On March 5, in the framework of the conference “Strategies of circularity in textiles”, organized by the Waste Agency of Catalonia, we presented our good practices of circular economy in the textile sector. Our Project Manager, Núria Campmany, disseminated the results...
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2020
New accounts in Telegram and Flickr
Feb 28, 2020
AEI Tèxtils has opened new accounts in Telegram (https://textils.cat/telegram) and Flikr (https://textils.cat/flickr). The cluster has also accounts in Linkedin (https://textils.cat/linkedin) and Twitter (https://textils.cat/twitter).
AEI Tèxtils participated in a roundtable to discuss the upcoming European policies towards circular economy and sustainability in the textile sector
Feb 28, 2020
AEI Tèxtils participated in the roundtable Greening the Textile sector organized by FleishmanHillard on February 25th in Brussels. The lunch roundtable “Greening the textile sector: challenges in a circular economy” had featured speakers from the European Commission,...
The European Commission visits the LIFE-FLAREX project in Terrassa
Feb 25, 2020
On February 24th, the European Commission visited the LIFE-FLAREX project during its last monitoring visit along with the IDOM-NEEMO monitoring team. AEI Tèxtils, as project coordinator, welcomed Mr. Manuel Montero, project adviser at EASME – the Executive Agency for...
CLAMTEX, new project towards cluster management excellence
Feb 20, 2020
AEI Tèxtils participated at the kick off meeting to present the new European Cluster Strategic Partnerships for Excellence. The meeting took place on February 18th in Brussels and it was organized by the DG Growth from the European Commission and the Executive Agency...
CONTEXT network met in Ljubljana
Feb 13, 2020
CONTEXT, the international network of experts in advanced textile materials, led by AEI Tèxtils, gathered more than 60 experts from 33 countries in Ljubljana on January 29th and 30th to participate at the annual Management Committee meeting and the third working...
We presented our initiatives for sustainability and circular economy during the launch of “Recircula Challenge 2020”
Feb 11, 2020
AEI Tèxtils participated in the presentation of the “Recircula Challenge 2020” contest organized by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) on February 10th 2020. The Recircula Challenge 2020 is a creative and innovation driven contest with teams of students to...
We signed a partnership agreement with TEX4IM
Feb 5, 2020
AEI Tèxtils has joined the Partnership Agreement of TEX4IM, the partnership for smart specialization strategy investment in Europe. The aim of this PA is to ensure the sustainability of the TEX4IM partnership in the long term. This agreement will facilitate the...
TEXSTRA arrives at its end
Feb 4, 2020
The last meeting of TEXSTRA– Textile Strategy for Innovative Higher Education project was held on 21st and 22nd January, in Guimaraes (Portugal). It was organized by University of Minho. The project, in which AEI Tèxtils is a partner, aims to contribute on the...
New video to promote sustainability in the textile sector
Jan 27, 2020
In order to continue the promotion of sustainability, AEI Tèxtils and the LIFE–FLAREX project have just released an animation video summarizing the needs for the project and describing its activities in layman’s terms. The project video aims to raise awareness and...