Circular City Centre - C3offers EU cities and regions a practical opportunity to turn circular economy ambition into real strategies, impactful projects and quicker pathways to financing and implementation.
They are organising a webinar on how cities can play a key role in implementing circular economy solutions in the management of textiles.
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.
Digital Product Passports are designed to provide reliable product data supporting sustainability, circularity, value retention for re-use, remanufacturing and recycling.
This company is developing a software-as-a-service solution for EU SMEs, enabling them to produce DPPs quickly and easily.
Europe generates considerable post-consumer textile waste (around 25kg per person in 2025), but the system captures and qualifies only a fraction for recycling.
This report, prepared by the Boston Consulting Group, finds that:
A viable European textile-to-textile system requires major investment but is not deemed to be profitable.
Enabling mechanisms coordinating the chain and sharing risk are needed to bridge the economics gap.
Textile-to-textile recycled fibres are a new product category answering a planetary need for circularity, but with structurally higher prcessing costs. Under current conditions, they will not be cost-competitive with existing recycled routes.
The Rethinking Materials Summit will bring together brands, innovators, investors and policymakers to explore the next frontier of materials innovation.
It is an opportunity for targeted networking, curated deal flow, live pitches and fresh tech discovery across the value chain.
The European Investment Bank and the European Commission's Directorate-General for the Environment are organising an event to mark the launch of their joint report on Transitioning to a circular economy: Closing the investment gap in Europe.
This webinar will explore the latest developments in the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and what it means for the fashion, clothing and textile industry, especially SMEs.
The Go Circular Summit brings together stakeholders from across the plastics value chain to review regulatory developments, exchange information on current practices and innovations, and discuss approaches to advancing circularity in Europe.
There will also be a preconference day focusing on textiles recycling!
