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Supporting the Just transition for the Fashion sector

Project description

Transforming fashion for a sustainable future

The fashion industry is one of the largest polluters, contributing to global carbon emissions and waste. It drives overproduction, leading to resource depletion and massive textile waste, much of which ends up in landfills. In addition, unsustainable practices in supply chains often lack transparency, hindering efforts to address environmental and social impacts. As the demand for eco-friendly alternatives grows, businesses face increasing pressure to adopt more sustainable models. In this context, the EU-funded Just Fashion project addresses this challenge by providing tools and a reference framework to help fashion businesses transition to lower-carbon, circular and socially inclusive practices. Through mapping, piloting circular business models and developing AI tools, Just Fashion prepares businesses for more sustainable production.

Objective

“Just Fashion”, is set to develop a portfolio of approaches to support and accelerate climate transition in the fashion industry, by providing businesses in the partner countries with a reference framework and tools to shift their production methods, internal procedures
and final products towards more sustainable models that are lower carbon, circular and socially inclusive.

Just Fashion aims to address this problem by
(1) mapping the current state of fashion and sustainability in Europe,
(2) mapping and evaluating tools and on circular business models
(3) create a process of interventions to support these tools and support existing networks in preparing MSMEs and SMEs for the new legislation on the European Green deal.

4 central elements of the projects:
1) Development of a new sustainability index as well as testing and refining several circular business model tools that are already in use in different areas and are already being tested in these countries.
2) Run 6 pilot cases from different regions focussing on different aspects of circularity (end of life, materials, zero waste prototyping, circular business models, recycling techniques, transparency/traceability, ...).
3) Update current instruments and tools in transformation & mitigation
4) Develop the necessary instruments to better prepare (M)SME's for European Green deals in terms of policy regulations (through buidling an AI support tool).

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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
Net EU contribution

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€ 891 281,31
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PRINSSTRAAT 13
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium

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Region
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Antwerpen
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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