Objective Ongoing social and economic globalization processes will offer major challenges on the global market for consumer oriented manufacturing sectors. In particular, the shoes and gloves markets are expected to grow by more than 25% within the next 5 years, and the market niches for high value added shoes and gloves are expected to grow even faster. As a consequence there is today a unique opportunity for the European Footwear and Sport Industries to improve their competitiveness on such market segments. To face such a challenge the present project will develop a new engineering framework for both products & processes integrating: new technologies and devices to integrate the consumer in shoes and gloves conception, specification and design; innovative 3D knowledge based integrated design tools; micro and nano devices providing shoes and gloves with innovative sensing and actuating functionalities; innovative high-performing materials with self-adaptive capabilities; adaptive production processes and technologies; new bio-materials and clean production processes. The expected outcome of the proposed project will be an integrated technology framework for the engineering of fully personalised shoes and gloves based on a 3 to 5 days time-to-market criterion. Such a framework will be validated and assessed on pilot production lines, and new differentiated consumer-centred shoes and gloves will be delivered as fully engineered prototypes. Main objectives of present project proposal are to raise competitiveness of the European Footwear and Sport Industry on the shoes and gloves high value added global market niches, so giving the opportunity to many European companies along the considered value chains to grow by more than 25% in the next 5 years; and to improve consumers satisfaction and well being through differentiated, comfortable, safe, healthy, affordable and sustainable user centred high value added shoes and gloves. Fields of science engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialssocial sciencessociologyglobalization Keywords consumer centred sport/safety shoes/gloves micro-devices new materials production technologies integration Programme(s) FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies Topic(s) NMP-2008-4.0-7 - Integration of new technologies and materials for differentiated consumer-centred product capability Call for proposal FP7-NMP-2008-SME-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-TP - Collaborative Project targeted to a special group (such as SMEs) Coordinator CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE EU contribution € 647 500,00 Address PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 7 00185 Roma Italy See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Emanuele Carpanzano (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (12) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DEL CALZADO Y CONEXAS Spain EU contribution € 294 875,00 Address C/ ALEMANIA 102 POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL CAMPO ALTO 03600 Elda Alicante See on map Region Este Comunitat Valenciana Alicante/Alacant Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Raúl Segura (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA Portugal EU contribution € 260 000,00 Address RUA DR ROBERTO FRIAS CAMPUS DA FEUP 4200 465 Porto See on map Region Continente Norte Área Metropolitana do Porto Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Marta Barbas (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTO DE BIOMECANICA DE VALENCIA Spain EU contribution € 358 750,00 Address CAMINO DE VERA EDIFICIO 9C UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA 46022 Valencia See on map Region Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Sara Gil (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BASE PROTECTION SRL Italy EU contribution € 295 000,00 Address via Bruxelles 7 70051 Barletta See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Mauro Di Molfetta (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STRATEGIES France EU contribution € 432 500,00 Address RUE DE VILLENEUVE 41/43 94583 RUNGIS See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jean Pierre Pedeboy (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data FEDERATION OF THE EUROPEAN SPORTING GOODS INDUSTRY Belgium EU contribution € 107 500,00 Address RUE BELLIARD 20 1040 BRUSSELS See on map Activity type Other Administrative Contact Alberto Bichi (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data PACAL SHOES S.L Spain EU contribution € 200 000,00 Address C/SOR JOSEFA ALCORTA 37 03204 ELCHE (ALICANTE) See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Antonio Dura (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data VIBRAM SPA Italy EU contribution € 245 500,00 Address CRISTOFORO COLOMBO 5 21041 Albizzate See on map Region Nord-Ovest Lombardia Varese Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Rosanna Disabella (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ORTHOLABSPORT S.R.L. Italy EU contribution € 128 750,00 Address CORSO PORTA TICINESE 105 20100 MILANO See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Stefano Duchini (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SCHOELLER TEXTIL AG Switzerland EU contribution € 360 000,00 Address BAHNHOFSTRASSE 17 9475 Sevelen See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Ostschweiz St. Gallen Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Maurizio Polet (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SYNESIS-SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA Italy EU contribution € 453 750,00 Address VIA CAVOUR 2 22074 Lomazzo Co See on map Region Nord-Ovest Lombardia Como Activity type Other Administrative Contact Chiara Tagliaferri (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data CALZATURIFICIO S.C.A.R.P.A. S.P.A. Italy EU contribution € 200 000,00 Address VIA E.FERMI 1 31011 ASOLO See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Andrea Parisotto (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data