WHO WE ARE

HISTORY

CEDECS SARL, created in 1987, mainly worked until 2004 on market studies in the telecoms sector, development of software and IT services and distance training for European SMEs.

From 2004, the activity refocused on the conduct of R&D projects, advice and service for SMEs in the textile-clothing sector, in collaboration, until 2012, with the IFTH (French Institute of Textile Clothing) and other French, Italian, Greek and Cypriot partners and customers after 2012.

Cedecs-TCBL SAS succeeded CEDECS SARL in 2020 and is based on a multidisciplinary and multinational team of associated experts. The team supports the transformation of the textile-clothing sector towards a sustainable, united and circular sector in the continuity of the TCBL (Textile & Clothing Business Labs) project, and with the network it has created since 2015: more than 50 laboratories of innovation (for alternative systems integrating ecology, economy and society), more than 250 companies (to test and refine these innovations in real conditions, with a view to their scaling up) and online development platforms of this network. (www.tcbl.eu)

EXPERTISE

The team includes 20 senior and experienced consultants, of 10 different nationalities, with varied profiles, economists, urban planners, designers, managers, entrepreneurs, makers, etc.

The team shares a common vision:

• Change the sector model,

• Develop business models and innovative solutions,

• Imagine, test and scale.

This expertise is implemented in different ways:

• Multi-country R&D projects mainly in the European and Euro-Mediterranean area,

• Advice for the in-depth transformation of SMEs in the textile-clothing sector,

• Contribution of experiences on specific production and relocation issues, at any stage of the value chain.

Cedecs-TCBL has made available a Gender Equality and Diversity Plan 2023-2025

ACTIVITIES

CEDECS-TCBL's main activities are:

• Develop European networks of sustainable innovation,

• Stimulate technological and social innovation and the creativity of these networks,

• Transform these networks into sustainable ecosystems,

• Facilitate the training of new entrepreneurs

• Facilitate the engagement of new partners in these ecosystems,

• Manage the platform and services of the TCBL Association.

Our major areas of achievement:

• Write R&D roadmaps or political recommendations, to facilitate the transition to the circular economy, the emergence of a greater diversity of sectors (beyond petro-sourced), the relocation of production in local areas, the promotion of new generations of innovators, or cross-sector added value (e.g. agri-textiles),

• Redeploy, promote and transfer creative and technical know-how, through training systems based on practice, collaborative communities, and tools to give everyone the opportunity to innovate,

• Prospectively explore the deployment of sustainable, technical and intelligent textiles, or transformations in the footwear sector,

• Develop creative confrontations between the arts and the sector, and facilitate the creation of works of art representative of the new challenges and goals to be achieved to radically transform the textile-clothing or footwear sector.