Leapfrog IP

LEAPFROG IP is an Integrated European Research Project aiming at a technology breakthrough in the clothing industry.

LEAPFROG IP brings together 35 partners from industry and academia from 11 European countries.
The project will have a duration of 4 years and a total budget of some 26 million Euro of which up to 14 million Euro will be funded by the EC, the rest coming from own contributions of the involved partners.
For more information about the project refer to the project fact sheet and the overview presentation.

Final event on the results of the whole project Leapfrog - IP in Italy: July 3rd 2009, Castelletto Sul Ticino (Novara) click here

The Leapfrog-IP WIKI to learn more about the project outcomes click here

Workshop on the demonstration of the results of Leapfrog - IP for enterprise integration, the case Piacenza, Ermenegildo Zegna and TessilControl: June 24th 2009, Biella

The Leapfrog IP technology have been appied to support and ease the implementation of Moda-ML collaboration between fabric producers, garment manufacturer and Fabric checker.

Click here to see the agenda and the slides

Leapfrog CA

Leapfrog CA is a Coordination action on the Textile Clothing sector leaded by Euratex.

Leapfrog CA (Coordination of multidisciplinary knowledge and Research Activities to support Leadership for European Apparel Production From Research along Original Guidelines)is a Coordination Action project, funded by the EU in the context of the 6th Framework Programme as part of the joint action of the NMP (Nanotechnologies, Materials and Production) and IST (Information Society Technology) Programmes.

Leapfrog CA aims at the establishment of a 'knowledge community' on intelligent apparel manufacturing technologies

Links to

• the project web site: www.leapfrog-eu.org
  
  
• the project's public reports and results: Download documents about results
  
  
• the Knowledge Community: Repository of the Knowledge Community
  it contains about 600 references to projects, papers, patents and any other useful material about Research and Innovation that could be relevant for the Textile Clothing sector.
  The access is free but you have to get registered before to access the repository.