GED Fashion Institute is established in Milan in 2001 and is soon in the van of the complex outline of fashion, design and graphic art training; it offers a preparation aimed at what required by professional areas which are constantly developing. GED offers a teaching and artistic method developed from its experience and from highly qualified professional teachers who have chosen to teach as a secondary job and, thanks to this choice, are able to convey their own experience directly. In other words, GED offers to its students the possibility to take the greatest possible advantage from stylists, designers, pattern makers, tailors, managers, web designers and “cheat them out” both their knowledge and up-to-date information on areas which are continuously changing. Furthermore, GED courses offer a very interesting quality-price ratio. GED Fashion Institute can boast many students entering the fashion world: many of them have reached a good success and an important working career. It also offer the opportunity of training at very well-know Firms of Fashion and Design systems. GED Fashion Institute offers postgraduate courses and is entitled to issue certified IMQ (Certified Quality Auditor and European Leader in conformity Assessments) master's degrees.

Tarì Design School is a creative laboratory where students, teachers and designers‘ ideas create always new projects. All the courses promoted by TADS, are not mere theory but also a practical and direct vision of the projects, thanks to the presence of Tarì Design Lab, the incubator Laboratory of the School. The Tad Lab provides the most talented students, with the assistance of a tutor, with the ability to contact potential customers and to realize the real creation from the pure creativity. The strength of TADS is the constant collaboration with the companies that are experiencing the world of fashion, with which the school regularly updates the teaching of courses in order to be tuned with business and production needs. Moreover, the Tab Lab organizes stages and helps young students finding a job. TADS courses, deal with the world of fashion and jewelry, mixing tradition and advanced experimentation. Each project or creation of TADS blends the soul of the past and the face of the future.

Heriot-Watt University’s renowned School of Textiles and Design is one of the world’s leading fashion and textile design institutions and is based in the Scottish Borders, in easy reach of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle. The School has the best fashion and textiles facilities in the UK - according to designers Dame Vivienne Westwood and Mark Eley of Eley Kishimoto - and these are now joined by brand new student facilities at the Scottish Borders Campus. A £31.4M investment has created state-of-the-art facilities that combine with creative expertise, design innovation, excellent technological and design facilities in a beautiful location. Since 1883, its unique position at the heart of the Scottish cashmere and textiles industry, has enabled the School to specialise and establish an international reputation. Our location and links with the local and global textile and fashion industries offer an unrivalled combination of traditional and cutting-edge expertise in design, technology and management, making our graduates highly sought-after.  Excellent links with the international fashion, textile and design industries, provide the opportunity for work placements and study abroad. Students also have the chance to attend international trade shows including New Designers, and take part in our annual Graduate Exhibition and fashion show in Edinburgh and pop-up shops in Camden, London. The School offers innovative undergraduate and postgraduate programmes designed to respond to the diverse needs of the technologically advanced and creatively dynamic fashion and textile industries. Our graduates go on to work with top international companies and designers in a wide range of careers including textile and fashion design, buying and merchandising, design and product development, management, retailing and marketing.

Domus Academy was born in Milan in 1982 as an open project around the Italian design and fashion experience. During the years, DA also asserted its importance as a school, in the full meaning of the term: a place of post-graduate training and research laboratory on the processes of industrial creativity, on the aesthetic and consumption scenarios, on space and time relationship, on the form of public and private services and on the radical changes deriving from the diffusion of the "Web". Strongly rooted in Italy, Domus Academy works in an international perspective, in order to enrich, spread and update the design culture. Domus Academy is a real point of connection between design, fashion and management culture. Domus Academy is conceived as a big research lab, exploring future scenarios. The presence of multi-disciplinary teams, together with the rich cultural background of the students and the focus on the research, typical of Italian Design, are the main features of the school. Domus Academy’s approach is that of the learning by doing, meaning learning through study, research and development of ideas and projects based on real companies’ requests and needs, with the aim of transferring the students the know-how needed to work at the top professional level.  The evolution of a System like Fashion not only requires a creator able to design the collections, but it demands a professional figure with more interdisciplinary competences, able to manage and dialogue with the several fields of the Fashion System itself. The fashion designer of today is also Manager and Art Director, able to guide and coordinate the corporate project from the product, to communication and retail aspects.  The education offer of the school comes from and evolves in order to respond to the new and growing needs of an increasingly complex market: the Master in Fashion Design, the Master in Accessories Design and the brand new Master in Fashion Management, which will see its first edition in January 2010. The three MA programmes offer an overview on the Fashion System, to guarantee a constantly updated training, providing the students with the tools for a future vision of how to operate in this more and more hybrid system. The features characterizing Domus Academy’s MA in the fashion area are: the constant relation with the professional world – Fashion Designers, Fashion Managers and Companies invited as professors and lecturers - , the active presence to the appointments of the Made in Italy – Trade Fairs and Runaways – and the constant participation to special projects aimed at supporting alumni.

Chio Lecca Fashion Design School, was founded 22 years ago by Istituto Marangoni's graduated Rocio Lecca. Located in Lima ­ Perú, Chio Lecca is the biggest referent in fashion education at this country and one of the most recognized fashion study centers in the region. Latin American Fashion has evolved in the last decade empowered by the creativiy of its people, and cultural legacy, which is recognized worldwide, and Chio Lecca ´s student are part of this revolution.

NID, the “Nuovo Istituto Design” (New Design Institute), founded in 1985, is a professional training school, specializing in the fields of fashion, interior design, graphics, illustration and photography. NID is accredited by the Umbria region (managerial decision no. 9682), and is based in Perugia, the historical city of art famous for its monuments. The aim of the New Design Institute is to train creative talents to be adaptable to the diverse requirements of the job market, since designers nowadays need to be to be able to relate to a wide spectre of activities. An institute where students of fashion, design, graphics, illustration and photography can all Exchange ideas provides the ideal context for encouraging the creativity of the designers of tomorrow. The institute has large classsrooms, two computer labs with 20 pc stations and 15 mac stations, all equipped wih the latest software, a modelling and sewing workshop and a photographic studio. There is also wireless internet connection, a coffee bar, and study rooms. The institute offers complete teaching programmes, providing a valid alternative to a university course. As well as lessons in the classrooms, external teaching activities, workshops and periods of work experience in companies are all provided. nid is a meeting-place for specialists working in various design sectors. Seminars and conferences are regularly organized to promote contacts with public and privated companies interested in graduates from the school. All lessons are conducted in italian. The teaching staff is composed of experts in the field with many years experience in the teaching field. The teaching system is based on a close interactivity between theory and practice, research and experimentation. the professional expertise of the staff ensures that the methodology and teaching skills are of a very high standard. Students with a good performance record are offered the opportunity to carry out periods of work experience in companies operating in their particular field of study. This phase, during which the student makes real contact with his professional vocation, represents a valuable link with the world of work. The companies that host our students are all positively impressed by our original and creative method of professional training, with its innovative ideas and practical systems and content.

“Inspiring Individuality” To think independently, to experiment endlessly and to create fearlessly… The FAD philosophy is to “Inspire Individuality'. Individuality in thought, Individuality in actions, Individuality in style and Individuality in Identity… Art & Design is about expressing oneself and FAD provides the environment – the environment that inspires an individual to think experiment and create. FAD International, modern India's premier creative arts & design institution, honors undergraduate and post graduate qualifications across four departments - Art, Design, Fashion & Media. The courses are honored in close connectivity with the industry and students achieve a high level of exposure through the international academic and professional tours to fashion weeks, art festivals, academic workshops and relevant industry visits. Taught in an interdisciplinary, project based and a liberal environment; the academic curricula and teaching methodologies at FAD International aim at educating India’s finest creative talent to help progress them into the global art & design industry.

The Politecnico Calzaturiero is a key player in the culture of shoe production in the vibrant and prestigious environment of Riviera del Brenta. It is a culture that has been profoundly influential for centuries, in terms of both quantity and quality, and the strength of the Centro Veneto Calzaturiero derives from the fact that it has had the drive and ability to connect tradition with the future. The Politecnico Calzaturiero Veneto was set up in 2001 to provide operators of the shoe industry with decisive responses to their development and service needs. A long tradition of quality, craftsmanship of the highest standard, and the determination to look constantly to the future find full expression in the work of the Politecnico. One of the areas to which the Politecnico Calzaturiero has a strong commitment is training. The school’s teaching staff is made up of entrepreneurs, professional designers and technical experts from the industry who offer high quality teaching and ongoing development of training programmes and opportunities. One of the most significant of these is the three-month Course for Footwear Stylists and Model Makers which offers a route for talented young people to embark on a successful career in the shoe industry. In more general terms, the work of the Politecnico Calzaturiero involves: - running the School for Footwear Model Makers and Technicians which has provided diploma courses sin­ce 1923 to prepare young people to become designers, model makers and shoe production technicians; - developing permanent training initiatives for young diploma holders and seminars for young entrepreneurs; working alongside Professional and Technical Institutes to train young people for careers in the shoe industry.   The School for Shoe Model Makers is distinguished from other shoe industry schools in Italy and Europe, by the mixture of four fundamental aspects that cannot be found in any other training schools: Traditions - the School was founded in 1923 and in its 78 years of history, besides receiving numerous awards at local, national and European level, it has also contributed to the growth of the shoe industry in the Veneto, with the greater part of entrepreneurs, model makers and technicians who now operate in our Region having sat at its desks. Not by chance the Brenta Rivera is famous throughout the world for the quality and style of the women's shoes that are designed and manufactured here, and it is one of the areas of the highest density of model making studios for the design and production of samples for Companies throughout the world, while Montebelluna is the world leader for the design and production of many different types of sporting-technical shoes. Co-operation with the shoe industry world - co-operation with industry and, above all, with ACRIB (the Riviera del Brenta Shoe Industry Association) has been fundamental in giving an active contribution to stimulate development and modernisation. The Teaching Staff - the teachers are all business people, designers, model makers and technicians in the shoe industry, all animated by great passion and willing to dedicate a part of their time to professional training, because they feel it is important to continue the training traditions which they, in turn, had received firsthand. Synergy with the other activities of the Politecnico Calzaturiero which holds the School - for about ten years now, the School's activities have been included in the wider context of the Politecnico Calzaturiero which, besides training activities, also develops services for Technological Research, Materials Quality Control for the shoe industry. The organisation and control functions of the teachers, and the synergies of the other activities that have been developed, have granted extensive development of the programmes and teaching instruments.

The Euro Mediterranean Academy has contributed for years training new fashion, jewellery, food and global design designers in the Euro Mediterranean area. The choice of founding the Academy, comes from the consideration that today, thanks to globalization, you can create and produce anywhere. One of the most important advantages of its presence in the territory is to represent a meeting point for all creative people in the Euro Mediterranean area, where you can acquire a strong sense of professionalism, through living in a context rich of energy, incentives, history and tradition. Harim | Euro-Mediterranean Academy is an institution of higher education recognized and accredited by the Sicily Region, CIR EE 2002. It 'also certified with quality system' ISO 9001:2000 for the design and provision of higher education post-graduate and post-university 'in the areas of fashion, jewelry, food and global design. In a continuously evolving society, training renews as well. The Euro Mediterranean Academy changes its programs periodically , anticipating cultural trends, technological innovations and costume phenomena. The guidelines are: Workshop training The training hours are based on full immersion formula to get young students used to business rhythm. Moreover, laboratory, back stage and creative office experiences, help to create a real contact with the working world. The academy is organized and equipped with professional machines. Guided by expert teachers, where you can learn all the “job” ´secrets. Limited class size To gain admission on the courses you need to take part in a pre selective interview and an aptitude test, to verify your creative and artistic-cultural knowledge for future students. The limited number allows us to create a selected environment, that is highly competitive. Visibility to students The main protagonists in each training course are Academy students. At the end of the courses, all of them have the opportunity to confront with the press, firms and expert critics, thanks to their participation at important national and international events. Who the teachers are Teachers are far from the austere academic figure, giving space to show free expression of their individual personality. They are professionals coming from more diversified fields of fashion, jewellery, global design and food. Their peculiarity is their direct experience and capability to communicate trends and changes, placed as an emerging talents´service. Partner & stage Euro Mediterranean Academy works together with institutions and businesses in producing events, casting, fashion event, conducting research, and guiding students to employment through internships. Graduates from Academia have the opportunity to work in the most important companies, thanks also to their internships, during which they have the opportunity to learn and put their knowledge to practical use. Accademia Euromediterranea by Studio Ferrera, via G.D’Annunzio 31, 95128, Catania Tel. 095-7164138 - Fax 1782743205 - P.I. 03672840877 www.harim.it - info@harim.it Services to the students Placement All students enrolled for one of the courses can benefit by placement service, that has the function of careers guidance. Placement helps the student to move the first steps in the working world, starting from its expectations and needs, searching for the right firm or sector in which to start their own adventure as a professional. Work experience office Periods of work experience in firms are scheduled at the end of the training period. Work experience in firms is an effective way for a young designer to gain professionalism as they have the opportunity to make themselves conspicuous in the hosting companies. Career Guidance Office The orientation office puts students in contact with the working world, giving them suggestions about how to face an interview or engagement. The office has a data bank of all graduated students’ careers, efficiency/ profit and characteristics. This information is accessible to human resources departments and firms that want to have them. European Curriculum All students are helped in their curriculum and a reference letter compilation, as requested from the working world. Role Playing The Academy applies an active training method providing situation and events simulation. This lets the student play an active role and understand its mechanisms. Even working interviews are simulated to prepare students for a successful presentation of themselves. Strategies consulting In case of commercial activity launching, the student is helped along the way to present his product from a graphic, logistic, advertising point of view, as well as events participation, brand and website creation. Self empowerment Through individual lessons and interviews the student is prepared to strengthen their own personal competence through the development of their skill of choice, gaining awareness of their own resources and targets.

NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano, founded in 1980, is the largest and most innovative private academy in Italy. NABA offers undergraduate and post-graduate programs in the fields of design, fashion design, graphics, multimedia arts, theatre design and visual arts. NABA is recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education, University  and Research. All degrees are Bologna compliant, ensuring that  students’ degrees are recognized internationally. Currently 1,800 students attend NABA.

The Venice Academy of Fine Art can very well be represented by those artists who helped the growth of new generations among whom Piazzetta, Tiepolo, Zanchi, Diziani, Morlaiter, Selva, Canova, Hayez, Lipparini, Mateini, Grigoletti, Politi, Molmenti, Favretto, Nono, Ciardi, Milesi, Tito, Cadorin, Cesetti, Saetti, Giuliani, Arturo Martini, Alberto Viani, Mario de Luigi, Carlo Scarpa, Afro, Santomaso, Emilio Vedova. These names are only part of what the Venice Academy was able to express thus  becoming one of the most prestigious international art institutions. Less than 250 years from its foundation, the Venice Academy of Fine Art moved from its historical headquarters at the Carità church - where the Accademia galleries will be showing the artistic heritage in its full view - to the building better known as Ospedale degli Incurabili. The task that the Venice Academy has to fulfill nowadays is that of educating and building students at the higher cultural and artistic level. Bearing this in mind, courses have been functionally renovated and new ones have started on an experimental basis. They have the target of supplying new knowledges and practical instruments in accordance with students personal interests and individual vocations and attitudes so that new and additional professional figures and job positions can be created. The Venice Academy of Fine Art is a high level cultural institution in the art field and belongs to the university degree of school formation.

The undergraduate degree programme in fashion provides fundamental preparation in the different sectors of the clothing and fashion design industry. The programme aims at training fashion designers who will be capable of working not only in the different apparel fields (clothing, accessories, street style and sportswear), but also in the complex production and commercial system of the fashion industry. A designer able -to plan, design, and organise a fashion collection, -to utilise diverse instruments and languages critically, and to reflect on the fashion industry as a cultural and communicative system. Over the 3-year degree programme, students will acquire the basic knowledge and learn to use techniques needed for designing clothes and accessories, for fashion communication, and for the realisation of complex projects, through both individual and group work. The educational programme is divided into design-research workshops and theoretical and technical courses. The applied workshops give students experience in designing, planning, model dressing, and in defining a collection through material and fabric research. The theory-based courses aim to give students an adequate introduction in historical and critical disciplines (history of fashion and clothing, history of art, contemporary history), with particular attention on the theory and analysis of fashion as a materially and culturally lived phenomenon through the social science disciplines (fashion theory and criticism, semiotics, anthropology, sociology). The technical courses consist of courses in computers, technology of fabrics, materials, design, and model-making. In addition, students will learn how to detect the rapid changes in style and trends in the field and the role of the product within the entire fashion system, through courses in economy, marketing, communication, trend research, and comparative studies with other design, art and cultural fields. The 3-year programme is divided into nine didactic periods (three per academic year). Students acquire 180 university credits (CFU) – in the form of workshops, theory-based courses, elective activities, final art and theatre workshops, writing for the arts and theatre workshops, language exams and final exams – until the completion of the academic programme established for the degree programme at the time of enrolment. Beginning with the second year of studies, the design workshops (2, 3, 4, 5) are divided into a Clothing Design Workshop and an Accessories Design Workshop. Each trimester students must choose to attend one of the two workshops mentioned above. The programme’s secretary office, according to the availability of places and choices made by students, will be responsible for student placement. Students must take exams relative to the year of study in which they are enrolled. Students may not attend or take exams for workshops of subsequent years unless they have passed all exams for the previous year’s workshops. The first academic semester of the third year is reserved for internship activities at companies in the industry. In the second semester of the second year of study, students may choose between clothing design workshops or accessory design workshops, in order to prepare them for the working world or for further studies at a graduate level. The third year of study students will partake in a mandatory internship with a firm in the fashion and design field. The programme admits a total of 60 students, plus 5 non-EU students. Candidates in possession of a secondary school leaving certificate or an equivalent degree issued outside Italy and recognised by the Italian Republic, and who pass the admissions test, are allowed to enrol in the degree programme. Degrees are issued after the attainment of 180 credits. In order to enrol in the degree programme all candidates must pass an admissions test, taken after having pre-enrolled on line.

IED is an expanding international network that operates in the area of training and research in the disciplines of Design, of Fashion, of the Visual Arts and of Communications. It is a large creative workshop, flexible and dynamic, which builds on the Italian cultural matrix of its culture, enriching it with the most innovative viewpoints gathered from every corner of the planet: a school of design that organises training curricula for talented people with creative ambitions of every age and every tongue. Our mission: to create cultured citizens of the world, its innovators; people with the ability to make their own dreams come true with enthusiasm, liberty and responsibility.

IADE was a pioneer on Portugal’s Design and Advertising Educational System, establishing in 1969 the first “Design” degree (3 years attendance, like the actual 1st grade cycles according to the Bolognia Convention. Simultaneously, IADE was one the first national institutes where Marketing and Photography was taught. Nowadays IADE has 1700 (one thousand and seven hundred) students, within 3 bachelors degrees and 7 Masters degrees. According to CNAVES - Conselho Nacional de Avaliação Externa do Ensino Superior (The National University Education External Evaluation Committee) and its evaluation on the Design and Arts degrees, published on the first semester of 2006 (Two thousand and six), based upon a comparative analysis of all the degrees, we can proudly say that IADE is the Best Design University in Portugal. We hope and we will keep working to keep the leadership of IADE in the Design Teaching at university standards as well as to improve our qualification in Marketing, mainly in Advertising and Communication and to boost our training options in the existing subjects of Photography and Visual Culture. - Today IADE is being positioned as a Creative  University. - During these last years, IADE has been developing an internationalization process, through the research framework of UNIDCOM - Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação (The Research Unit for Design and Communication), being supported by the Multiple annual Supporting Program of FCT (Science and Technology Foundation), since 2003, as well through the design and marketing universities’ international networking.

"George Enescu" University of Arts from Iasi, is the only arts higher education institution in Romania which includes three main artistic domains (visual arts, music and theatre). It is the successor of the first arts education institution in Romania, established in 1860, and it is a dynamic school based on strong traditions. The professional and cultural mission of the University is based on a synthesis of universal, national and local values. It is structured in three faculties: Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Musical Interpretation and Faculty of Musical Pedagogy, Composition, Theatre. A wide range of courses is offered to students, organized in a large number of arts specialties. The study programs are structured in three levels: first-degree courses (BA), Master of Arts courses and Doctoral studies. Continuous improvement of the didactic process and permanent observation of quality issues emerging from the new European context are basic principles involved in the development strategy of "George Enescu" University of Arts. "George Enescu" University of Arts from Iasi is a constant observer and actor in the process of European development, mainly in educational and cultural areas. The global aim of the University’s internationalization strategy is to prepare the students to be part of a multicultural community and information society, in order to facilitate their future artistic activity and opportunities for employment. International activity of the University consists of contracted international co-operation (LLP / Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, CEEPUS), artistic manifestations of teaching staff and students and, finally, internationalisation 'at home'. The Faculty of Fine Arts organizes several undergraduate study programmes (Fine Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Photography and Video; Textile Arts: Fashion Design, Textile Design; Mural Arts; Conservation-Preservation; Ceramics; Design: Graphic, Industrial, Environmental) and also Master of Arts and Doctoral studies. The most recent interest of "George Enescu" University consists of promoting and developing international-level research and cultural centers, international arts publications, organizing international artistic events.