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A webinar that may be of interest to association memembers (it's free to anyone!): Circular Economy in the Creative Industries Webinar Time: 26th February 2025 at 12:00–13:30 UTC. https://lnkd.in/dY9u7uQM

We attended the Transitions Project final conference last week, where we learned about their results and got our hands on their attractive and effective Loopholes Toolkit! We recommend anyone working in training for a sustainable T&C to look into this. We were also amongst other European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) Erasmus+ projects AddTex and SiT - Sustainability in TCLF, and had a few minutes to share our progress, especially our new Green VETRINE course. Read the reflections by Alexandra M. Korey 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d2a68Y6s

🌍 Important announcement: discover our inaugural European Manifesto! ✨ We are pleased to invite you to a significant milestone in our journey towards sustainable fashion: the release of our inaugural European Manifesto! This event will take place in Brussels on February 20th, 2025. 🎤 Our first European event will convene a diverse group of stakeholders — including industry leaders, policymakers, and circularity experts — united by a common goal: to advocate for a transformative agenda that redefines the fashion industry through the principles of circularity. Stay tuned, the full programme will be disclosed soon! 🤝 The unveiling of our Manifesto, developed in collaboration with our +300 member companies, will amplify our advocacy actions at the European scale. In these times of backlash, Europe must recognize circularity as the greatest lever for competitiveness. 🗓️ Date: February 20th, 2025 - 9:30-12:30 📍 Location: Press Club Brussels Europe, Rue Froissart 95, Brussels & on-line Make sure to register through the link in the first comment! We look forward to see you there ✨

In the SHOEDES project, a course developed in the first phase has been used by designers from France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Turkey. In February they'll spend 10 days in Portugal to develop creative prototypes of shoes using second-hand, unused materials. If you'd like to access this free online course to make more #sustainable #shoes, email contact@cedecs-tcbl.com #tclfindustry #euproject

Are you based in Rotterdam or Athens? This call may be of interest!

If you're interested in textile education, join us for the online presentation of a FREE, online course that teaches the basics of sustainable textile production for students interested in becoming textile technicians or fashion designers. We'll talk about how the course was developed in the context of the Vetrine.eu project and are open to questions. Sign up for the online presentation and chat that will take place on January 14th.

#policy / The HEREWEAR vision of a sustainable EU textile sector based on ‘bio-based’, ‘local’ and ‘circular’, touches on the Textile Strategy but also many more EU policies. Consequently, it can benefit from policy measures in many domains. Based on the activities of HEREWEAR, in our policy brief, we phrased concrete recommendations along the following themes: ‘understand the market’, ‘foster a holistic approach to bio-based textiles’, ‘support local and social’, ‘implement a coherent and fair legislative framework’, ‘lead by example via public procurement’ and ‘raise awareness among all stakeholders’. Download and share it today! #textileindustry #eupolicy #policybrief #horizoneurope

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The latest CORDIS Results Pack is on the future of textiles and it highlights how the EU is tackling this challenge, funding research and innovation to create a sustainable, climate-neutral and circular textile sector. It showcases 6 Horizon projects including HEREWEAR, my-fi, SCIRT Project, TRICK Project, New Cotton Project and Glaukos project.

We are excited to share this rich, free resource with you: the brand new HEREWEAR HUB that will be presented on September 17 will provide a range of useful guides, tools and platforms that you can use to create and engage with a community based on biobased, local and circular textile and clothing production. Find out more in the event below - hope to see you there!