What happened
Bossa Ticaret ve Sanayi İşletmeleri T.A.Ş. and Kızanlıklı Academy have signed an implementation partnership agreement for MEDSHIFTGREEN, an initiative backed through the European Union’s Interreg NEXT MED programme.
The agreement envisages a Green Lab at Bossa. The textile company is expected to allocate premises for the facility, coordinate involvement by students, interns and employees, and contribute to the development of training and practical activity plans. Its role is intended to ensure that the work reflects production processes and industry requirements.
Planned Green Lab activity includes digital and face-to-face courses, workshops and pilot work. Proposed learning themes cover sustainable textiles and materials, circular fashion and production approaches, responsible consumption, green design, and supply-chain change. Digital tools are also expected to be provided to support interactive, practice-based learning.
For organisations tracking textile skills initiatives, the next step is to follow the development of the lab and its planned pilot activities during the project.
Why it matters
The partnership gives MEDSHIFTGREEN a proposed workplace setting in which to connect youth learning with textile manufacturing experience. Participants are expected to build knowledge and practical capability relevant to the sector’s environmental transition, while Bossa contributes operational experience to the education and project-development process.
The arrangement also creates a planned route for testing educational activities alongside industrial practice. This may help link course content and practical programmes more directly with the needs identified in textile production.
Project delivery
MEDSHIFTGREEN has a 36-month duration. The University of Macedonia in Greece coordinates the project. Kızanlıklı Academy in Türkiye, the Lebanese Development Network in Lebanon and the Center for Social Innovation in Cyprus are listed as participating organisations.
According to SKD Türkiye, the project brings nature-based solutions and green technologies into educational activity, with the aim of enabling young people to gain applied sustainability experience and develop responses to environmental challenges.
