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	LEAPFROG CA General Presentation


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The Project

With a turnover of 220 billion Euros and an overall workforce of 2.9 million employees in the enlarged EU, the textile and clothing industry is one of the longest and most complicated manufacturing chains, strongly dominated by SMEs. Over the past textile and clothing manufacturing have been improved through many RTD projects and many others are currently on-going at international, national and regional level. In order to withstand growing competition from low labour cost countries there is a need to gather and analyze this scattered knowledge in order to provide a holistic approach to solve common manufacturing problems and in the end reach rapid global manufacturing through the concept of the Extended Smart Textile/Garment Organisation.

Leapfrog CA aims at creating a knowledge community through cost-effective coordination of on-going Eureka, IMS, European, national and regional research projects and networking of 37 key consortium representatives from 14 countries. These projects spanning across NMP and IST related disciplines have been grouped in four main thematic areas where coordination of research will be performed through the following activities:

	Identify current industrial needs, problems and bottlenecks

	Development of an extensive shared Workspace and a Virtual cooperation platform to support networking of the above community.

	Identify and review systematically all key emerging knowledge areas and related application fields

	Perform a worldwide state-of-the-art survey and patents search

	Analyze on a systematic basis the results of all projects finished in the last 5 years and those on-going

	Develop guidelines for the implementation of research results and/or best practices in the industry

	Develop a future reference production and organisational model

	Identify Gaps in research and develop an Integrated Research Roadmap for all four Thematic Areas

	Develop a Virtual cooperation platform for the knowledge community

	Establish permanent structures (industrial and scientific expert groups)

	Promote mobility of researchers, students and industrial staff

	Present the results of the project through public documents and conferences

The consortium gathers experts from academic and research institutes as well as textile/clothing industrial representatives, technology developers and IT service providers. Seventeen public deliverables will be developed and 5 milestones will be used to check the progress of key activities.