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.
Social
Seisc - Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Smart Clothing
What schools keepSEiSC closes in Italy
Publicly funded projects should be judged by what they leave in the classroom. That question ran through the Italian closing event of SEiSC, held at the Convitto Nazionale in Arezzo and organised by Tuscany’s Regional School Office with OpenCom.
The answer is practical. From November, schools can use Agora Lake free of charge. Developed by OpenCom, the simulation platform has students working in teams on a large sustainable sporting event, adjusting the path to the mistakes they make. A teacher’s guide and the project’s online course come with it. At Cellini-Tornabuoni in Florence, teachers trained in Helsinki are already using it with their classes.
The room brought together schools, universities, ITS Academies, trade associations and the Kering Group. It also heard an announcement: Tuscany’s Regional School Office plans to link 18 fashion schools with industry.
Coordinated by LHKK in Finland, SEiSC brings together nine partners from six countries and ends on 31 October.
🔗 Link seisc.eu/arezzo-hosts-italian-closing-event-erasmus-project-seisc/
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Forssan ammatti-instituutti
3DBear
OpenCom Italy
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath
Praktica, Training & Consulting
Centro Formación Internacional Reina Isabel
Ortaköy 80. Yıl Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Euro Education Bulgaria
Seisc - Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Smart Clothing
Arezzo hosts the Italian closing event of the Erasmus+ project SEiSC, where Director General Luciano Tagliaferri announces a new network of schools across the fashion supply chain
Forssan ammatti-instituutti
3DBear
OpenCom Italy
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath
Praktica, Training & Consulting
Centro Formación Internacional Reina Isabel
Ortaköy 80. Yıl Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Euro Education Bulgaria
Tuscany’s Regional School Office (Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Toscana) intends to bring together the region’s 18 schools working on fashion, sustainability and entrepreneurship…
Seisc - Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Smart Clothing
Nearly three years ago, SEiSC set out to meet a clear need: helping vocational schools in the fashion sector give students a sustainable entrepreneurial mindset, using virtual simulation and artificial intelligence. On Thursday 8 October, in Arezzo, the project will present its work in Italy.
The Italian final conference is organised by the Tuscany Regional School Office (Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Toscana), a project partner, which has used the occasion to bring together leading regional and national voices from education and industry: INDIRE, Italy's national institute for educational research, the University of Siena, ITS MITA Academy, the trade associations CNA, Confartigianato and Confindustria Toscana Sud, and Gucci, presenting the Kering Group's Accademia per le Eccellenze.
OpenCom will present Agora Lake, the virtual simulation environment developed within the project, while teachers from the Cellini-Tornabuoni institute, certified as Sustainable Adaptive Teachers, will explain how they have brought the course into their own classrooms.
SEiSC brings together ten partners from six countries and is coordinated by the Finnish vocational education provider Lounais-Hämeen koulutuskuntayhtymä.
📅 Thursday 8 October, 9am to 1pm
📍 Convitto Nazionale "Vittorio Emanuele II", Arezzo
✅ Free entry, registration on arrival
📄 Full programme in the second image
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#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #SmartClothing #SustainableEntrepreneurship #AgoraLake #OpenAcademia
Forssan ammatti-instituutti
3DBear
OpenCom Italy
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath
Praktica, Training & Consulting
Centro Formación Internacional Reina Isabel
Ortaköy 80. Yıl Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Euro Education Bulgaria
Seisc - Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Smart Clothing
Picture a world mountain sports championship. Thousands of technical garments left behind once the race is over, an alpine lake that risks paying the price, and a company that has to find a way through. This is the scenario behind Ágora Lake, the virtual simulation platform of the Erasmus+ project SEISC (Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Smart Clothing).
Inside the simulation, vocational students don't read about sustainability. They practise it. They take on the role of consultants at EcoTrack Solutions, a fictional company, and work through a real textile-industry challenge stage by stage, from framing the problem to proposing a sustainable business model. The platform adapts to each learner: when an answer misses the mark it doesn't move on without you, it brings the concept back with a fresh case until it clicks.
SEISC brings together schools, universities and companies from six countries (Finland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Ireland and Bulgaria) around a simple idea: to prepare young people for a labour market that now asks for green skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. Ágora Lake is the tool that holds it all together, developed by OpenCom and 3DBear.
The platform is already live and open to explore. From September 2026 it steps up, with classroom testing alongside students and teachers.
🔗 Explore the platform: games.seisc.eu
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#SEISC #ErasmusPlus #VET #Sustainability #SmartClothing #GreenSkills #Entrepreneurship
🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union
Forssan ammatti-instituutti
3DBear
OpenCom Italy
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath
Praktica, Training & Consulting
Centro Formación Internacional Reina Isabel
Ortaköy 80. Yıl Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Euro Education Bulgaria