PROJECTS

EU-TEXTILE2030 projects

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Members’ projects

Ongoing projects carried out in cooperation amongst EU-TEXTILE2030 members.


GALACTICA – Smart Industrial innovation as enabler to drive new value chains for textiles and aerospace

Program: INNOSUP-01

Consortium:

AEI TÈXTILS (Spain)
ATEVAL (Spain)
NTT (Italy)
EBAN (Belgium)
CORALLIA (Greece)
PRODUTECH (Portugal)
Science Park Graz (Austria)
Pole EMC2 (France)
Fundación Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía (Spain)
Süderelbe AG (Germany)

Start date: September 2020

End date: February 2023

Objectives:

GALACTICA aims to facilitate the creation of new industrial value chains around the textile and aerospace industries based on advanced manufacturing. The project will enable the uptake of industrial intelligent systems and Industrial Internet of Things as strategic drivers for innovation in the textile and aerospace sectors.

The project will launch two calls for proposals to support SMEs, the first on March 2021 and the second on January 2022, with a total budget of 2,8M€.

Each call will include two support lines for SMEs:

  • Pioneer Acceleration: targeting SMEs developing a minimum viable product or prototype with a maximum funding of 20.000€ per company.
  • Orbital projects: targeting SME consortia (minimum 2), focusing the development of a functional demonstrator, with a maximum funding of 100.000€ per project or 50.000€ per SME.

Website: under construction

 

TEXGLOBAL – European Innovative Textiles Go International: Innovative Global Value Chain Creation And Textile Global Markets Exploration

Program: COSME

Consortium:

NTT (Italy)
AEI TÈXTILS (Spain)
ATEVAL (Spain)
Portuguese Textile Cluster (Portugal)
TECHTERA (France)

Start date: September 2020

End date: August 2022

Objective:

TEXGLOBAL aims at supporting the growth, the competitiveness and industrial modernization of European Textile companies by facilitating internationalization and innovation activities.

The main actions which will be carried out are:

  • Market reports and business trips to: United States, Mexico and Vietnam
  • Join participation at international trade-fairs.
  • Participation at and organization of matchmaking events and networking activities.

Website: under construction

 

CLAMTEX – Cluster management towards excellence in Advanced Manufacturing and Textile Industry

Program: COSME

Consortium:

AEI TÈXTILS (Spain)
ATEVAL (Spain)
PRODUTECH (Portugal)
CITEVE (Portugal)
Pole EMC2 (France)

Start date: February 2020

End date: January 2022

Objective: CLAMTEX aims to strengthen cluster management excellence to boost the specialized technical textile innovation eco-system by promoting the cross-sectoral and cross-regional collaboration to facilitate the uptake of digitalization within and beyond the partnership.

Website: www.clamtex.eu

 

 

 

European Network to connect research and innovation efforts on advanced Smart Textiles

Program: COST

Leadership:

Action Chair (Ariadna Detrell, AEI TÈXTILS (ES))
Action Vice-Chair (Bruno Mougin, TECHTERA (FR))

Start date: October 2018

End date: October 2022

Objective: The main objective of CONTEXT is to join efforts at European level to facilitate the market uptake of new advanced textile materials, reducing the gap between research and industry. This goal can only be achieved involving all the major stakeholders of the process: universities, technological centers, industry and end-users under the coordination from one of the main tools which contributes to the improvement of competitiveness and productivity of the different economic sectors in the European environment: the clusters.

CONTEXT is structured in 6 working groups, 5 of them focused on different applications of advanced textile materials: healthcare/medical, automotive and aeronautics, personal protection, building and living, sports and wearables. The sixth group focus is dissemination and communication.

Website: www.context-cost.eu

 

 

SMARTX – European Smart Textiles Accelerator

Program: Horizon 2020

Consortium:

TEXTILE ETP (Belgium)
EURAMATERIALS (France)
CITTÀ STUDI – PO.IN.TEX (Italy)
HÖGSKOLAN I BORAS (Sweden)
TEXFOR (Spain)
CITEVE (Portugal)
DSP VALLEY (Belgium)
CITC EURARFID (France)
DEUTSCHE INSTITUTE FUR TEXTILE (Germany)
CENTEXBEL (Belgium)
STEINBEIS INNOVATION (Germany)
INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE LA MODE (France)
SOURCEBOOK (Germany)

Start date: May 2018

End date: April 2021

Objectives:

      • Build a European Innovation Ecosystem for Smart Textiles Industrialisation – bring all interested players together.
      • Improve innovation capacity and market exploitation potential of promising SME’s and Start-Up’s manufacturing smart textiles materials, components, products or related technology – create a portfolio of up to 40 trailblazer projects.
      • Improve the smart textiles innovation support and coaching competences of clusters and other SME support organisations – provide effective SME support at local & regional level.
      • Replicate the systemic approach to cross-sectoral SME innovation and accelerator funding beyond the SmartX project to other markets.

SmartX project will fund up to 40 projects with up to 60K€ per SME.

Website: www.smartx-europe.eu  

 

 

TEX4IM – Textile Clusters for Industrial Modernisation

Program: COSME

Consortium:

OTIR2020 – TUSCANY FASHION CLUSTER (Italy)
ASTRICO NORD-EST (Romania)
ATEVAL (Spain)
PORTUGUESE TEXTILE CLUSTER – CITEVE (Portugal)
CLUTEX (Czech Republic)
CITTÀ STUDI – PO.IN.TEX (Italy)
SMART TEXTILES (Sweden)
EURAMATERIALS (France)

Start date: October 2018

End date: April 2021

Objectives:

        • Set up a sustainable incubator and accelerator system for the generation of joint investment projects in TC and other related or cross-linkable sectors;
        • To develop a joint strategy for industrial modernization of TC sector of Europe;
        • To accelerate the uptake of innovation and increase of production by TC SMEs, thanks to a more focused and effective R&D matching and a more efficient design of new business models and value chains

A portfolio of minimum 24 business opportunities will be generated, with 10 business plans developed and full investment projects identified for the best 5. In the longer term, 3 investment projects per year, for a period of 5 years after the end date are ensured by the partnership.

Website: www.tex4im.eu/the-project/

 

 

ALLIANCE – Alliance for International Business Development of Advanced Materials and CoNnectivity for DefenCe and SEcurity Markets

Program: COSME

Consortium:

TECHTERA (France)
CITTÀ STUDI – PO.IN.TEX (Italy)
NEXT TECHNOLOGY TECNOTESSILE (Italy)
POLE SOLUTIONS COMMUNICANTES SECURISEES (France)
PEGASE – SAFE CLUSTER (France)
SIIT (Italy)
STICHING NEDERLANDSE INDUSTRIE VOOR DEFENSIE EN VEILIGHEID (Netherlands)

Start date: September 2018

End date: August 2020

Objectives:

  • Intensify collaboration between European defence and security clusters on advanced materials, notably technical textiles, and connectivity.
  • Develop joint strategies in areas of dual use technologies, products and services towards non-EU countries.

The project is focused on 3 key markets with an appetite for defence/dual use technologies and products: the USA, Japan and South Korea. The project develop knowledge on these markets. International joint missions opened to SMEs members of the partners of the consortium for building partnerships (both in business and technology) were organised.

Website: www.clustercollaboration.eu/escp-profiles/alliance 

 

 

LIFE-FLAREX – Mitigation of environmental impact caused by flame retardant textile finishing chemicals

Program: LIFE

Consortium:

AEI TÈXTILS (Spain)
ATEVAL (Spain)
CENTEXBEL (Belgium)
CITTÀ STUDI – PO.IN.TEX (Italy)
CLUTEX (Czech Republic)
IQAC-CSIC (Spain)
LEITAT (Spain)

Start date: July 2017

End date: June 2020

Objectives:

Main objective:

  • Mitigation of the environmental and health impacts caused by hazardous compounds resulting from halogenated-, antimony- and formaldehyde- containing Flame Retardants textile finishing products on European ecosystems, by analysing the best available textile finishing products and implementing those innovative technologies for FR applications in the interior textile contracting.

Other objectives:

  • Evaluation of the technical performance of conventional FR products and their alternatives, both at lab and industrial scale.
  • Determination of the environmental, toxicological and risk assessment of the conventional and alternative FR compounds.
  • Identification of FRs with lower environmental and health impact and better performances to elaborate a road map and policy recommendations for chemical regulation, Ecolabel, OEKO-TEX® and Green Public Procurement.

Website: www.life-flarex.eu