Texilia

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Texilia

• Company profile

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Texilia Company Profile
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Mission and activity

• Today the starting commitment to textile industry
  involves all the economic sectors of the advanced
  society, and Texilia turned into a Vocational
  Training Centre in the territory. TEXILIA has
  also been developing into a supportive structure
  for companies and institutions, in order to help
  them meet their strategic objectives
• vocational training and follow-up of workers,
  technicians, cadres and managers
• vocational training and follow-up of trainers
• vocational guidance
• applied research, testing of new products,
  processes, technologies and technology-transfer
• studies, researches and scientific dissemination
  of results
• planning and management of projects for regional,
  national and Community financing.

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Our partners

• Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation
• Piedmont Region
• CItta degli Studi di Biella
• Province of Biella
• Biella Industrial Union
• C.C.I.I.A. Biella
• Municipality of Biella
• Bank Sella
• Sanpaolo Imi Group
• Federpiemonte
• CISL
• CGIL
• UIL

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Italia-Romania a common textile district

• Integration of vocational training and technical
  assistance in the textile field as the italian
  industrial district model

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The project

• According to the law 212/92
• cooperation for the development of improvement of
  competitiveness of the romanian textile Companies
  specialised in the production of wools yarns and
  fabrics
• The activities foreseen by the project concern a
  vocational, economical and technological
  collaboration between the two countries
• Contribution to the improvement of
  professionalism and Romanian resource in the
  period of transition towards a free market economy

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Location of intervention

• Industrial area near Bucarest
• Active involvement of the University of Iasi
  (Moldavia)

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Location of intervention
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Partnership
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The project

• Lenght of the project 18 month
• Preventive cost
• Total cost 1.382.875,05
• Amount of the contribution required 413.165,52
  (29,88 of the total cost)

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Requirements

• Textile field/clothes
• The current state
• The markets offer is characterized by medium
  quality not competitive products
• Competitive advantage due to the geographical
  position close to Europe
• Danger represented by the competition of the
  rising countries located all over the world
• Aims to achieve
• Consolidation and increase of companies
  competitiveness in provision of spinneret
  integration

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Requirements

• Vocational training
• The current condition
• Massive return to an agricultural economy during
  the first decade of democracy
• Consequent loss of property of professional men
• Drop of attendance rate in the vocational schools
  and universities

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Requirements

• Vocational Training
• Aims to be achieved
• Creation of a strong system supporting economy
• Creation of a managerial culture in order to
  stimulate the autonomy and the growth of the
  countrys economy

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General Aims

• Integrate textile formative offer of the Textile
  University and Vocational Schools
• Create the relationships and an institutional
  relations system that could incrase the value of
  the vocational and academic competences

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General Aims

• Improve the professional performances of the
  Romanian industries
• Through technicians and managers of Biella
  textile companies technical assistance
  initiatives and know-how transfer

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General Aims

• Throw the basis for an integrated system of the
  companies belonging to the textile production
• Organisation of an industrial district
• Transfer of the Biella district model born from a
  similar condition to the Romanian one

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Specific Aims

• Integration of the formative offer
• Improvement of the potentiality of the Textile
  Faculty of the University of Iasi
• Insertion in an international context
• Activation of an integration system with the
  textile entrepreneurial world
• Strenghtening of the technical teaching of the
  vocational schools
• Synergy with the local textile companies and
  working insertion of the trained young people

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Specific Aims

• Improvement of the vocational preparation
• Improve the qualitative level of the Romanian
  textile companies
• Transfer of the know-how acquired from Biella
  small and medium concerns in a spinneret logic
• Set up of a vocational and intercultural exchange
  between Italian and Romanian Technicians and
  Managers

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Specific Aims

• Development of integrated system of the companies
  belonging to the textile field
• creation of infrastructures, services,
  computerization and nets, to make possible the
  integration from spinning to packaging
• Transfer of the Biella industrial model to the
  Romanian companies system
• Logic of cooperation in order to contribute to
  the success of the European textile production

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Actions of the project

• Vocational training
• Textile technology courses at the University of
  Iasi
• Visits and unpaid work experiences in Biellas
  industrial district for teachers and final-year
  students
• Professional updating courses hold by the
  University of Iasi in three Roumanian companies
• Unpaid work experiences for the students of the
  vocational schools in the Romanian companies

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Actions of the project

• Academic Collaboration Activities
• Transfer of knowledges between teachers of
  Texilia S.p.a. and teachers of the University of
  Iasi
• Exchanges between all the Vocational Institutes
  involved to favour the working insertion of the
  young people
• Cession of machineries to train at the University
  of Iasi from the Italian industrial partnership

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Project Actions

• Technical assistance activity
• Assistance of the Italian technicians and
  managers to the Romanian companies
• Work organization and companys management
• Assembly, regulation and maintenance of the
  production and service plants
• Computerization and integration of the three
  companies

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Project Actions

• Italy-Romania know-how transfer activity
• Technical advise from the concept of product to
  final product
• Cession of instruments to control the quality and
  the production
• Updating stays of the Romanian technicians in
  Biellas companies
• Use of managing and process control data
  processing

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Results Longed-for

• Vocational Training
• Synergies and relations net between the formative
  system and the Romanian textile district
• Improvement of teachers technical preparation
• Starting up of unpaid work experiences both in
  Romania and in Italy

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Results Longed-for

• Technical assistance and know-how transfer
• Increase (doubling) of the spuns and fabrics
  production compared to the current situation
• Tangible increase of fabrics and spuns increase
• More orientation to the market and products
• Visibility towards the European market