TRACtion (2022 - 2025)
- Title
- TRACtion (2022 - 2025)
- Release Date
- 2023
- Irish Partner
- ATU St Angelas, Sligo
- Co-Partners
- Lead Partner: University of Malta, Malta
- University of Helsinki, Finland
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2022
- Funding Amount
- €200000
TRACtion will revive, innovate and digitalise three traditional European costumes and simultaneously educate various participants from a cultural, historical, creative, environmental, and economic perspective.
Keeping traditional costumes alive through education creates awareness and enhances creativity. It enables students to expand on the knowledge acquired and broaden their career opportunities within the creative industry. The TRACtion project intends to stimulate young people to become aware of and appreciate their garment heritage, as well as to recreate it according to their contemporary aesthetic preferences.
The University of Malta, the University of Helsinki, and the ATU St Angelas are higher education institutions, all well-equipped with particular departments that already deliver modules to students opting for an education in fashion and textiles. Currently, no projects revive the traditional European costume within an interdisciplinary context and with the scope of expanding employment possibilities for those who study in this area.
The project will revive, innovate and digitalise three traditional European costumes and simultaneously educate participants on their historical, creative, cultural, environmental, and economic aspects.
Project Actions
The project will also safeguard these traditional costumes and crafts by promoting the cultural heritage of these three countries through publications, interactive online workshops, a competition, exhibitions, and an online exhibition.
The project will reach students and academics from different institutions, professionals such as artists, fashion designers, educators, historians, costume historians, anthropologists, entrepreneurs, media, and the general public of different backgrounds and ethnicities.
Irish Partner
ATU St Angelas, Sligo, provides University-level education and research in the North West of Ireland. ATU St Angelas has a well-deserved reputation for delivering high-quality programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across the Academic Schools of Nursing, Health Sciences and Disability Studies, Home Economics, and Education. ATU St Angelas also offers a range of postgraduate and part-time education programmes.