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Textiles of the Future

In 2025, the European Commission launched a new European co-funded and co-programmed partnership “Textiles of the Future”. The collaborative projects funded through these calls will involve industry players, with a focus on SMEs, alongside research and technology organisations, universities, and other stakeholders. The aim is to focus on higher Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) to ensure the rapid deployment of developed solutions at an industrial scale within the European textile sector.

The first funding opportunities under this initiative were integrated in the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025. The Textile Partnership calls in 2025, 2026 and 2027 will reflect the priorities set out in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) published by Textile ETP in July 2024.

Priority areas

In a collaborative effort involving hundreds of experts from across the European textile ecosystem, the SRIA identifies 3 main priority areas:

Sustainable Materials & Clean Processes
Digital Supply Chains & New Business Models
Advanced Manufacturing & High-performance Textiles

Key documents

- Commission Press release of the launch of the Partnership

- Textile ETP news item on the launch of the Partnership

- In July 2024, Textile ETP published the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for the Partnership. Developed by Textile ETP with input from its members, the SRIA addresses the major challenges of the ongoing green and digital transition in the textile sector.

Contact

info@textile-platform.eu

What are partnerships?

Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.

How to use partnerships?

orientation
Partnerships publish strategic documents, e.g. outlining the main research and innovation challenges or key focus points.

networking
Partnerships often organise events, such as info days, brokerage events, etc. Meet potential partners and learn about the nuances that are not visible in the official documents.

ecosystem analysis
Partnerships typically have an advisory board, and publish impact studies of previous actions. These are good sources of information to uncover the main R&D&I players in the domain.

steering the agenda
Partnerships collaborate with the EC on outlining the strategy and the future funding opportunities in their domain, based on input from industry, academia, and other stakeholders.

ERC grants for UGent professor Lieven Eeckhout

Professor Lieven Eeckhout’s main research interests include computer architecture and the hardware/software interface with a specific emphasis on performance evaluation and modeling, and dynamic resource management.

Professor Eeckhout is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant, Advanced grant and three Proof of Concept grants. Two of his former PhD students founded in 2013 CoScale, a spin-off in data center monitoring, which was acquired by New Relic.

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