Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Programmes (Emjds)

Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Programmes (EMJDs) SMDTex - Sustainable Management and Design for Textiles

The objectives of SMDTex are given as follows. 1) At scientific level, this joint doctorate programme aims at training European and non European PhD students by carrying out international research cooperation on sustainable development oriented textile management and textile design. The gained body of knowledge will offer an opportunity to improve the existing production organisation of textile enterprises, the worldwide textile/apparel supply chain, the transaction and design of textile products, with respect to the criteria of environment, society and human factors. 2) At socio-economic level, this joint doctorate programme aims to establish new and reinforce existing Euro-Asian networks in order to level sustainable development awareness perspectives.

Its ultimate objective is to establish a new international doctorate school, permitting to integrate and reorganise the research and higher educational activities on textile management and design, existing in different European textile universities, around the themes of sustainable development. With these innovative research activities, we wish to significantly change the current situation of textile higher education and research by introducing new industrial requirements and new scientific methodologies.

Consortium:  Partners: ENSAIT Roubaix (FR), University of Boras (SE), Technical University of Iasi (RO), Politecnico di Torino (IT), Soochow University (CN)  Associate partners: AUTEX (EU), Bureau Veritas CODDE (FR), ASTRICO NE (RO), Hongdu (CN), Lindex (SE), Nelly (IT)

Recruitment and training:  10 PhD students (4 European (cat.A) and 6 non European students (cat.B))  Recruitment conditions: masters in textile, management engineering,  information technology, industrial engineering, design engineering,  chemical engineering  Duration: 4 years (3 years in two European institutions, one year in Soochow) Degrees:  Three PhD degrees from the involved universities  From 2016, a joint international doctorate degree

Funding (5 years):  Management: 50K euros/year – project manager, missions, devices, …  Student’s salary: 2800 euros/month/student for 3 years – total 100.8Keuros  The 4th year: Soochow University scholarship for international students  Laboratory cost: 600 euros/month/student for 3 years – courses, devices, books, conferences, …  Travels: 7500 euros for each student – mobility, conferences, workshops  Total funding: almost 6.5M euros for 5 years