Project Information

E-child project : second workshop for the international participants

In the period June 11 - 14, 2012 the French Association for children's clothings and accessories NOVA Child, seated in the city of Shoule, France, hosted the second Workshop of the international project E-CHILD.

The meeting was attended by all project partners except the representatives of the Spanish Association ASEPRI, where currently were undergoing structural changes at management level. The theme of the meeting was focused on the basic requirements and needs of designers specializing in the conception and development of children's clothing and the development of a web page for on-line training course, which is some f the main purpose of the project.

Presentations were gave by Clara Solves (IBV), Peter Ilona (Finnish Design Association - Ornamo) and Kenneth Lindkuist (Swedish educational center - STPKC). The project meeting was covered by many regional newspapers, as was mentioned in detail the role and the activities of all participants from the different countries.

The next project meeting will be held in Helsinki in early December 2012.

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E-CHILD project, funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme, was initiated by Children's Fashion Europe, coordinator of the project Design4Children where BAAPE is also a partner association.

The main purpose and outcome of the new project is to develop an international multi-language on-line platform for virtual training courses for designers of children's clothing line with European and national standards for quality and comfort.