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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Seisc - Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Smart Clothing
🇫🇮 Raija Salo (LHKK): "A week in which teachers discovered that teaching can take many shapes»
Raija Salo is the SEiSC project lead for LHKK, the Finnish vocational training institute that promotes the initiative.
In the first part of the interview Raija tells us what the VET teachers from across Europe took away with them: the discovery that pedagogy can travel along very different paths from the traditional one of the teacher who explains and the students who listen. The day on pedagogical escape rooms was, in her words, an eye-opener even for those who thought they already knew the format.
In the second part Raija takes stock of the project's closing phase, due in October 2026 with the final consortium meeting in Ankara, and of what SEiSC is handing over to the European education community: the MOOC already online, the Agora Lake platform now being finalised, a VET training model ready to be picked up and adopted.
Full information about the project at www.seisc.eu
#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #TeacherTraining #LHKK #SustainableEntrepreneurship
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
What if your students could practise real-world decisions without real-world consequences?
Module 4 of the SEiSC MOOC, developed by 3DBear 🇫🇮, explores virtual simulations as transformative tools for VET teaching. You will discover how immersive, interactive environments can help your students develop critical thinking, problem-solving skills and digital competences in ways that traditional instruction simply cannot replicate.
The module also looks at how to adapt simulation-based teaching to individual learner needs, connecting XR tools with the EntreComp and GreenComp frameworks in your everyday practice.
🔗 Find the link to the MOOC in the first comment.
🔗 Find the to prooject wbesite in bio
🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union | Erasmus+ KA2 | Project n. 2023-1-FI01-KA220-VET-000160581
#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #SustainableEntrepreneurship #SmartClothing #MOOC
#VirtualSimulation #XR #ImmersiveLearning #DigCompEdu #EntreComp #GreenComp
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
🇫🇮 Helsinki, the end of a week, the start of something that stays
The experiential training in Helsinki draws to a close. The VET teachers who travelled in from across Europe have received their certificates and are heading back to their schools with a toolkit made of methods, instruments and content.
Four days inside Agora Lake, inside the pedagogical escape room, inside the wider landscape of XR tools for teaching. Four days in which teachers stepped away from teaching for a moment to become students again, going first-hand through what they will be asking their own students to do.
What stays is not just in the certificates. It stays in the confidence built with tools that, only a week ago, were names on a screen. It stays in the lesson plans sketched out on the final afternoon, ready to be taken into the classroom. And above all it stays in the network of colleagues formed over these days, a European network of teachers who now share the same pedagogical language and who will be able to keep the conversation going long after the project ends.
Thanks to LHKK and 3DBear for hosting the week, to Raija Salo, Pekka Salokannel, Anu Kaseva and Erina Guraziu for leading it. And thanks to the teachers who chose to put themselves on the line.
The SEiSC project continues. The Agora Lake platform now enters its final testing phase with students and teachers from the six countries of the consortium, ahead of the project's close in October 2026.
#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #TeacherTraining #Helsinki #AgoraLake #SustainableEntrepreneurship
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
The final day in Helsinki, and the logic of the week comes full circle. After experiencing Agora Lake as students and working through the escape room as a method, the VET teachers step into the workshop of XR tools, the ones they will use to design their own simulation-based content.
The day, led by Pekka Salokannel of 3DBear, opens with a keynote on the landscape of virtual simulation in education: where we stand today, what works in the classroom, what remains experimental ground. Then comes the hands-on tour of the toolkit, from immersive 360° simulations to AI-powered avatars, from VR/XR headsets to the Simuna virtual learning environment, each introduced through demonstration and direct practice.
The afternoon closes the loop with the most demanding session of the week: designing their own simulation-based lesson. Here the teachers pull together what they have seen over three days and translate it into a teaching plan that fits their own classroom context.
The training is sealed by Raija Salo of LHKK handing over the certificates. But the real outcome of the week is not the document itself: it lies in these teachers heading back to their schools with fresh tools and methods to work with.
🔗 Find the to project website in bio
🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union | Erasmus+ KA2 | Project n. 2023-1-FI01-KA220-VET-000160581
#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #XR #ImmersiveLearning #TeacherTraining #VirtualSimulation
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