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...
At the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), Engineer Francisco Pescio gave two free silk training sessions at the INTA AMBA Headquarters, located in the Buenos Aires District of Ituzaingó.
The first day was dedicated to a workshop on "Silkworm Breeding", with the participation of silk producers who have a productive enterprise underway and producers interested in starting the activity.
The Amazonian State University (Universidad Estatal Amazonica - UEA) of Ecuador joins the partner entities of the SEDA Project to promote the development of sustainable sericulture in Latin America and the Caribbean.
From September 24 to 28 of 2018, the 2nd Meetings of the Technical Reference Committee were held in the cities of Medellín and Popayán, Colombia.
The Seda Project participated in the 2018 edition of Emitex, Simatex and Confemaq, an exhibition of the textile industry that had its appointment at the Costa Salguero Center on 10, 11, 12 and 13 April.
The National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) and the Indio Hatuey Experimental Station of Cuba (EEIH) signed a specific agreement of complementation and academic, scientific and technological cooperation on sericulture. Through this agreement both institutions will work to achieve one of the objectives foreseen in the framework of the activity Contribution to poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean through sericulture with a sustainable approach and added local value.
De izquierda a derecha, se encuentran la Dra. Rose Meire Costa Brancalhão; la Dra. María Aparecida Fernandez; Dr. Flavio Augusto Vicente Seixas;, Dra Lucineia de Fá¡tima Chasko Ribeiro; Dr. Wanderley Dantas de Oliveira; Dr. Marco Aurélio Schuler de Oliveira. Integrante de este grupo de trabajo es también la Dra. Ana Silvia Lapenta.
The group of researchers associated with the Seda Project through the State University of Maringá (UEM) has been organizing meetings to discuss studies and ideas to contribute to the development and promotion of soy production in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
During December 2017 the coordinator of the Silk Project, Eng. Patricia Marino, held meetings with engineers Claudio Basso and Samanta Dobler, referents of the Silk Laboratory of the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires (FAUBA), and Eng. Francisco Pescio of the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) to design the sketches for the construction of the first Silkworm Eggs Multiplier Center that will be located as an extension of the current sericulture breeding shed of FAUBA.
En la foto, la Ing. Abreu junto a los docentes Horacio Alvarez y Hugo Enciso, con la becaria en el Centro INTI-Textiles, Joseline Villeda Pozos de la Universidad Politécnica de Francisco I. Madero, de México
Marlene Prieto Abreu participated on a training in the laboratories of the INTI-Textiles Center on Artisan Processes, including artisan dyeing methods.
The technical referents of the entities participating in the Proyecto SEDA organized meetings on November 1, 2 and 3 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to establish the agenda of actions for 2018.
In order to extend the networking programs initiated during the 1st International Silk Workshop, on the first Wednesday of November, 25 people participated in a 4-hour day in which the tasks developed in the Physical, Chemical, Surfactant and Silk laboratories were shown with demonstrations of the transformation of the silk cocoon into thread, the Trends Observatory and the specialized library of the INTI-Textiles Centre. The day ended in the Vicuña room of the Centre where an Argentinean and a Mexican craftswoman made demonstrations of silk spinning and weaving.
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