Objective
The COMPASS-TEXTILE AND CLOTHING, Centres Of Multimedia Promotion, and Support Services for Textile & Clothing, have as objectives to create a permanent self-supporting Multimedia Service Network for the textile and clothing sector, to develop multimedia systems and applications designed by the consortium for the well known specific needs of the Small and Medium Enterprises of this sector and to create a model of a support network for the textile industries which, thanks to the joint work done with other European centres will give support to this same sector and with the collaboration of other Multimedia Support Networks (MSN), will be transferable to other similar sectors.
The multimedia systems and applications to be developed during the project, will give rise to an immediate improvement in the design processes of European textile and clothing industries and will facilitate their access to the market, and will reinforce their competitive position within the market. It will also contribute to the development of the multimedia industry. The product and services that will result from the project will be of key importance for the multimedia industry for two reasons: Firstly, due to the large number of enterprises in the project's targeted market (more than 125,000 enterprises in the European Union) and, secondly, the common needs of the textile sector with other industrial sectors such as leather, jewellery and shoe sectors among others.
The COMPASS- Textile & Clothing will be developed by a consortium formed by representatives of the multimedia industry (XTEL, Italy and COSTAISA, Spain), of the textile industry AGRUPACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE GÉNERO DE PUNTO (SPANISH KNITWEAR ASSOCIATION, Spain) and of two centres specialised in providing technical services to the textile and clothing sector (CITER, Italy, and CETEMMSA, Spain). The participation in the consortium of the consultancy company KURT SALMON Associates (United Kingdom), experts in the textile sector, will guarantee the establishment of an optimum market oriented project strategy.
The services that the centre will offer can be divided into two different groups. The first one is a group of services that respond to the user needs which were clearly identified before the conception of the project. These services are: multimedia virtual textile-trade centre; multimedia central point for purchasing of raw-material and contracting services including teleworking; legal dispositions, technical norms and export opportunities on-line information service; permanent multimedia exhibition-centre; on-line and off-line multimedia training and assessment; and creation of multimedia presentations of fashion collection service. The second group will include those services which are the result of new demands of the textile industries once the first needs are satisfied by the first group of services provided. The use of any synergy with other projects of the ESPRIT programme, might also give rise to this second group of services.
The COMPASS Textile & Clothing project will last 24 months. Its initiation will be in March 1997 and services will be available for SMEs use from July 1997 (first group of services); the development of new services and systems will start during month 11, and this second group of services will be available from June 1998 onwards.
The project will be developed in collaboration with and compliment the MULTIFAST project. (EP 24372).
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