Actualidad y Eventos del proyecto Inter-tex

Igualada City Council is the Public institution for the local government of the city. Its functions are government and administration of the municipality.

Among the many tasks of the Council, the most relevant for the INTER-TEX project are:

• Development of active employment policies (Orientation, Training, Intermediation, prospection, Insertion) and the promotion and support to the entrepreneurs.
• Collaboration with socio-economic actors stakeholders to develop programs to support commercial initiatives, revitalization of strategic sectors of the city (among them the textile sector).
• Internationalization: The municipality develops tasks for the city internationalisation, implanting actions for the positioning of the town and its strategic sectors, as well as participation in transnational programs.

ATP – Textile and Clothing Association of Portugal is an employer association, with national scope, and represents around 500 companies from all sub-sectors of textile and apparel sector. These companies provide more than 35.000 jobs and a turnover of 3.000 million Euros, of which two third parts are destined to exportation.

ATP was created in 2003, as a result from the APT – Portuguese Textile and Clothing Association and APIM – Portuguese Knitwear Association merge, becoming consequently the organization more representative of the Portuguese textile and apparel sector and one of the most important at European level. This importance is coincident with the prominence of the textile and apparel industry in Portugal, which represent 11% of the added value and 20% of the employment in the manufacturing industry, and more than 10% of total exports.

To fulfil the needs of the associates companies, ATP provide varied and personalized services, in areas such as: labor, tax, commercial, civil and competition law, European Community law, international trade, national and international statistics, incentive systems, internationalization, environment, quality, R & D, energy, professional training and industrial licensing, commercial information, textile and fashion fairs, among others.

ACCIÓ is the competitiveness agency of the Catalan Government. ACCIÓ main objective is to promote innovation and internationalization among Catalan enterprises (especially SME’s, as they represent 98% of all the enterprises in the region) as well as attracting inward investment. In addition, ACCIÓ has a network of 36 offices worldwide.

ACCIÓ gathers the experience and knowledge of over 20 years of track record from CIDEM and COPCA developing programs and support services for the Catalan companies. ACCIÓ is assigned to the Department of Enterprise and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia.

ACCIÓ is created to enhance the strategic support and boost the competitiveness of the Catalan business fabric to new global challenges. ACCIÓ was born for the benefit of the enterprises, placing them at the center of its attention and approaching them as much as possible to their reality and needs to accompany them in their process of competitive differentiation and continuous search for new business opportunities.

ACCIÓ work is aimed at facilitating enterprises to be aware of their environment changes, seize them and transform them, while enhancing those differentiating elements which place them in a position to lead into the future. ACCIÓ believes that this differentiation occurs primarily through two key vectors for business competitiveness: innovation and internationalization.

ACCIÓ wants to be the actor of reference in all actions aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the Catalan business fabric. Therefore, it has a professional team in Barcelona which, ​​along with six other offices in Catalonia, reinforces its multiplier effect and its commitment to service and proximity to the company.

ACCIÓ has a privileged tool to enable and expand the scope of your project: its network of 36 offices Foreign Trade and Investment of Catalonia and 4 antennas located around the world in strategic locations. From these offices, ACCIÓ detects and takes advantage of business opportunities that arise globally, but which requires a proximity and local knowledge expert. This network, multidisciplinary and multicultural, promotes the connection of Catalan enterprises in the world.

ACCIÓ is the collective response to the needs of the enterprises, born of consensus and cooperation among public and private agents, which is constantly adapting to new economic realities. In addition, it also works with other companies to add synergies and to ensure that Catalan enterprises have a wider range of tools to grow in competitiveness.

ACCIÓ is proximity, proactivity and willing to serve. ACCIÓ is flexible, dynamic, agile and efficient. ACCIÓ is capacity to anticipate, respond and take advantage of new opportunities in the international environment. ACCIÓ is the best ally for the Catalan enterprises.

ACCIÓ works to achieve the following objectives:

• Increase productivity and efficiency of Catalan enterprises and the efficiency of innovation, technology and talent.
• Improve the positioning of Catalan products and services to international markets.
• Increase the number of enterprises and international Catalan products.

ATEVAL is a private industrial association founded in 1977. Nowadays it has more than 470 associated textile companies, and represents almost 13.000 persons employed. ATEVAL has several departments: Management and Administration, Industry and Environment, Labour, Training and External Promotion. It is also the Association that coordinated the actions of the “Consejo Intertextil Español” (CIE) under the name of “Home Textiles from Spain”. ATEVAL is permanently in contact with several institutions and bodies of national and autonomic scope, for example MINER, ICEX, IVEX, Valencian Chambers of Commerce, CIE, CEOE, CEV, COEPA, AVE, FMIV, AITEX, CEII, CITYC, Ferial Contests, etc. One of their services is training, where they perform the management of training projects, prospection of the area training needs, management of the training aspect of the learning contracts, programming, management and tracking of the Continuous Training courses (FORCEM) and Occupational Training, agreements for the promotion and tracking of textile specialties in professional and occupational training. ATEVAL has an Industry and Environment department with expertise in developing projects for environmental adaptation, planning regarding minimization of wastes and special agreements on environmental improvements with the Administration. It also gives advice on environmental issues. This department develops activities such as: Information about national and regional legislation related to Interior Commerce, Industry, Transports, etc. Assistance about funding lines for companies, Support to funding applications management, Environmental Adaptations Projects, Minimisation of wastes Plans, Special agreements with Public Administration for environmental improvements, Agreements for improvement and monitoring of occupational hazard.

Since our foundation in 1988, we’ve always been focused in improving the textile-fashion sector in Galicia, traditional sector of our regional business structure, with several examples of successful projects

As a business organization, our mission is to promote, coordinate and drive all those aspects that enrich the sector and all its companies, while we take care of their interests leading in dealings with the administration and another business groups.

In short, COINTEGA looks for strengthen among all the facts that are part of our business trying to increase the competitiveness of all our companies striving for excellence.

MODACC is a non-profit business association who works as a cluster key to boost the competitiveness of the Catalan fashion ecosystem, through cooperation initiatives between companies and professionals. MODACC promotes services and initiatives for internationalization, training, research, development and innovation.

The 125 companies that currently integrate MODACC, generate 1,500 million euros of turnover, they have commercial presence in more than 200 countries and occupy more than 5,000 professionals.

MODACC members are design companies, production, distribution, brands and businesses related to the fashion sector. Cluster also includes knowledge support entities. This configuration ensures the participation of the whole value chain of the textile-fashion sector of Catalonia.

The values ​​of the cluster are vision, cooperation and dynamism.

For MODACC, strategic axes are: internationalization, re-industrialization, social branding and communication, promotion of R&D&i and training for human resources of the sector.

UIT SUD, the professional Textile Union in the South-Western of France, federates an entire textile industry in Occitanie and Nouvelle Aquitaine areas, from fiber to end product.

It ensures the development of the member companies by:

• Providing assistance with exports and marketing by organizing:
  • Company participation in exhibitions in Europe and other foreign countries,
  • Promotional stands in leading Fairs,
  • Assignments involving the prospecting of new markets,
  • Dissemination of information about Market,
  • Meetings with foreign buyers in France,
  • Seeking financing,
  • Information on the preferential rules of origin, Customs codes, labelling, …
  • Working groups with firms to implement labels highlighting the French savoir-faire.
• Providing support for innovation
• Providing support for training on business strategy