sector by fostering the focus on quality, design and innovation. The project's specific objectives are:
-to identify, share and exploit the partners' T&A knowledge-base of productive know-how and creative heritage as a driver for innovation and inspiration source for the production of new high added-value and environmental friendly T&A products;
-to create a transnational cluster combining the partners economic, technological and creative resources in order to integrate R&D, fashion and design know-how in the productive chain, support the interaction between emerging designers, textile museums, training and research centres and T&A SMEs, and facilitate the creation of new enterprises in the T&A sector.
TIME: 2009-2011
LEAD PARTNER:
Municipalité de Prato
Toscana (Italie)
Contact Leadpartner:
Paolo Guarnieri
Function: Project Officer
Address:
V. le V. Veneto, 9
50100 Prato
email: p.guarnieri@district-rfo.org
Alessandro Fontani
Function: Director
Address:
V. le V. Veneto, 9
50100 Prato
phone: 3,90574E+12
email: a.fontani@comune.prato.it
Besnik Mehmeti
Function: Project Manager
Address:
V. le V. Veneto, 9
59100 Prato
email: b.mehmeti@comune.prato.it
PARTNERS:
Fondation Musée Textil de Prato Toscana (Italie)
Association Grecque de l’Industrie de l’Habillement Attiki (Grèce)
Foment de Terrassa Cataluña (Espagne)
Centre de Documentation et Musée Textile Cataluña (Espagne)
Développement Technologique de Fibres et Vêtement Textiles (CLOTEFI) Attiki (Grèce)
Institut Français Textile Habillement Rhône-Alpes (France)
Fondation Péloponnésienne de Folklore Peloponnisos (Grèce)
Carpiformazione Emilia-Romagna (Italie)
ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) 1426312.00 €
Total of contributions ERDF 475437.00 €
ERDF + Total of contributions 1901750.00 €
