SEiSC
SUSTAINABLE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IN SMART CLOTHING
SEiSC
The project aims to enhance the ability of vocational training institutions to teach students sustainable entrepreneurial thinking, improving their employability. It connects institutions with sustainable clothing organisations using a cross-sectoral approach through practical simulation scenarios. By utilising AI algorithms and digitisation, adaptive teaching enables teachers to improve their practical skills through active learning methodologies and systems thinking. The project aligns with the EU Green Deal, Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027, SDG4 “Quality Education,” SDG8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth,” and the European Education Area strategy by 2025. It addresses critical areas and priorities for sustainable development, innovation, digitisation, and inadequate skills, allowing partners to explore, design, and test concepts and products based on recycling, reuse, and waste reduction, contributing to the circular economy, Green Deal priorities, and new digitalised learning pathways for vocational education and training (VET).
The Target
Direct targets
- Vocational Education and Training (VET) institutes in multimedia and fashion, fashion and electronics, technological sector machinery, and electricity-electronics, marketing and advertising.
- Vocational Education and Training (VET) Teachers.
- Vocational Education and Training (VET) Students.
- Companies in the sustainable and smart clothing sector.
Indirect targets
- Society.
- Environment.
- Businesses of all kinds.
Project’s background and needs analysis
The project enables partners to explore, design, and test concepts and products based on recycling, reusing, and reducing waste, contributing to the circular economy, Green Deal priorities and new digitalised learning paths for VET. 4 needs emerge in the EU education systems:
- VET institutions need to adapt their educational offer, practice, and pedagogy to reflect the actual and future needs of the labour market, allowing students to be sustainable and employable. Today’s society is rapidly changing, and the World Economic Forum in 2020 estimated that 40% of people in the labour market will need reskilling and upskilling pathways
- Teachers need updated digital skills to ensure that AI is effective in helping students.
- VET institutions must build relationships with highly innovative business sectors that use sustainable business models aligned with the Circular Economy Action Plan and national and European policies, such as the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles (adopted on 30/03/2022).
- VET institutions need to act proactively towards reaping the benefits of the green transition to effectively contribute to the European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience by embedding environmental and social sustainability into their programmes and organisational management, thus contributing to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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The SEiSC MOOC is live
Five hours of free training, built for VET teachers across Europe
A T-shirt that tracks your heart rate. A jacket that collects biometric data in real time. The smart clothing market is growing fast — and vocational classrooms across Europe are largely missing the conversation.
SEiSC was set up to change that. And it started where it matters most: with the teachers.
📚 The SEiSC MOOC is now freely available on Open Academia. Ten modules, five hours of learning, developed by nine partner organisations across six countries. Not a course you complete and shelve. A practical training programme built around three European competence frameworks — EntreComp, GreenComp and DigCompEdu — with methods designed to work in real classrooms, not ideal ones.
From adaptive teaching to extended reality, from Business Model Canvas to formative assessment: each module was designed for educators working with standard resources, not specialist labs.
If you teach in a VET institution and want concrete tools to bring sustainable entrepreneurship into your classroom through the lens of smart clothing — the course is waiting.🔗 Find the to the full articlein the first comment🔗 Find the link to the MOOC in the first comment.🌐 Project Website in bio
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Smart clothing and sustainable entrepreneurship: Europe’s challenge begins in schools
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🎬✨ “This experience showed me even more how fashion, sustainability and innovation must coexist and support each other.”
The words of Lisa Bonaldi, a student at IIS Benvenuto Cellini in Florence, highlight the key lesson learned from participating in the European Contest within the SEiSC – Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Smart Clothing project 🇪🇺
She reminds us that fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world after oil, and that’s why these three elements – sustainability, innovation and fashion – need to work together to create a better future 🌍👕.
The contest is part of the SEiSC project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme, which promotes sustainable entrepreneurship in the smart clothing sector, connecting schools and students across Europe through creativity and green skills 🌿💡
🎥 Watch the interview with Lisa Bonaldi and discover her vision on how innovation and sustainability can coexist in fashion.
🔗 Watch the award-winning video here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx3hysCbU68
🌐 Learn more about the project: seisc.eu
#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #SmartClothing #Sustainability #Innovation #VideoContest #IISCellini #OpenCom #GreenSkills #Students #Teamwork #SustainableFashion
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🎬✨ “The idea came from bringing together different departments in our school.”
The words of Mattia Bucalossi, a student at IIS Benvenuto Cellini in Florence, describe the teamwork behind the winning video of the European Contest within the SEiSC – Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Smart Clothing project 🇪🇺
The initiative involved three departments and five classes, each contributing a different part: some worked on ideas and graphics, while others focused on filming and post-production 🎥💡. It was a shared effort that combined creativity, skills and passion, showing how collaboration can turn into innovation.
The contest is part of the SEiSC project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme, which promotes sustainable entrepreneurship in the smart clothing sector, connecting schools and students across Europe through sustainability and creativity 🌿👕
🎥 Watch the interview with Mattia Bucalossi and discover the story behind the winning video.
🔗 Watch the award-winning video here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx3hysCbU68
🌐 Learn more about the project: seisc.eu
#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #SmartClothing #Sustainability #Innovation #VideoContest #IISCellini #OpenCom #GreenSkills #Students #Teamwork #SustainableFashion