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EDITION 03/2005
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Project News
World Wool Award (WWA)
IWTO launches the Edition 2006
of the World Wool Award, a
project kindly sponsored by The
Woolmark Company. The aims
of the project are to emphasize
the positive and natural properties
of wool, to stimulate future
research work and innovations of
product development and to
communicate ideas of marketing
and promotion of wool products.
The projects that will be
awarded by IWTO should deal
with matters of the wool sector,
its fashion, marketing or innovation.
As in the last edition, the
competition is open in three
categories in which the awards
will be given:
1. Fashion & Design
2. Marketing & Promotion
3. Concept & Innovation
The winner in each category will
be promoted on the IWTO website
for the period of one year
and each winner will be invited to
participate in the IWTO Annual
Congress 2006, to be held in
Cairo, Egypt. The prize
includes free accommodation,
travel costs,
Congress fee, and an
exhibition area at the
Congress.
The application form as
well as the information
brochure about the
World Wool Award
can be downloaded
from our website
www.iwto.org.
International Student Exchange Programme (ISEP)
The process of searching
relevant placements
for 10 outstanding students
taking part in the
first edition of ISEP is
finished. All participants
started or will start
within the next days
their traineeships
sponsored by AWI.
Please find below the list of students
and their host companies.
In the next editions of the Newsletter
you will get a report from
the placements.
More information concerning the
ISEP Project can be found under
the IWTO webpage:
www.iwto.org/Projects/student.htm
List of ISEP students and their host companies:
Mrs. Eglantine Baussan, (France), University of New South Wales, Australia
Mrs. Ana Cristina da Luz Broega, (Portugal), Deakin University, Australia
Mrs. Benedetta Corsi, (Italy), The NZ Merino Company Ltd., New Zealand
Mrs. Maria Grubert, (Germany), the Macquarie Textiles Group Ltd., Australia
Mr. Sudhakar Jaganathan, (India), DWI, Germany
Mr. Jasti Vamshi Krishna, (India), Ningbo Youngor Woolen Dyeing & Finishing Co. Ltd., China
Mr. Yuqing Liu, (China), AWTA, Australia
Mr. Andrew Shannon, (Australia), International Development Centre Canesis Ltd., UK
Mrs. Yan Zhang, (China), CSIRO, Australia
Mr. Kanfeng Wang, (China), CSIRO, Australia
Apparel Test Marketing Project
IWTO is launching
a Test
Marketing Project
with the
goal of repositioning
wool in the
women’s wear sector.
"The Apparel Task Force’s visionary
proposal, which told us that
before we embarked on any wide
spread marketing program for
wool we should seek to demonstrate,
clearly and without question,
that sophisticated, well targeted
promotion can and will
work."
Michael Lempriere,
IWTO President.
IWTO Interior
Textiles Project
This strategic project of IWTO
will analyse and identify the future
directions of the interior
textile industry. It will identify
the needs and measures that are
mandatory to the wool industry
in order to play a major role in
the industrial textile business in
the future.