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Smart Textiles made from Agriculture and Natural Waste Materials

Project description

What to do with tomato stems waste? Make clothes

Fashion trends are cyclical, usually coming back after 30 years. The same is not true about textiles, which have one of the highest negative life cycle impacts on the environment and climate change. Sustainability is important. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SMARTWASTE project will replace conventional and high costs textile materials with sustainable, environmentally friendly, cheaper and novel materials such as cellulose fibres from tomato stems waste and creating nonwovens from unconventional poplar seed fibres. Bringing together world-class experts in materials and polymers, environmentalists, chemists, software engineers and designers, SMARTWASTE will establish a world-class international and inter-sectoral network of organisations. They will work on a joint research programme in the field of novel Sustainable Smart Textile Materials.

Objective

The main objective of the SMARTWASTE MSCA SE project is to form a world class international and inter-sectoral network of organizations, working on a joint research programme in the field of novel Sustainable Smart Textile Materials, by replacing conventional and high costs textile materials with sustainable, environmentally friendly, cheaper and novel materials such as cellulose fibres from tomato stems waste and creating nonwovens from unconventional poplar seed fibers. This can only be achieved by bringing together world-class experts in materials, polymers, environmentalists, chemists, software engineers, and designers with state-of-the-art innovations and processes in their respective fields of expertise. The participants will exchange skills and knowledge to create sustainable textile materials, strengthening collaborative research between different countries and sectors. SMARTWASTE will also refine and produce potential commercial market opportunities for non-academic participants in the project (WP7). Our goal is to train next generation of researchers and innovators in sustainable textiles through cross-sectoral and training modules. The staff members will develop new skills, be exposed to new research and innovation environments, international networks, new industrial processes and techniques whilst widening and enriching career development through cross-sectoral knowledge transfer and international mobility.

Coordinator

ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI
Net EU contribution
€ 322 000,00
Address
AYAZAGA KAMPUSU
34469 Maslak, Istanbul
Türkiye

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Region
İstanbul İstanbul İstanbul
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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