Providing training, tools and appropriate technology for sericulture to support women and vulnerable populations develop a sustainable economic activity.

COORDINATING INSTITUTION
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial (INTI) - Argentina
PARTNER INSTITUTION
Centro Turístico y de Capacitación Sericícola y de Rebocería de Jiquilpa, Michoacán - México
Estación experimental "Indio Hatuey" - Cuba
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) - Argentina
Società Cooperativa Sociale SOCIOLARIO Onlus - Italy
Universidad de Buenos Aires (Facultad de Agronomía) - Argentina
Universidad Estadual de Maringá (Laboratorio de Biotecnología) - Brazil
Universidad Estatal Amazónica (Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra) - Ecuador
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Facultad de Ingeniería Textil) - Colombia
OTHER RELATED INSTITUTIONS
Universidade do Minho - Portugal
BENEFICIARIES
  • 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.
TOTAL BUDGET
2.283.805 €
EU CONTRIBUTION
1.684.991 €
DURATION
60 months (January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2021)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • The Universidade do Minho -University of Minho- has advised the project at different times and has become a collaborating partner during its implementation.


  • 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.


  • 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

    • 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

    • 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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ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation
ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation European Union Latin America and the Caribbean
Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Buenos Aires
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Argentina
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15/11/2018

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.

Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
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30/10/2018

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.

ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation European Union Latin America and the Caribbean
Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
MEDELLIN AND POPAYAN, COLOMBIA
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Colombia
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11/10/2018

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.

ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation European Union Latin America and the Caribbean
Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
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14/04/2018

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.

ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation European Union Latin America and the Caribbean
Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
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01/01/2018

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.

ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation European Union Latin America and the Caribbean

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.

Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Maringa
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Brasil
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13/12/2017

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.

ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation European Union Latin America and the Caribbean
Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
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04/12/2017

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.

ADELANTE - Cooperación Triangular - UE-ALC

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

Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Buenos Aires
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Argentina
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15/11/2017

Marlene Prieto Abreu participated on a training in the laboratories of the INTI-Textiles Center on Artisan Processes, including artisan dyeing methods.

ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation European Union Latin America and the Caribbean
Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
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10/11/2017

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.

ADELANTE Programme: Triangular Cooperation European Union Latin America and the Caribbean
Proyecto SEDA - Sustainable Sericulture
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
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01/11/2017

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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