LEAPFROG CA
project name: Coordination of multidisciplinary knowledge and Research Activities to support Leadership for European Apparel Production From Research along Original Guidelines
initiating country: The European Union
Framework Programme: FP6 programme area: NMP – Nanotechnologies and Nano-Sciences, Knowledge-Based Multifunctional Materials and New Production Processes and Devices contract type: CA – Coordination Action
contract/proposal/call number: 511017
status: active
start date: June 2006 duration: 30 months projected finish date: December 2008
Keywords
keywords: clothing; textile; manufacturing
Project Budget
total budget: € 1,630,000
Participants
Note that the follow people may not represent the full extent of the consortium. FEAST has tried to identify the Australian participants, and their collaborators (or coordinator), within the project. Also note that Australian participation may not necessarily be on a formal level. Further details about the partners in this project can be found at the website listed below.
| name | organisation | state or country |
|---|
| Mr Paul Comyn | AWI
| NSW, Australia |
| Mr Walter Lutz | EURATEX
| Belgium |
Further information
WWW: www.leapfrog-eu.org
summary:
With a turnover of 190 billion Euros and an overall work-force of 2 million employees, the textile and clothingindustry is one of the longest and most complicated manufacturing chains, strongly dominated by SMEs. Overthe past textile and clothing manufacturing have been improved through many Rip projects and many others arecurrently on-going at international, national and regional level. In order to withstand growing competition fromlow labour cost countries there is a need to gather and analyze this scattered knowledge in order to provide anholistic approach to solve common manufacturing problems and in the end reach rapid global manufacturingthrough the concept of the Extended Smart Textile/Garment Organization.Leapfrog CA aims at creating a knowledge community through cost-effective coordination of on-going Eureka,IMS, European, national and regional research projects and networking of 39 key consortium representativesfrom 14 countries. These projects spanning across NMP and 1ST related disciplines have been grouped in fourmain thematic areas where coordination of research will be performed through the following activities.
Source: Project Website
