Enhancing Danube Green Textile and Garment Production and Consumption

Project acronim: DRP0200404
Total budget: 1.790.300,00 EUR
Funding scheme: Interreg Programme Danube Region
Duration: 30 months (01.01.2024. - 30.06.2026.)
Project coordinator: Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency (SERDA)

Partners:

1. Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency (SERDA), Bosnia and Herzegovina
2. Municipality of Postojna, Slovenia
3. NATIVA, Institute for Sustainable Growth, Slovenia
4. EKOCHARITY, Slovakia
5. Eurotex, Bulgaria
6. Municipality of Majur, Croatia
7. Universtity of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology
8. University of Donja Gorica, Mone Negro
9. Zlatibor Regional Development Agency, Serbia
10. Bucharest Metroplitan Area Intercommunity Development Association, Rumunia
11. First Hungarian Responsible Innovation Association, Hungary

ASSOCIATED PARTNERS:

Ministry of Communal Economy, Infrastructure, Spatial Planning, Construction and Environmental Protection of Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ministry of Living Space, Slovakia
City of Trenčin, Slovakia
The Ministry of Environment, Water and Forsts, Romania

Leader at partner institution (TTF): Prof.dr.sc. Sandra Bischof

Collaborators at partner institution TTF: Prof.dr.sc.Tanja Pušić; izv.prof. dr.sc. Tihana Dekanić; doc. dr.sc. Zorana Kovačević, Agata Vinčić, Marijana Tkalec

ABSTRACT: Green-Tex project is aiming to strengthen transnational collaboration and innovation in the Danube area's sustainable textile sector and thus make value chain actors in partner regions more resilient and competitive in adjusting to global shifts from traditional to more regenerative circular economy based green textile practices. Green-Tex will create and test new solutions throughout the entire value chain (starting from fashion
design to production and usage as well as textile waste collection) and verify them in various contexts within the project territory. Digital solutions will be an integral part of the Green-Tex project, because all partner regions need an effective textile waste collection system with publicly available online map of collection points, supported by awareness raising campaigns. Green-Tex solutions will be incorporated into the "Green-Tex learning and innovation platform". The project is applying a multisectoral approach by integrating partners & stakeholders from the textile, waste collection and recycling, product design and other sectors. It is also integrating all actors within a quadruple innovation helix framework, relevant for the successful application of circularity in the textile sector.

Expected results:

Result 1: Organizations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cross-border cooperation activities. The partners will increase their capacities by applying the circular economy model in the textile sector with specific knowledge and capacity in the following fields:

(i) collection of textile waste in different environments (city, urban and suburban areas),
(ii) application of natural raw materials of autochthonous origin (hemp, wool) in innovative textile production,
(iii) sustainable design (design for recycling or reuse, zero-waste design).

Result 2: Solutions that have been adopted or improved from partner organizations.