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
Goal 1.A
Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
Justification:
The SEDA project contributes to Target 1.A by promoting sericulture as a complementary productive activity for low-income populations, encouraging environmentally sustainable practices and practices adding local value. Transferring knowledge and resources to improve the technical and organizational capacities of the participants responsible for carrying out the Project in all its dimensions, namely: scientific, technological and productive.
Indicator 1.A.2
Proportion of total government spending on essential services (education, health and social protection)
Justification:
The project contributes to the infrastructure and human resources of the Project's applicant and co-applicant entities (state universities, municipalities, national research institutes); as well as the support of the triangular EU-LAC cooperation for the implementation of the activities aimed at the development of sericulture entrepreneurs and producers for poverty alleviation in the region.
Goal 8.2
Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
Justification:
The SEDA project contributes to Target 8.2 by promoting sericulture as a complementary productive activity for low-income populations, encouraging environmentally sustainable practices and adding local value.
Justification:
INDICATOR NOT RELEVANT FOR THE PROJECT
Goal 8.4
Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead
Justification:
The SEDA project contributes to Target 8.4 by promoting sericulture as a complementary productive activity for low-income populations, encouraging environmentally sustainable practices and adding local value. To this aim, professionals are trained in good practices in the field of sustainable sericulture, value addition and design management, including the latest global trends in concepts of resource regeneration, circular economy, etc.
Justification:
TARGET WITHOUT INDICATOR
Goal 12.2
By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
Justification:
The SEDA project contributes to Target 12.2 by promoting sericulture as a complementary productive activity for low-income populations, encouraging environmentally sustainable practices and adding local value.
Justification:
INDICATOR NOT RELEVANT FOR THE PROJECT
CONTRIBUTION FROM A PARTICULAR PROJECT COMPONENT, COMPLEMENTARY TO THE MAIN TOPIC
Goal 5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
Justification:
The SEDA project contributes to Target 5.5 by granting a larger quota (70%) to women to attend trainings or events and by encouraging the formation of associative entrepreneurs' groups led mostly by women. The sericulture activity shows high levels of women's participation both in carrying out entrepreneurial activities and in bringing their capacity and knowledge in the field of production.
Indicator 5.5.2
Proportion of women in managerial positions
Justification:
The project particularly supports entrepreneurial capacities from primary production to the elaboration of final products, promoting women's training in the working groups.
Goal 5.B
Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
Justification:
The SEDA project contributes to Target 5.B through training and technology transfer in the use of appropriate technology for sericulture production and material processing. Further contribution is also being brought through the construction of demonstration centers equipped with adequate technology for sericulture production and the added value for female entrepreneurs groups, as well as updates regarding marketing channels, virtual sales channels and marketing tools.
Justification:
TARGET WITHOUT INDICATOR
CONTRIBUTION FROM CROSSCUTTING TOPICS
Goal 13.B
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
Justification:
The SEDA project contributes to Target 13.B through activities of technology transfer and knowledge extension in agro-ecological and environmentally sustainable management, encouraging producers and sericulture artisans -many of whom are considered as vulnerable communities- to undertake responsible production strategies, promoting the non-use of agrotoxics, emphasizing the potential for reuse and recycling of silk production. These actions take place both in rural populations and in marginal urban and semi-urban areas, which have the knowledge to undertake the transformation of silk as a high value material.
Justification:
TARGET WITHOUT INDICATOR
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...
At the 4th edition of the International Conference on Natural Fibers, #ICNF19, which was held in the city of Porto, Portugal, Engineer Patricia Marino, technical coordinator of the SEDA Project, gave a presentation on the contribution to poverty reduction through sustainable sericulture with added local value and a gender focus, and provided an overview of the structure created by the National Institute of Industrial Technology to coordinate a consortium of 9 institutions from 7 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Italy), co-finance
As part of a study trip within the framework of the ADELANTE Programme missions, the technical coordinator of the SEDA Project, Engineer Patricia Marino visited the city of Barcelona to participate in the largest world fair of textile technology, #ITMA2019, where Industry 4.0 and the new generation of machinery and innovations for the textile industry were at the heart of the debates to outline a horizon of new challenges and work perspectives.
In Padua, Italy, professionals Samanta Dobler from the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) and Alessandra Silva from the State University of Maringá (UEM) carried out a sericulture training session at the Council Institute for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis (CREA) of Padua.
The SEDA Project was represented by women scientists who are part of the Project partner Entities in Frontiers in Silk and Tecnologies, Trento Innovation Conferences on Materials Engineering 2019, organized by the University of Trento from 12 to 15 June in the city of Trento, Italy.
Within the framework of the Seda Project co-financed by the European Union through the ADELANTE Programme, an intense week of scientific cooperation in sericulture was carried out in June 2019 at the silk laboratories of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) between the partners of the Seda Project (National Institute of Agricultural Technology - INTA- and INTI) with the mission of moving forward with the tests of screening, spinning and dyeing with natural dyes of native silk.
Within the framework of the SEDA Project, Engineers Marlene Prieto and Dayron Martin from the Indio Hatuey Experimental Station for Pasture and Forage (EEPFIH), in Cuba, attended the 6th Asia-Pacific Congress of Sericulture and Insect Biotechnology, APSERI 2019, coordinated by the International Sericultural Commission in the city of Mysore, India.
They presented research work on agroecological strategies in the Sericulture cycle to increase the added value and evaluation of Sericin hydrolysate extraction methods.
Mr Juan Rodríguez Martínez, the Technical Referent of the Board of the Tourism and Sericulture and Rebocería Training Center of Jiquilpan, known as Casita de Piedra (Stone House) of the Sda Project, has been working on the breeding of worms. After the breeding, came the cutting of the cocoons for the extraction and sexing of the pupae (chrysalis) at this stage of their biological cycle. Once they break their chitinous cover and emerge as butterflies, they gather for mating and fertilisation, subsequently obtaining fertile eggs.
The Seda Project, an initiative promoted by the National Institute of Industrial Technology with the financial support of the European Union through the ADELANTE programme, participated in Emitex - the exhibition that brings together all the textile industry players - on 9, 10 and 10 April 2019 with the aim of informing the participants of the progress of its four-year work plan, which was launched in January 2017.
Engineers Marlene Prieto and Dayron Martín, from the Indio Hatuey Experimental Station for Pasture and Forage (EEPFIH), Cuba, visited the Textile, Chemical and Cellulose Centers of the National Institute of Industrial Technology to receive training and technical assistance in technology applied to the sericulture industry. The objective was to improve the techniques of added value of the textile material, the use of sericine for applications in industries like the cosmetic or pharmaceutical ones and the processing of wastes for the creation of silk paper.
Within the framework of a coordination trip for the SEDA Project in Brazil, Engineer Patricia Marino met with the technical expert Dr.
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