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New EU Textiles Strategy
In the framework of the EU Green Deal and the last Circular Economy Action Plan, the European Commission has launched the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles, that addresses the production and consumption of textiles, whilst recognising the importance of the textiles sector.
Measures include a mandatory EU extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme,...
Online event “Looking at new values for the future of grafts and fashion in the Balkan Region”
The event “Looking at new values for the future of grafts and fashion in the Balkan Region” was held on May 5th and 6th, 2021 on the online zoom platform in organization of Fashion Weekend Skopje.
Participation in this two days international event had the Executive Director of the Textile Trade Association – Textile Cluster – Natasha Sivevska who presented...
The Design4Circle project presented at international event in Poland
On April 13th the international on-line conference “International projects for SME’s – Idea’s stock exchange” was held by the University of Lodz (Poland). Among the projects invited to be presented was the Design4Circle project. Stakeholders from Denmark, Spain, Poland, Slovenia and Lithuania attended the conference.
The aims of the conference...
New free online course on circular economy available
Sign up for the Design4Circle course, with a total of 70 hours of training to understand the necessary shift in the textile industry towards a more sustainable circular economy.
Changing our current linear economic model to a circular one is a challenge for the whole society, as we need to manage the use of natural resources while increasing competitiveness, innovation and...
The 6th meeting of the project “Design4circle” 05.02.2021
The 6th meeting of the project “Design4circle” was held on 05.02.2021 (Friday).
The meeting was held on the online platform Microsoft teams. It was attended by project partners.
At the meeting, first the project was discussed and reviewed by the project manager Dana Belakova and at the same time the administrative issues were discussed.
Raquel Ortega Martines...
Design4Circle Minutes of the 4th Technical Meeting 7th May 2020, ZOOM Meeting Venue: ON-LINE ZOOM
Introduction
First of all, there were exchanged information about each partner’s situation in the actual conditions of the pandemic situation. As the 4-th meeting, that should take place in Iasi,was replaced with the on-line session, Dana Belakova (RTU) informed us that there must be justifying documents for hotel or plane tickets in order to be paid.
Next, it was...
4th Technical meeting in Iasi, Romania
Meeting Venue: ON-LINE ZOOM
AGENDA :
7/05/2020 Thursday
11:45 – 12:00 Zoom open
12-12:30
Review of the project – overview, administrative questions, timetable (RTU)
12:30-12:45
Related occupations matched with necessary skills (AMUEBLA&CTCP)
12:45-13:00
Validation of...
Development of training materials – new practices on eco-design
The European industry wants to increase the level of sustainability and innovation in the production and recycling processes. To achieve such purpose, it’s essential that designers create products that have in mind some principles of circular economy. Environmental concern begins with product design.
In order to help designers to reach this goal, the partners from the...