Publications

Discover the publications from the ECOSYSTEX community and its members.
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Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP

CISUTAC’s Circular Transition Scenarios & Software for Post-Consumer Textile Waste Channelling

As part of the CISUTAC project, RISE and Centexbel (with the support of other partners) released a comprehensive report titled "Circular Transition Scenarios & Software for Post-Consumer Textile Waste Channelling" that serves as a guiding compass, offering insights into various pathways for Europe's textile industry to achieve a circular future.

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All, Sustainable chemistry Textile ETP All, Sustainable chemistry Textile ETP

IRISS’s Update 1: Analysis of lifecycle steps, the value chains, their stakeholders and initiatives

This updated document analyses lifecycle steps, value chains, stakeholders, and initiatives, with a focused examination of the smart textiles sub-value chain within the broader textiles industry. It explores challenges and opportunities in advancing safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) practices for smart textiles.

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Sustainable chemistry, All Textile ETP Sustainable chemistry, All Textile ETP

IRISS’s Analysis of the value chains, their stakeholders and initiatives

This document provides an analysis of value chains, their stakeholders, and initiatives to support the EU’s transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy through safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) materials and products. As part of the IRISS project, it highlights challenges and opportunities in industries like textiles.

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IRISS’s Skills, knowledge and education needs and gaps and mismatches for the uptake of SSbD

This document explores the skills, knowledge, and education gaps hindering the adoption of safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) principles across various value chains, including textiles. It aims to map training and knowledge needs, identifying mismatches and opportunities to enhance SSbD capacity building for industry stakeholders.

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PROPLANET Deliverable D6.6 [M12]: Health and safety conditions for enhanced safe and sustainable coatings supporting the planet

Deliverable D6.6 Health & safety conditions of PROPLANET addresses considerations related to the human health and safety of the coatings developed within the project. It is connected to task T6.5 Health and Safety Issues, which aims at avoiding exploitation problems of the products in terms of their safety, also in view of the standard regulations.

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SUSTRACK’s report presenting scenarios and related policy packages

The aim of this report is twofold: (i) to identify and describe policy goals that are essential for the transformation to a circular biobased economy (CBBE), and (ii) to develop policy portfolio scenarios for the four focus sectors of the project, namely construction, chemicals, plastics and textiles.

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PROPLANET Deliverable D7.14: Report on replicability cases of enhanced safe and sustainable coatings for supporting the planet

This PROPLANET report outlines the progress of Task 7.5 – Replication Cases (IDE), focusing on developments achieved during the first 12 months of the project. It begins with a detailed overview of the research lines pursued within the PROPLANET initiative. The report then describes the development of the PROPLANET Replication Tool and how end-users will interact with it. Additionally, it presents an initial selection of replication cases to be explored further by Month 36 (Deliverable D7.15). Each selected case includes a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art, along with an analysis of the main global production hubs relevant to each specific technology.

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Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP

RegioGreenTex’s Digital Tool 

The RegioGreenTex tool serves as the digital place to capture the needs and challenges from the different SMEs and match them to relevant SME partners, coaches, experts, courses and more across regions. This digital tool, and all content created within the different Work Packages in the project and shared via the Tool, are made available, for free and exclusively, to all the consortium members for the full duration of the project.

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Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP

RegioGreenTex SME Advisory Service Strategy

This report aims to highlight the complementary activities of RegioGreenTex to design the “SME Advisory Services Strategy”. The various pilots incorporated within the RegioGreenTex initiative have been selected for their elevated degree of circularity, innovativeness, and sustainability, as well as for the significant influence they could generate, not only on the company's business strategy, but also for their scalability in the local, national and international ecosystems.

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HEREWEAR’s Guidelines (Whitepaper) for ‘Bio-based Circular Textile Manufacturing’, with Manufacturing Manual and Glossary

This white paper serves as a vital resource for stakeholders in the textile industry, offering a comprehensive roadmap towards establishing capacities for bio-based circular textile manufacturing.

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Biobased products & materials, All Textile ETP Biobased products & materials, All Textile ETP

MY-FI Public Summary of the main project results and achievements

The public summary is a public deliverable made by the Consortium to briefly explain the project and its main focuses. It is divided into different section based on the various steps of process: biofabrication, post processing and scale up. It also covers the prototyping activities, the sustainability and market exploitation aspects.

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SUSTRACK’s review of approaches and identification of research gaps

This report presents the results of a review of existing knowledge for monitoring and evaluating the transition to circular biobased systems. More than 130 research items, including scientific articles and reports, were consulted to identify major gaps across indicators and approaches generally used to monitor and evaluate the bioeconomy across the three major policy-level analyses: micro-level (products/processes/companies), meso-level (city/regions) and macro-level (World, Europe or countries).

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