CEDECS-TCBL newsletter April 2022

NEWSLETTER 9 • MARS 2022

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####CommunityNetwork

CreativeWear PLUS

New hub creative textile for Prisme

Prisme develops its hubs textie creative within the CreativeWear PlUS Mediterranean network funded by the Interreg MED program funded by the European Union. This hub promots meetings and the ermergence of ideas and new projects between artists, designers, creatives and textile and clothing companies. The artistic works produced will be exhibited at the Textile Museum in Prato (Italy) in June 2022. The current projects are linked to upcycling, embroidery, sustainable fabric libraries or the revaluation of the wool sector in local and circular production and they link a network of entrepreneurs - cooperators or more generally of actors who wish to have an impact on the sector. Cedecs-TCBL, subcontractor of CreThiDev (Greek partner of the project) is assisting PRISME in the establishment and development of this hub.

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HEREWEAR

Success for the first HEREWEAR community meetups

The HEREWEAR community brings together as of today, around a hundred companies, associations, institutions and independents in Europe who seek to obtain in-depth information on biosourced fibers, to carry out projects in common, to create local and networked production ecosystems, and to develop the positive impact of this new sector.

Members of the community, once admitted, have access to a privileged space for information, exchange and co-operation on the project, and on three themes in particular: local production ecosystems, circular design applied to biosourced fibers and biosourced fibers.

Do you work or want to develop your skills in one of these areas? Welcome to the HEREWEAR community by filling out the registration form onherewear.tcbl.euand find the videos of these first meetups.

CEDECS-TCBL

Official launch of TCBL Association, the non-profit organization of the TCBL movement

We are pleased to announce that a Dutch non-profit organization, TCBL Association, has been formed in Amsterdam, to formally bring together and expand the TCBL network of laboratories and companies formed under the TCBL project, funded by the H2020 program until June 2019. Jesse Marsh, former coordinator of the TCBL project and shareholder of CEDECS-TCBL is the president and many partner organizations of current CEDECS-TCBL projects are or will become members. This non-profit association will contribute, according to its statutes, to increasing the quality and sustainability of the textile and clothing sector by developing and supporting skills and exchanges between the numerous players in the sector. We wish him a long and fruitful life and cooperation with us!

####WomenEmpowering

shemakes

Science and textiles - fashion

Girls and women in science were invited to share, face to face or online, their trajectories from science or technology to textile creativity or fashion business and vice versa. In these conversations, they shared their experience of the imposture — a notion developed in the late 1970s to describe the feeling women had when working in so-called jobs masculine — a feeling that 75% of women still experience in 2020, as shown by this survey carried out for Parity Conference .

Any real-life advice to overcome it? Develop self-confidence and pride in your achievements, align your professional life with your history or culture, prioritize meaningful work through social and sustainable businesses. Further conversations will take place throughout 2022, marking theEuropean Year of Youth.

Don't hesitate to participate by following shemakes on the web and social networks.

####InnovationLocale

WINTEX

WINTEX Tunisian partners receive cutting-edge technological machines

During the last week, USF/ISAMS received some equipment from the WINTEX innovation center which will allow this institution to strengthen the capacities of the textile sector in Tunisia. The three partner higher institutes will be able to use these technological resources to acquire new know-how and skills within the centers, promote the transfer of knowledge through new services and strengthen networks and synergies with industry. This step is essential to achieve the objectives of the WINTEX project: strengthening the capacities of partner universities and the creation of a Textile Industry Academy which will be the sustainable catalyst for this initiative.

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####ShortCut

Regenerative fashion and its relationship to agriculture

Linking agriculture to textile production is an ancestral model, making it possible to reuse agricultural waste (or aquatic plants) to make shoes or textiles. A further step has been taken in recent years to ensure that the fiber comes from regenerative agriculture, an agriculture which repairs the harms of intensive production – less deep plowing, less pesticides, less water, more rotation of crops. plantations, more cohabitation of plants of different species allowing each to benefit from the contribution of the others – or which trap carbon – such as algae. This is one of the ways of limiting the environmental footprint linked to fiber production at the source and thus contributing to the systemic reduction of the environmental footprint of the sector, provided that it is verified that all the impact parameters are price taken into account… otherwise, green washing in perspective !

####ShortCut

Did you say relocation? Thank you pandemic

The recent IFM study shows that the relocation of production in France and Europe is the priority choice of brands and retailers surveyed on transformations in the textile – clothing sector in France (42% in 2022, or more than twice more than in 2020 - 18%). This spectacular progression echoes the strong need to secure production experienced at the time of the pandemic (65% in 2022 and 20 points more vs. 2020).

####ShortCut

Plastic-eating bacteria?

Since the first discovery in 2008 in Japan of bacteria capable of producing plastic-eating enzymes, much research has been carried out to accelerate the resorption of plastic waste. Latest study to date: Swedish researchers have identified 30,000 enzymes capable of destroying at least 10 different plastics... a remedy which, however, should not be used as an excuse to consume even more plastic.

####ShortCut

MIT scientists have created a recyclable plastic that is twice as strong as steel: plasteel

Plastic is spontaneously associated with this flexible and malleable material that we use for bags, containers or everyday objects. But plastic also generates fundamental research to resolve other industrial challenges, such as producing an alternative to steel. It is the revolution of bio-dimensional polymers, light, resistant, and twice as efficient as steel which overall have a much lower environmental footprint than steel.

####MesLiensTextile

Dive into circular fashion with Andrée-Anne Lemieux , head of the Kering chair at the French fashion institute

Ralph Lauren's Olympic jackets automatically adapt to body temperature using honeycomb textile without battery or wire

From cars to fashion! Hyundai upcycles the textile materials of its cars into a collection integrating paper and BioPET

####MonAgendaTextile

The STAND Up! funded by the European Union, launches a call for applications, from February 16 until March 21, 2022

The aim is to select 50 innovators and entrepreneurs in the Textile, Clothing and Fashion sector, from 5 project partner countries (Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, Spain and Tunisia). The selected entrepreneurs will be trained on project financing and fundraising and will have the opportunity to meet local and regional investors from April 2022. In Tunisia, these are theTunis International Center for Environmental Technologies(CITET) and theTextile Technical Center(CETTEX) who are the partners of this project in charge of this call.

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