AIM
CLEANTEX aims to promote the uptake of circular economy and eco-design concepts to improve the skills of students in textile engineering and workers in the sector through cross-sectoral cooperation in HEIs in order to tackle the main pollution problem in textile industry and reach a more sustainable sector.
CLEANTEX is aligned with the renewed Circular Economy Action Plan and the new Industrial Policy released on March 2020. In addition, CLEANTEX will also leverage the new European Commission textile policy by 2021.
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the CLEANTEX project include the development of three intellectual outcomes (IO) and the organization of an intensive summer school:
- IO1: Development of a MOOC virtual training programme on circular economy and eco-design in the textile industry.
- IO2: Development of an industrial clean textile BOOTCAMP with innovative practical materials and metrologies in the textile industry for students who will attend an intensive summer school.
- IO3: Development of an e-book with practical examples on the application of life-cycle assessment (LCA) and eco-design in the modern textile industry.
Summer school: Organization of an intensive summer school in Ljubljana in 2022, where students from the three partner universities of the project will be trained using the MOOC, the methodology of the BOOTCAMP and the practical examples presented in the e-book.
CONSORTIUM
The consortium of the project consists of Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, as project coordinator; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; AEI Tèxtils and LEITAT, Spain; CRE.THI.DEV, Greece; CIAPE and Environment Park, Italy; and Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts Industries Textiles, France.
CO-FINANCING
CLEANTEX is co-financed by the ERASMUS+ program of the European Commission under the call for Strategic Partnerships for higher education, with the Grant Agreement number 2020-1-LT01-A203 -077874. Project duration: 1. 11. 2020 – 31. 1. 2023.
LINK TO THE PROJECT WEBSITE.
