eBIZ-TCF

Project Consortium (EURATEX, CEC, ENEA)

The project consortium is made up by the 3 key partners authors of the project proposal and, responsible vis-à-vis the EC for the correct project implementation.

EURATEX, The European Apparel and Textile Confederation

As the voice of the European textile and clothing industry, EURATEX’s main objective is to create an environment within the European Union which is conducive to the manufacture of textile and clothing products. Its headquarters in Brussels are within touching distance of the major decision-making bodies of the EU, at Commission, Parliament and Council level. In this context, the major areas of concern to EURATEX over recent years have been: to ensure the smoothest possible transition into the quota-free era, to promote a further expansion of the EU exports of textiles and clothing, to promote legislation and its application in the field of intellectual property, to support measures which enhance environmental protection but which are at the same time acceptable to the industry, to promote and participate in research, development, innovation and other educational or social projects which bring value added to the industry at European level, to engage in a constructive social dialogue at EU level with our social partners, and to disseminate economic and statistical data to the membership.

CEC

CEC is known as the official representative body of the European Manufacturers Footwear Industry. CEC represents all major national footwear federations of the European Union and also observing countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Currently 15 footwear federation the E.U. and 4 observer federations are represented by the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry.

The European Footwear industry is changing a lot each day due to the movement towards a further globalization of world’s economy, the future enlargement/adhesion of the European Union, the several bilateral contacts between the EU and the Mediterranean zone, the increased competition world-wide. As the only leading European Confederation for the sector, CEC is defending the interests of the European Footwear Industry in order to maintain and to keep the industry in business and to defend the competitiveness of the sector in Europe and worldwide. CEC is also the officially recognized speaking partner of the European Commission and we are consulted in all matters that concern footwear. We work almost daily with the European Commission to solve different problems or to give our advice. We work on market access, quotas, antidumping, export or import problems, environment, labeling, e-commerce, standards, projects, training, etc…

CEC is definitely playing for its member the role as mediator, consultant, bringing footwear producers together. For our observer members, we provide a large panel of information about the European and the world footwear industry and on request, we help them, even in their country, in discussion with their government or on all other particular problems. CEC has always been in favor of a free and fair market with equal chances for all on a reciprocal basis. We are convinced that cooperation must increase and develop the global footwear market in a globalized market.

ENEA Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente

ENEA – Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment, involves a department with unique expertise in intercompany knowledge sharing and interoperability standards and technology transfer initiatives to industry. On Research and Technology Transfer to industrial districts and network of enterprises Enea is active since the 80’ with national and EU funded projects like Sprint (Prato) and many others. More recently ENEA has co-ordinated the Moda-ML initiative and has chaired the CEN/ISSS TexSpin and TexWeave workshops for setting up an interoperability framework in the T/C sector.

Since 2005, ENEA leads the regional Center for the Technological Innovation, CROSS, for the technological transfer of interoperability technologies and B2B standards towards networks of enterprises with a specific target on small and medium sized software suppliers (Regione Emilia Romagna, Italy, www.cross-lab.it).

GS1

GS1 is a leading global organisation dedicated to the design and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply and demand chains globally and across sectors. The GS1 system of standards is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world.

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Other project partners

An increasing number of organisations participate in the project activities with a view to:

Participating organisations (generally called partners) can be involved with or without receiving a financing contribution. The majority of such partners are expected to be involved through the project Pilots as of certain schedule.