The Partners
Klitra Ltd - is the sectoral training body representing employers and employees training in the knitting, lace and narrow fabrics sectors.KLITRA has considerable experience of running European and UK funded projects. During the past 6 years, KLITRA has been involved in successfully running 15 projects under ESF Objectives 2, 3 and 4 in the East Midlands and Scotland.
The European Apparel and Textile Organisation (EURATEX) - Brussels
Euratex represents the interests of Europe’s textile and clothing industry. It expresses the views of the industry to the European Commission and to the European Parliament. Euratex has members from the EU, Turkey and the majority of CEEC candidate countries. Euratex’s main objectives is to promote the interests of its members while taking into account the European Union’s institutional framework and its international obligations. Its principal areas of concern are commercial and industrial policies, research and innovation, environmental and social issues including human resource development and training.
Technical University of Liberec – Czech Republic
The Technical University of Liberec has experience of transnational co-operation under a number of projects funded through Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Monnet, TEMPUS and COPERNICUS. Their involvement in Leonardo da Vinci includes a project to develop tools for the fibres part of the textile sector. Their expertise will be extremely useful for this project as it develops interactive ICT solutions to meet the needs of the textile production and garment technologies.
Balitika Limited - Estonia
Balitika are part of an international textile company who supply to major retail companies and direct to the public. Balitika are new to this type of project but will have an important role in helping to develop and test the new interactive e learning materials from a users point of view.
Kaunas University of Technology - Lithuania
Kaunas University of Technology has experience of transnational working in textiles. This includes joint work with another partner in this project (the University of Leeds).
Protekt International - Poland
Protekt International is an SME from Poland which manufactures textiles. Protekt International have considerable experience in staff development but this is the first time that they have been involved in a transnational project.
Media Innovations,- UK
Media Innovations Limited specialises in producing multi-media textiles training software.
Suleyman Demirel University – Turkey
Suleyman Demirel University is based in Isparta and has experience of transnational working in Textiles and Clothing.
Namik Kemal University - Turkey
Namik Kemal University replaced Suleyman Demirel University as our Turkish Partner when the Textile person moved to Namik Kemal
