The Erasmus+ project "Smart textiles for STEM training" - Skills4Smartex is funded with support from the European Commission. This project is a Strategic partnership - KA2 / Vocational Education and Training, in the field of transfer of innovation from research providers towards textile enterprises & VET schools. The coordinating National Agency is ANPCDEFP (www.anpcdefp.ro) from Romania. The implementation of the project has a duration of 2 years: October 2018 - September 2020.
The quality of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in technical fields at European level means a competitiveness leverage in the international context. Speed-up of technological development is a challenge for the young VET students, while the development of the textile industry needs well prepared specialists in multidisciplinary fields. VET students within technical education acquire basic disciplines, such as mathematics, physics, technical drawing, chemistry, biology, mechanics, but the horizon of the end applications and usefulness of such basic disciplines is often not touchable.
The labor market in STEM fields needs appropriate skilled professional workers, in order to compete on the global market. In this context, the Skills4Smartex's aims to improve the knowledge, skills and employability of STEM students in the fields related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) by providing appropriate training.
These videos illustrate the importance of smart textiles as innovative field of textile industry.
This Guide aims to transfer smart practices from source sites (enterprises performing in the field of smart textiles) to target sites (other enterprises and VET schools), by identifying state-of-the-art work profiles for young trainees and existing needs in order to conceive the Course (Ouput2).
The Course has as main aim to present the multidisciplinary character of smart textiles and highlight end applications of STEM fields (Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Informatics). The educational materials will be conceived in chapters divided in modules on two dimensions:
| No. | Chapter | Responsible partner |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novel fibres and yarns for smart textiles applications | INCDTP |
| 2 | Materials & methods (plane materials, composites) for smart textiles | TU Iasi |
| 3 | Virtual prototyping of sensors on garments | Uni Maribor |
| 4 | Smart textile design | TecMinho |
| 5 | Smart textiles prototypes | UGent |
| 6 | Data processing | INCDTP |
| 7 | New methods for testing smart textiles | TZU |
The educational materials will focus on the modality basic sciences and arts (Maths, Physics etc.) contribute to the construction of a smart textile product.
| Fibres Yarns | Materials methods | Virtualmodel | Design Prototype | Performing prototype | Data processing | Testing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maths |  |
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| Physics | |||||||
| Chemist | |||||||
| Electrics |
The educational materials will focus on a smart textile prototype (eg. Protection equipment for PROTECH) and its related components of basic sciences and arts (Maths, Physics etc.) + practice with the prototype.
| Maths | Physics | Chemist | Electrics | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fibres Yarns |  |
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| Materials methods | ||||
| Virtual model | =one module | |||
| Design prototype | ||||
| Performing prototype | ||||
| Data processing | ||||
| Testing | ||||
Consists of a user friendly interface with direct access on the 56 modules from the data basis, based on a filter with drop-down lists. Filter concept:
| Dimension | Chapter | Module |
|---|---|---|
| STEM->SMART | Fibres Yarns | Maths |
| SMART->STEM | Materials | Physics |
| Vitual model | Chemist | |
| Design prototype | Data | |
| Performing Prototype | ||
| Data processing | ||
| Testing |
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@INCDTP - Bucharest 2019