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CHAPTER 2

SOCIAL INNOVATIONS

3.2 Nearly 200 women took part in a project designed to bring together the

past, present and future of Croatia's textile industry, and to re-establish the
O3-A1: Intergenerational approach and collaborative training guidelines
link between factory workers and cultural activities
As a first step partners will develop the methodology for an intergenerational approach as chosen to
The textile industry in Croatia once employed more than 100,000 people –
deliver the training. The aim of this output is to create long term relationships between an
mostly women from rural areas, providing women with a regular monthly
entrepreneur, responsible for running a retail business and a youth, who will help them introduce
income, and a certain amount of emancipation, the factories provided
sustainable changes to the business. In order to reach this objective, a framework for the
meals, health care, and a wide range of recreational, social and cultural
collaboration will be developed. The relationship will be be voluntary and included as such in the
activities. The Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb invited 195 former
framework but encouraged in order to maximise participation in the training activity and further
textile workers aged over 55 to take part in the ESF-funded project, called
apprenticeship programmes. Partners will explore existing suitable frameworks that can be used in
Tailored Futures?, By working with artists and using their memories of
the RETAIL project. In addition, partners will seek involvement of relevant networks to increase the
everyday industrial working conditions, the retired women developed their
project scope. For instance, DCC is a member of the Enterprise Europe Network with EASME
creative and social skills, producing works of art that were presented at a
actively encouraging members to collaborate and engage with all relevant EU projects. Partner will
museum exhibition and in a publication, also called Tailored Futures?.
also explore other relevant programmes such as mobility programmes (Erasmus+, Erasmus for
young entrepreneurs), etc. From this work, a methodological report will be issued.
A series of workshops, aimed to empower participants and provoke

reflection, examined the impact of modern technology on the industry –

including the implementation of digital technologies in textile

manufacturing – and tackled various recycling techniques.

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