Ecosign Project

ecosign is a sector skills alliance co-funded by the erasmus+ programme of the european union, that started on 1st november 2015 and will end on 31 october 2018, aiming at creating an eco-innovation skills partnership in four european countries (slovenia, spain, romania and italy) addressing the lack of knowledge of designers coming from the three economic sectors in which the environmental indicator report 2014 focuses: food packaging, electronic goods and textile/ clothing. ecosign will allow industrial designers from those sectors to reduce environmental impact during the product life-cycle from the earliest stage of design, including the use of raw materials and natural resources, manufacturing, packaging, transport, disposal and recycling, avoiding the risk of uncoordinated product planning that could lead to a negative impact for the environment. target groups are vocational students, food packaging designers, fashion and industrial textile designers, designers of electronic/elec