Accesses to public support
Through their participation in various SCIAT projects, members gain access to public funding. In addition, members receive regular information from the cluster management on upcoming projects funded under the various OPs.
Access to international market
- Participation on fairs
- Organizing fairs visits
- Organizing B2B meetings
- Presentation of the cluster and its members to international partners
Direct advisory services - consultation of textile and clothing companies in Bulgaria, Romania and Macedonia, with an emphasis on organization, rationalization, optimization of production, engineering technology, quality control, quality improvement and staff training.
The experts of the cluster consults cluster members and other apparel companies for accordingly increasing performance in production lines (as pilot projects) with the aim of reorganizing the production in order to reduce costs.
Support of knowledge transfer
SCIAT is part of the KNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE “ICT IN TEXTILE AND CLOTHING HIGHER EDUCATION AND BUSINESS”. The aim of the project is to develop a curriculum and syllabuses that meet the requirements of the business to the specialists working in the field of textile and clothing design and production. The project responds to the tremendous need for industry executives, especially those who can work with CAD, CAM, CAE and PLM systems requiring a higher level of ICT proficiency. The curriculum of "Information Technology in Design of Textile and Clothing", aims precisely at providing knowledge and skills for engineering design and production of textiles and clothing on programmable machines
Provision and facilitation of accesses to training of members
Implementation of the dual education in the textile and clothing industry for the first time in Bulgaria as a leading partner in the Erasmus Project Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership 014-1-BG01-K201-001515 - Excellence Practices of Dual Education in Clothing Industry. The project is aimed to explore the good practices from Germany and Austria in the Dual Education that could improve not just the youth inclusion on the labour market but also could help the clothing businesses to find high motivated and well prepared young workers.
The basic project’s impacts are:
- Modified teaching programs combining State educational requirements and Business Practice’s requirement in Textile and Clothing;
- Improved international business and social cooperation;
- Better recognition of dual education and its impact on pupils, labor force and business in Textile and Clothing.
- Establishment of business-training European cooperation;
- Promoting transparency, international mobility and business cooperation.
The long-term benefit of the project is the start for the first time of the dual education in apparel industry in Bulgaria at PGO "Nedka Ivan Lazarova" at the beginning of the school year 2017/2018 on curricula developed within the framework of the project. Another long-term benefit is the start of a project for introduction of dual education in the apparel industry through the transfer of good practices from the project to a country outside the European Union - Albania.
Developing a center for adult education in Ruse
The VET centre provides a professional training for adults in order to be prepared for work in textile and clothing business in Bulgaria. Experience with adult training is a good starting point - cluster members use the center to train new hired employees or to increase the competence and skills of their workers. Trainings are held both in the VET center and in the factories.
Organizing, promoting and implementing of questionnaire surveys, analyses, researches, statistics and prognoses, associated with the development of clothing and textile business in the country.
Recommendations made to the Employment Agency in the framework of the project "Open and responsible partnership management between citizens, businesses and the Employment Agency to improve the socio-economic environment in the textile and clothing sector" № BG05SFOP001-2.
Answer to Recommendations made to the Employment Agency in the framework of the project "Open and responsible partnership management between citizens, businesses and the Employment Agency to improve the socio-economic environment in the textile and clothing sector" № BG05SFOP001-2.
Analysis by the NGO "SKIOT - Danube" based on surveys and recommendations in order to overcome the problems of the labor market in the garment and textile industry.
Research and development
As a NGO combining the interests of business, public bodies, school and training bodies and research centres, SCIAT promote not just new production approaches to the business but also to the professional schools and universities. In addition the feedback loop that provides connection between professional school bodies with the quality of professional competencies and skills of trained pupil and the business needs of high quality staff is also important activity of SCAT
Seminars and Trainings
SCIAT provides different weekend’s seminars and practical trainings of managers of its members. The work during the seminars and training helps the best applied practices in textile and clothing to be discovered. Most of them promote best business practices used by EU-member states, mostly Germany and Austria.