On 6 December 2023, I contributed to the Final Event of the COSME-funded project S4Fashion, titled “Next4Fashion: Unlocking New Sustainable Pathways”.
S4Fashion consortium organised the gathering with the support of the other three EU COSME projects funded under the same call on circular fashion, namely: Circular Innobooster, Fashion for Change, and Small but Perfect. From 2021 to 2023, these initiatives have been driving sustainable practices in fashion, involving 25 European organisations coming from 15 member states and covering all European regions.
The conference had various panels hosted by David Lapof from Istituto Europeo di Design. I had the pleasure to be in the one titled “The entrepreneurial journey of a sustainable Fashion SME” with Stefanie Barz from Loop Look project and Ilaria Maria Sposito from Junkle project.
I talked about the latest steps of the evolution from Clotho to Circular Clotho, and how, thanks to the funding provided by S4Fashion, we could successfully test the closed-loop strategy of the EMF shielding textile I’m working on since 2020.
One of the cool highlights of the day was the positively heated debate focused on policies, to critically examine the challenges in the fashion industry and propose innovative, policy solutions regarding climate transition: Cecilia Nilsson-Bottka (European Commission, DG GROW Legal & Policy Officer), Lisa Lang (EIT Climate KIC, Director Policy & EU Affairs) and Leida Rijnhout (World Fair Trade Organization, Chief Executive) made it very clear that without social justice in the Global South there’s no real transition.
The event was hosted at MAD, a creative hub in Brussels helping organisations and professionals navigate sustainable business models in the early stages of their activity.
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