HACKTEX aims to endow with resilience, versatility and innovation the textile sector in Europe by addressing the gaps and mismatches detected between academia and the industry. HACKTEX will also facilitate new opportunities for the textile sector by connecting with other industries and its knowledge.
These goals will be addressed by the design and test of new educational methodological tools within the involved higher education institutions as well as with the research on smart textiles and their multiple applications.
As a result, the project will produce several innovative contents related to smart textiles and their potential applications in medicine, automotive and aeronautics, sports, personal protective, and living and building, among others.
This content will follow an educational methodology designed in such way that will enable students, as future textile sector specialists, to explore new textile applications and products as well as to tackle potential barriers and limitations.
Main results of the project will be: a training methodology and syllabus; a virtual training program as a MOOC on functional and smart textiles with specific videos, and training materials; an industrial smart textiles bootcamp training program for intensive summer education course; a virtual methodological guide focused on entrepreneurship in smart textiles and a project handbook of good practices about virtual training tools and blended methodologies to foster smart textiles into the manufacturing sector.
Project Τitle: Innovative smart textiles & entrepreneurship (HACKTEX)
Project Duration: 01.02.2022-30.07.2024 (30 months)
Project URL: https://hacktex.eu
Project Framework & Funding: Co-financed by the European Commission’s ERASMUS + program under the Cooperation partnerships in higher education call with the Grant Agreement number 2021-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000027527Reference number – 2021-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000027527
Funding: 398.175,00 €
Principal Investigator (UNIWA):
Dr Georgios Priniotakis
Email: gprin@uniwa.gr
Tel: +30-2105381335
Consortium – Partners:
- Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (TUIASI), Romania (Coordinator)
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya(UPC), Spain
- AEI Tèxtils, Spain
- University of West Attica, Greece (UNIWA), Department of Industrial and Product Design Engineering, Laboratory of Design and Development of Innovative Knitted Textiles and Garments –DIKNIGA)
- CREATIVE THINKING DEVELOPMENT (CRE.THI.DEV.), Greece
- CIAPE (Non-profit cultural association promoting lifelong learning), Italy
- University of Borås, Sweden
- Company Titera, Slovenia.
