FUSION (Fashion Up Skilling Innovation Network)
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- Teideal
- FUSION (Fashion Up Skilling Innovation Network)
- Irish Partner
- Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Co-Partners
- Fondazione Santagata Per L Economia Della Culura, Italy
- Instituto Politecnico Do Cavado E Do Ave, Portugal.
- Crafts Council, UK.
- Funding Strand
- Smaller Scale Cooperation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2019
- Funding Amount
- €199,999
FUSION offers their members methodologies to help them develop bespoke products, across fashion, textiles and wearables for active ageing citizens.
Through a series of masterclasses, a short residency programme, networking events, a seminar, exhibition, thematic research mapping and the development of a business toolkit, the project aims to:
- Increase access to digital fabrication technologies for fashion and textile designers and makers.
- Enrich professional capacities in digital fabrication and co-designing with active ageing citizens.
- Open new business opportunities for the design and craft sector.
- Develop new business models for creative enterprises interested in cross-sector innovation within fashion and textiles.