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Footwear Design / Shoe Making Courses in Netherlands

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SLEM - International Footwear Education Centre:
SLEM is an international innovation and education institute for footwear. The name is an acronym that stands for Shoes, Leather, Education, Museum. We are providing a unique full-time Master program for Footwear Innovators and a wide range of short courses and workshops for both students and professionals.

Our programs are all based on the synergy of four main pillars: forecasting, design, technology and business. The forecasting and business programs are suitable for other kinds of industries as well, such as leather goods, fashion and industrial design.

SLEM's trend lab is at the heart of all our activities; the continual research and analysis assure that all programs always offer the very latest information, presented by visionary experts from the field. SLEM also provides trend information and consulting to customers around the world, through custom made projects and (online) SLEMinars.

Footwear Innovation Education:

All of our courses are based upon four pillars: forecasting, design, technology and business. The forecasting and business courses are suitable for other kinds of products as well, such as leather goods, fashion and industrial design. SLEM also has a trendlab and gives advise to companies around the world on collection building and long-term developments.

Footwear Education Courses:

Master Footwear Innovation
- 9 month full-time Master program
- Classes take place in Europe and China

Short courses
- Creating better lasts (1 week)
- In-depth 3D design & 3D printing (1 week)
- Wearable technology (1 week)
- Creating a sustainable business model (1 week)
- Creating an innovative business model (1 week)

Career Prospects:

SLEM has an exclusive collaboration with Global Networkers, the only international headhunting agency dedicated entirely to the footwear and leather industry.

This means that they will help judge our master course students and can help them kick start their careers, they will provide their expertise in our (portfolio) courses, while SLEM will provide traning to their candidates for jobs that might need to brush up on certain skills.


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Address: Raadhuisplein 1-2, 5141 KG, Waalwijk, Netherlands
Some interested visitors submitting program inquiries to our school up to 2024-03-28 were from:

Doncaster, UK / GB; United kingfom, UK / GB; Leeds, UK / GB; Kerala, India; Gauteng, South Africa; kerala ,kottayam, India; and more.
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