The European textile and fashion sector is entering one of its most significant transformation periods in decades. Policy pressure, resource constraints, labour shortages and rising environmental expectations are converging to challenge long-standing business models, yet responses across the sector remain largely fragmented.
This report synthesises collective intelligence from the Future-Ready Textiles workshop series led by Climate-KIC in 2025, bringing together manufacturers, brands, researchers, NGOs and policymakers across Europe and beyond.
Three headline insights emerge: the challenges are systemic, not only technical; signals of change are accelerating; and transition-ready capabilities are the missing link.
This webinar will explore how verified product data is shaping design decisions, market access and product selection in a more regulated and increasingly digital economy.
This year’s CGR introduces a new tool: the Value Gap.
This represents the total avoidable value lost through inefficient material use (including energy and food), premature obsolescence and asset deterioration, and partially unpriced externalities. It is an absolute figure that can also be expressed relative to GDP (that is, as euros of avoidable value lost for every euro of value created), indicating how much value is lost for each unit of economic output generated.
Accounting for the Value Gap alongside GDP would provide a more realistic measure of net value creation by revealing how much economic value is structurally lost to linearity and highlighting the scale of opportunity for circular strategies to retain and recover that value.
This year’s Circularity Gap Report introduces a new tool: the Value Gap, highlighting the economic impacts associated with linear practices, such as avoidable waste and inefficient material use, and revealing a strategic opportunity to build resilience and create value.
The summit will bring together international leaders, researchers, policymakers, industry innovators and civil society to explore how the bioeconomy can drive socio-economic transformation and climate action.
They're calling for proposals for workshops and satellite activities/site visits!
Signify Circle makes lighting products which are resource‑efficient and circular. It factors ecodesign, product-as-a-service, remanufacturing and repair into its business model.
DPPSkop is a comprehensive B2B SaaS platform developed to meet the Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirements mandated under the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.
The platform enables manufacturers, particularly in high-impact sectors such as textiles, batteries and electronics, to digitise, manage and share the lifecycle data of their products.
i-Foria Italia has validated a technology for recycling nappies, incontinence aids and sanitary pads - products which have always been considered unrecyclable owing to the wide mix of materials in them. i-Foria's technology separates the components and returns them to the production loop.
Green Pulse is a European service provider enabling the structured resale and reuse of decommissioned medical equipment from hospitals.
Through a transparent digital sales infrastructure and verified global buyer network, they ensure that equipment remains safely in clinical use worldwide.
This event will bring together circular economy leaders, pioneers, practitioners, explorers and researchers across industries and supply chains to celebrate circularity.
Participants will share opportunities, good practices, real-life cases and lessons learned from implementing the circular economy.
