DESIGN4CHILDREN
Development of innovative and cost-effective design support tools for the European childcare products industry promoting the enhancement of children’s comfort and extending products’ lifespan
| Coordinatore | ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE PRODUCTOS PARA INFANCIA
Organization address
city: VALENCIA contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Spain [ES] |
| Totale costo | 2˙055˙261 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙577˙074 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2008-2 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME-AG |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-09-01 - 2013-08-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE PRODUCTOS PARA INFANCIA
Organization address
city: VALENCIA contact info |
ES (VALENCIA) | coordinator | 399˙086.00 |
| 2 |
ENTE CONFEDERALE DI ISTRUZIONE PROFESSIONALE PER L'ARTIGIANATO E LE PICCOLE IMPRESE ASSOCIAZIONE SENZA FINE DI LUCRO
Organization address
address: Via G. Tomassetti 12 contact info |
IT (Roma) | participant | 337˙207.12 |
| 3 |
EUROPEAN CHILDRENS FASHION ASSOCIATION
Organization address
address: CALLE SAN VICENTE 16 contact info |
ES (VALENCIA) | participant | 276˙968.00 |
| 4 |
BALGARSKA ASOTSIATSIA NA PROIZVODITELITE I IZNOSITELITE NA OBLEKLO I TEXTIL
Organization address
address: BUL DRAGAN TSANKOV 36 contact info |
BG (Sofia) | participant | 260˙465.11 |
| 5 |
BEBE DUE ESPANA SA
Organization address
address: CALLE ANOIA 3 contact info |
ES (SANTA PERPETUA DE MOGODA) | participant | 65˙046.13 |
| 6 |
KOLEV I KOLEV OOD
Organization address
address: Arh Petko Momchilov 2-8 contact info |
BG (Sofia) | participant | 54˙953.93 |
| 7 |
BRAVOTEX IBERICA S.L.
Organization address
city: VIGO contact info |
ES (VIGO) | participant | 50˙840.32 |
| 8 |
THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED
Organization address
address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE contact info |
UK (OXFORDSHIRE) | participant | 43˙216.25 |
| 9 |
MUOTIKAUPAN LIITTO RY
Organization address
address: Mannerheimintie 76 B contact info |
FI (Helsinki) | participant | 26˙000.00 |
| 10 |
INSTITUTO DE BIOMECANICA DE VALENCIA
Organization address
address: UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA EDIFICIO 9C CAMINO DE VERA S/N contact info |
ES (VALENCIA) | participant | 22˙840.00 |
| 11 |
BROWZWEAR INTERNATIONAL LTD
Organization address
address: NIRIM STREET 3 contact info |
IL (TEL AVIV) | participant | 21˙320.00 |
| 12 |
ASOCIACION PARA ESTUDIOS DE INVESTIGACION EN PEDIATRIA
Organization address
address: G.V. Fernando el Catolico 76 contact info |
ES (Valencia) | participant | 15˙550.00 |
| 13 |
BRAVOTEX II - PRODUCAO E COMERCIALIZACAO TEXTIL SA
Organization address
address: VIA CENTRAL DE MILHEIROS 203 MILHEIROS contact info |
PT (MAIA) | participant | 3˙581.93 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Over last years, childcare products industry (dominated by SMEs) has implemented new technologies into their products and processes to face pressure from low-labour countries. But focus on cost has not given us sustainable protectable advantage so we need to support our sector by focusing on the needs of end-users. Children’s comfort needs and products’ lifespan significantly differ from adults’, presenting also important differences along their development (e.g. growing, body proportions, movements, temperature or wear). However, this industry does not have the appropriate scientific knowledge to understand how to make children’s products better match their needs. Thus, our project is aimed at generating the specific design criteria for enhancing children’s comfort and extending products’ lifespan, taking advantage of ICTs to provide our SME community with a set of innovative and cost-effective tools permitting them to develop and offer high added-value products based on improved comfort and performance. Three major technological developments beyond the state-of-the-art are expected: (R1) a Knowledge-based Design Support Application that will help design teams to introduce enhanced functionalities to products and assure children’s comfort and wellbeing; (R2) a Virtual Functional Performance Test Bed capable of predicting children’s comfort and products’ lifespan according to functional performance properties from virtual prototypes; and (R3) a Web-based Interactive Shopping Adviser that will be accessible via the Internet and at points of sale, that will help customers and retailers to select the products that better match their children’s needs. These tools will help the childcare products SME community to optimize their product development process, to develop premium products and to better convey them to their customers. In addition they will help customers to take better informed decisions and to acquire childcare products improving their quality of life.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
European childcare industries joined forces to develop a set of knowledge-based tools for designing high-added-value products based on improved comfort and performance that better match users' needs.