Providing training, tools and appropriate technology for sericulture to support women and vulnerable populations develop a sustainable economic activity.
- Officials and employees of the project's partner institutions.
- People in charge of the management of institutions involved in training in sericulture and sericulture production.
- Cooperatives, entrepreneurs of marginal sectors, small farmers, small craftsmen and sericulture producers of the involved countries.
- Family units and communities of the project's direct beneficiaries.
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The project has paid a study visit to the ITMA 2019 Textile & Garment Technology Exhibition, the textile machinery and innovation fair organized by the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers (CEMATEX), held in Barcelona. http://cematex.com.
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The Cooperativa Sociale SOCIOLARIO -SOCIOLARIO Social Cooperative- is a strategic partner since the origin of the project.
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The Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo - Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale -Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation- and the Fondazione CARIPLO -CARIPLO Foundation- financed the initiative of the Organizzazione Internazionale Italo-Latino Americana - International Italian-Latin American Organization- (IILA) to create the "Latin American Silk Network (RELASEDA)", which is the embryo of the SEDA project, in which the Società Cooperativa Sociale SOCIOLARIO -SOCIOLARIO Social Cooperative also participates.
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The project has paid a study visit to the Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria -Italian Council for Agricultural Research and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA), leader in the field of sericulture and owner of the European Union's bombix mori germplasm bank.
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Professors Silvia Cappellozza, coordinator of the Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria / Italian Council for Agricultural Research and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA), Giovanna Salice, coordinator of the Latin American Silk Network (RELASEDA), Germano Allara, expert in natural dyes, and Giorgio Allara, expert in sericulture production, have served as advisors to the project.
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The project has paid a study visit to the 2019 edition of the International Silk Conference, organized by the Universitá di Trento -University of Trento-, held in Trento.
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The Universidade do Minho -University of Minho- has advised the project at different times and has become a collaborating partner during its implementation.
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The project has paid a study visit to the FIBRENAMICS Group, the international multi-sector platform for the development of innovative fibre-based materials and products, coordinated by the Universidade do Minho -University of Minho- and based in Guimarães.
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Professor Raúl Famgueiro, director of the FIBRENAMICS Group, the international multi-sector platform for the development of innovative fibre-based materials and products, coordinated by the Universidade do Minho - University of Minho-, has served as advisor to the project.
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The project has paid a study visit to the 4th International Conference on Natural Fibers (ICNF 2019), with the theme 'Smart Sustainable Solutions', organized by the Universidade do Minho - University of Minho- and held in Porto, where it presented a paper on the achievements of the project.
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Consultant Marina Chahboune has carried out an international consultancy mission for the project in the field of fashion sustainability, with a special focus on Circular Economy.
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The Project has been invited by Messe Frankfurt (Frankfurt Trade Fair) to participate in its international textile exhibitions held in Argentina, receiving support for the dissemination of its activities through an info point and the inclusion of time slots in the event's official programme for presentations, in addition to the corresponding media coverage.
STUDY VISITS
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Visita de estudio a la ‘Exposición Internacional de Maquinaria Textil (ITMA)’, en Barcelona, para profundizar en el conocimiento sobre las últimas tecnologías de procesamiento de fibras
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Visita de estudio a la ‘IV Conferencia internacional sobre fibras naturales’, a la Universidad del Miño y al Grupo FIBRENAMICS, en Oporto y Guimarães, para profundizar en el conocimiento sobre sobre procesos y productos textiles innovadores y sustentables
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Visita de estudio al ‘Congreso trienal de la Comisión Internacional de Sericultura (ISC)’, en Tsukuba, para profundizar en el conocimiento sobre biología celular y molecular en la industria sericícola
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Visita de estudio al ‘Consejo para la Investigación en Agricultura y el Análisis de la Economía Agrícola (CREA)’, en Padua, para profundizar en el conocimiento sobre técnicas de producción sericícola
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INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY
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Consultoría internacional para el apoyo a la implantación de estrategias orientadas a la sustentabilidad en el sistema de la moda, de forma principal basadas en la Economía Circular
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This project aims to contribute to the reduction of poverty in several countries in the Latin American region through the development of sustainable sericulture. To do so, the technical and organisational capacity of the recipient organisations will increase, and appropriate sustainable sericulture technology development will be strengthened. In the same way, access to critical inputs for sericulture production in Latin America will be improved and communication and horizontal South-South cooperation will be strengthened. At the end of the project, the prospect is that there will be several operating demonstration centres available, with professionals trained in all the sustainable sericulture techniques and collaborating on a South-South network. In addition, it is expected that the value chain of the silk will have been strengthened, and its production will have been improved.
MAIN CONTRIBUTION, FROM THE PROJECT'S THEMATIC PERSPECTIVE
CONTRIBUTION FROM A PARTICULAR PROJECT COMPONENT, COMPLEMENTARY TO THE MAIN TOPIC
CONTRIBUTION FROM CROSSCUTTING TOPICS
Lessons Learnt
The National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI), which coordinated the project, had an extensive experience of good cooperation with the European Union (and other international donors) and had its own pr...
Success Stories
Thanks to the development, from the beginning of the project, of an inclusive communication and visibility strategy, which includes guidelines agreed upon by the different partners, it has been possible to guarantee a smooth external communic...
Thanks to the project, the principle of circular economy has been introduced in the models of sericulture production promoted in the region. Based on a specialised consultancy, the necessary guidelines to apply...
Good Practices
Defining and organising, within the framework of a methodology, a series of essential guidelines aimed at identifying the final beneficiaries and establishing the lines of work with them in the face of the chal...
Argentina's National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) improved the building infrastructure of "La Usina" Agro-ecological Center in Santiago del Estero, a province in northern Argentina. This space, dedicated to sericulture, will specialize in the production of fiber processing and silk reeling machines.
Professor and Researcher María Aparecida Fernández, the technical expert of Universidade Estadual de Maringá, which is an associated entity of the Seda Project in Brazil, together with Researcher Daniel Caligari, from the same institution, participated in "The 25th International Congress on Sericulture & Silk Industry - Silk beyond the Textile", held from 19 to 22 November 2019 in Tsukuba, Japan.
The Portuguese University of Minho, from its Fibrenamics platform for research work on fibres, became part of the Seda Project as an associated entity. The relationships between the work teams of the House of Higher Education and the participating entities of the Project have been built for a long time through formal and informal meetings in which knowledge is exchanged regarding the use of natural fibres to develop innovative products in various sectors of the industry.
With a high level of participation from designers, textile industrialists and sericulture producers, a training day on sericulture was held at the INTI-Textiles Center, on 30 October from 9:30 to 12:30.
Ensayos en los laboratorios del CREA
Mr. Juan Rodriguez Martinez, technical referent of Casita de Piedra Cetcaser, which is a partner entity of the Seda Project in Mexico, carried out a training in primary production and improvement techniques of silkworm breeding at the CREA Institute of Padova, Italy, in October 2019.
Más 150 docentes recibieron capacitaciones sobre el manejo de producción sericícola en el aula
In October 2019, in the premises of the UBA Agricultural School, Experts from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) gave a workshop on silkworm breeding in educational fields, with Green Schools and Teachers' Schools, from the Educational area of the CABA (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). "More than 150 teachers from primary and secondary schools and gardens of the Federal Capital were trained," said Agricultural Engineer Francisco Pescio, INTA technical expert for the Silk Project.
With the aim of inspiring innovative ideas and knowledge about circular economy strategies, German specialist Marina Chahboune gave a conference in Buenos Aires, at the INTI auditorium, on 6 September 2019, within the framework of the SEDA Project, with the European Union's financial support through the ADELANTE Triangular Cooperation Programme.
Technical experts of the Seda Project from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba and Ecuador, met on 4 September, at the INTI-Textiles Center, to share knowledge and views on current trends in the production and commercialization of silk and textiles.
As part of the objectives of improving technical and organizational skills, as well as training professionals in genetics and transformation of material for added value, the National Institute of Industrial Technology (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial - INTI) of Argentina, together with the Sociolario Cooperative in Italy and the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) of Colombia, obtained a scholarship for a PhD student from the UPB at the University of Trento, Italy.
The Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, held the traditional pruning session of its mulberry field open to the community and students of the UBA Agrotechnical School. Led by Agronomist Claudio Basso, technical expert of this institution for the SEDA Project, the Faculty welcomed many silk producers who attended the gathering to get cuttings of varieties selected for their high protein content to feed the silkworms.
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