SEiSC, is a project that aims to integrate vocational training and the business sector of smart textiles. The project aims to develop skills that enable students to understand and anticipate trends in a constantly evolving market, including in sustainable and smart clothing. Through the use of advanced virtual simulations and artificial intelligence, students acquire the necessary skills to navigate and shape the future of the sector, contributing ideas and solutions that respond to new market demands for products that are not only technologically advanced, but are designed with the utmost care to bring economic benefits to businesses, ensuring a sustainable environmental and social impact, which can also become a winning factor in ethical marketing.
Educational innovation is at the heart of the SEiSC project, which aims to make an innovative contribution to vocational education from 2023 to 2026. The project interweaves cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, with adaptive teaching methodologies to enable teachers and students to acquire a sustainable entrepreneur mindset, geared towards the sustainable and smart textile and clothing sector. Through practical simulation scenarios, SEiSC aims to improve teachers’ teaching practices and with them students’ skills, aligning education with the Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal.
Expected outcomes of the project include the development of curriculum and content for a MOOC for teachers, the creation of virtual simulation scenarios governed by artificial intelligence algorithms, a Guide for Teaching Sustainable Entrepreneurship to Students through Virtual Simulation, and an International Community of Practice on project topics.
The SEiSC project represents a bridge to the future of vocational education, where advanced skills must meet the innovation needs of the circular economy and constantly changing work environments. The results of SEiSC will be an excellent model for transversal experimentation not only for textiles, but for any productive sector seeking sustainable renewal. All this with the aim of contributing to the employability of students and the enrichment of practical skills needed in the sector.