Textile Mediterranean Alliances for Business Development, Internationalization and Innovation
Like many others, the textile sector has changed dramatically during the last decades. Advanced countries have brought in high performance and high added-value technologies while emerging countries, mainly from Asia, have sharply reduced the costs putting insane pressure on Mediterranean traditional clothing SMEs. In contrast, the Mediterranean textile sector has traditionally been a weak innovation performer. TEX-MED ALLIANCES aims at reducing that persistent innovation gap. To do that, the project proposes an innovative approach based on the development of two types of initiatives: cross-border initiatives identified and promoted by the project partners and cross-border project ideas/proposals arising directly from MSMEs. Together, these actions will put innovation at the core of the sector. Eventually, TEX-MED ALLIANCES will help textile and clothing MSMEs expand internationally inside/outside the Mediterranean area, fostering job creation and technological upgrading._x000D_
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Information added on 2020-07-06, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): With the outbreak of the pandemic, the project put online an emergency survey to support the supply chain of textile sanitary materials. It now maps the industrial capacities of the area (Italy, Greece, Spain, Jordan, Tunisia, Palestine and Egypt) in terms of production of self-filtering masks, protective gloves, clothes for medical use etc. This information is shared with public authorities and other possible buyers.