####InnovationLocale

CreativeWear Plus

Artistic and textile creation

To close the CreativeWear Plus project and imagine the paths of tomorrow, several conferences and round tables were organized by the project's creative hubs. This gave us the opportunity to verify how important artistic creation is to innovate in the textile sector, particularly on blind spots such as unused or non-compliant textiles, the unexpected results of co-production between the first prototype of an artist and a textile manufacturer or even the largely underutilized talents of citizens in this sector.

After a European conference and an exhibition at the Prato Museum on June 22 where the project partners came from Greece, Bosnia, Italy, France and Portugal to present their experiences and achievements, a day's visit to Prato and Florence allowed us to observe that dynamism and creativity have lost none of their vigor despite the Covid crisis.

On June 28, a conference and exhibition in Montélimar will close the project activities on the achievements in France of the PRISME cooperative, assisted by CedecsTCBL and the project's Greek partner, Cre.Thi.Dev.

####CommunityBuilding

HEREWEAR

Herewear in Antwerp

Thank you to our speakers, our participants and Circuit for contributing to the success of Herewear Day in Antwerp, a day to better understand the fashion vision of the city of Antwerp and to address the themes of bio-materials, design or local production serving a sustainable, responsible and circular textile sector. Several moments punctuated this day: inspirations, sharing, concrete workshops and connections. A day already re-scheduled for next year!

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####InnovationSociale

shemakes

Contextualize

Eighteen innovation labs have developed activities in the second phase of the shemakes.eu project. Some of these activities are inspired by the first phase and adapted to local cultures, others are entirely new and designed to help all women to dare to innovate in the textile – clothing sector. If we must remember one key idea from this adventure, it is the pleasure of freeing oneself from one's own barriers: “I thought it was hard (to innovate), but actually, once I got going, well guided, it was great!” More information on the shemakes site

####CommunityNetwork

CedecsTCBL

Our general meeting of June 22 made it possible to integrate new members into SAS CedecsTCBL and Athanasius Contargyris, the founder of the company who has run it for 35 years, to hand over to Frédérique Thureau , general director, who will become president in August. The partners thanked the President for all the work accomplished with TCBL since 2015. As a reminder, CedecsTCBL is the SAS which, within the TCBL movement, participates in and coordinates new projects in the service of a responsible and sustainable textile-clothing sector.

####InnovationTextile

FOSTEX

Project evaluation visit to Jordan

CedecsTCBL, external evaluator of the FOSTEX project, submitted its evaluation report after participating in the final conference of this project in Amman and having visited the BAU University in Al-Salt, and the technical centers set up by the project, in Jordan.

This ERASMUS project is ending having fulfilled its objectives both in Morocco and Jordan where 4 textile technical centers were created in the universities participating in the project. They will serve the testing and innovation needs of local industries.

These centers will help them in particular to find solutions to better take into account environmental standards and to adapt to the requirements of sustainable and circular development. To know more