New free online course on circular economy available
Sign up for the Design4Circle course, with a total of 70 hours of training to understand the necessary shift in the textile industry towards a more sustainable circular economy.
Changing our current linear economic model to a circular one is a challenge for the whole society, as we need to manage the use of natural resources while increasing competitiveness, innovation and employment. This adaptation requires developing new skills, from new financial knowledge to marketing strategies, to understand consumer behavior and make sense of new business models.
The Desig4Circle training course allows the student to acquire the necessary knowledge to transform their organization into a company adapted to this new paradigm through 7 learning modules with a complete value chain approach:
The Design4Circle course includes interactive materials such as videos, infographics, presentations, quizzes and additional readings to deepen your knowledge on different topics of interest:
M1. Introduction to Circular Economy
M2. Sustainability challenges in the textile and fashion industry
M3. Materials for a Circular Economy
M4. Design for a Circular Economy
M5. Manufacture for a Circular Economy
M6. Recycling technologies for a Circular Economy of textile and fashion industry
M7. Business management in a Circular Economy
If you are interested in enrolling in this course, go to the training course platform here, where you can register and start the course right now.
http://training.design4circle.eu/
The Design4Circle training course has been funded thanks to the support of the European Commission, through the Erasmus+ program, and the following organizations have participated in its development:
Riga Technical University (RTU)
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi (TUIASI)
ECORES
Innovative Business Association of Furniture Manufacturers and Related in the Murcia Region (AMUEBLA)
Footwear Technology Centre Of Portugal (CTCP)
Textile Trade Association – Textile Cluster (TTA-TC)
The 6th meeting of the project “Design4circle” 05.02.2021
The 6th meeting of the project “Design4circle” was held on 05.02.2021 (Friday).
The meeting was held on the online platform Microsoft teams. It was attended by project partners.
At the meeting, first the project was discussed and reviewed by the project manager Dana Belakova and at the same time the administrative issues were discussed.
Raquel Ortega Martines (AMUEBLA) presented the e-learning platform and discussed its piloting and survey results. So far, 132 students have registered on the platform.
It was suggested that the partners provide open OER licenses for training materials.
The quality assurance and risk monitoring plan of the project was also reviewed and discussed, presented by Rita Souto (CTCP) from Portugal.
In addition, a presentation was made of the activities in the field of dissemination and exploitation by Natasha Sivevska (TTATC) from Macedonia.
Information about the project has been submitted to more media by all partners, and the latest analysis of the use of the website DESIGN 4 CIRCLE showed that so far it has been visited by 2526 users and has over 6000 pageviews
At the end of the meeting, the tasks, activities, and obligations that should be realized in the next period were highlighted.