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    more  Organization address city: VALENCIA postcode: 46002 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Luis Cognome: Ballester Email: send email Telefono: +34 963925151 Fax: +34 963918370
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

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE PRODUCTOS PARA INFANCIA  Organization address city: VALENCIA postcode: 46002 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Luis Cognome: Ballester Email: send email Telefono: +34 963925151 Fax: +34 963918370	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 city: Roma postcode: 161 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Antonio Cognome: Franceschini Email: send email Telefono: 390512000000 Fax: 390512000000	IT (Roma)	participant	337˙207.12
3	EUROPEAN CHILDRENS FASHION ASSOCIATION  Organization address address: CALLE SAN VICENTE 16 city: VALENCIA postcode: 46002 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Alexandra Cognome: Curatolo Email: send email Telefono: 34963910334 Fax: 34963155484	ES (VALENCIA)	participant	276˙968.00
4	BALGARSKA ASOTSIATSIA NA PROIZVODITELITE I IZNOSITELITE NA OBLEKLO I TEXTIL  Organization address address: BUL DRAGAN TSANKOV 36 city: Sofia postcode: 1057 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Mariana Cognome: Manolova Email: send email Telefono: 35929693161 Fax: 35929693181	BG (Sofia)	participant	260˙465.11
5	BEBE DUE ESPANA SA  Organization address address: CALLE ANOIA 3 city: SANTA PERPETUA DE MOGODA postcode: 8130 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jose Ignacio Cognome: Insa Email: send email Telefono: 34935747500 Fax: 34935741592	ES (SANTA PERPETUA DE MOGODA)	participant	65˙046.13
6	KOLEV I KOLEV OOD  Organization address address: Arh Petko Momchilov 2-8 city: Sofia postcode: 1379 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Antonia Cognome: Kalacheva Email: send email Telefono: 35929589508 Fax: 35929589508	BG (Sofia)	participant	54˙953.93
7	BRAVOTEX IBERICA S.L.  Organization address city: VIGO postcode: 36202 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Maria José Cognome: Cernades Email: send email Telefono: +34 986441400	ES (VIGO)	participant	50˙840.32
8	THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED  Organization address address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE city: OXFORDSHIRE postcode: OX25 5PT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: John Cognome: Danvers Email: send email Telefono: 447921000000 Fax: 441665000000	UK (OXFORDSHIRE)	participant	43˙216.25
9	MUOTIKAUPAN LIITTO RY  Organization address address: Mannerheimintie 76 B city: Helsinki postcode: 250 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tarkko Cognome: Nuutinen Email: send email Telefono: 358968000000 Fax: 358968000000	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 city: VALENCIA postcode: 46022 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Carolina Cognome: Vaño Email: send email Telefono: 34963879160 Fax: 34963879169	ES (VALENCIA)	participant	22˙840.00
11	BROWZWEAR INTERNATIONAL LTD  Organization address address: NIRIM STREET 3 city: TEL AVIV postcode: 67060 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Offir Cognome: Keren Email: send email Telefono: 97236885556 Fax: 97236885535	IL (TEL AVIV)	participant	21˙320.00
12	ASOCIACION PARA ESTUDIOS DE INVESTIGACION EN PEDIATRIA  Organization address address: G.V. Fernando el Catolico 76 city: Valencia postcode: 46008 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Javier Cognome: Díez Domingo Email: send email Telefono: 34963676620 Fax: 34963676620	ES (Valencia)	participant	15˙550.00
13	BRAVOTEX II - PRODUCAO E COMERCIALIZACAO TEXTIL SA  Organization address address: VIA CENTRAL DE MILHEIROS 203 MILHEIROS city: MAIA postcode: 4475 330 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Antonio Cognome: Maia Email: send email Telefono: 351230000000 Fax: 351230000000	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.