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Identification details
Official title of the project New Textile Coalition
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Region/City Jablanica
Sector(s) Textiles, Regional Development, Employment training
Budget / EC contribution 140,805.00 €
Implementation period 01 January 2010 - 01 January 2012
Expected results
  • 200 young textile workers living in Jablanica District gained additional knowledge, information and practice in different fields sufficient to start their own business.
  • Cooperative is founded to develop a unique brand in training young unemployed textile workers
  • Training centre established as part of cooperative in order to train textile workers how to start their own business, strategic planning, basics of marketing campaign, as well as additional and up to date knowledge related to textile industry
Beneficiary Resource Centre Leskovac
Partners National Employment Service City of Leskovac
Contact details
Summary
Summary of the project
(up to 1500 characters) 		During the last decade textile factories in Leskovac closed down and thousands lost their jobs. Jablanica District is one of the districts with highest rate of persons searching for job more than 12 months, half of them are women and almost 30% are young people up to 30 years of age. Since Leskovac has many young people that wish to design and tailor fashion street ware clothes but they are lack in materials, equipment and knowledge on how to realize ideas, this project will give them the opportunity to show what they know. On the other hand, local community and investors will get new serious products to invest in. This project is creating new employment opportunities in one of the most undeveloped region in Serbia by training and employing young textile workers providing them with innovative methodologies of management and work which make them competitive in the market.
Main goal of the project
(up to 800 characters) 		To contribute to revival of economy and entrepreneurial spirit in Jablanica district
Specific objectives
(up to 800 characters) 		To contribute to revival of economy and entrepreneurial spirit in Jablanica District
  • To contribute to revival of textile industry in Jablanica District
  • To create more favorable conditions for self-employment of young textile workers and their participation at the market
  • Prepare unemployed young textile workers to work under actual market conditions