Project information
PROJECT TITLE: ‘’Textile and Clothing Business Labs’’
Project duration: 48 months (July 1st 2015 - June 30th 2019)
TCBL is a research& development project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme that aims to transform the Textile & Clothing (T&C) industry, bringing 5% of production capacity back to Europe by applying new sustainable business approaches that support local design and production, reducing the T&C sector’s impact on the environment.
The demand for ethical and environmentally friendly clothes is a worldly growing trend. In order to meet those customers’ needs in a fast-growing, competitive market, TCBL introduces and supports new approaches to product design, production and sales, creating ‘laboratories’ for design and manufacturing in order to create new business model opportunities to local companies that otherwise would not have the resources to experiment new methodologies.
TCBL introduces 3 types of open innovation Business Labs, each focused on specific areas of the value chain:
- Design Labs (creating emotionally-oriented immaterial value)
- Making Labs (converting skilled labour into material value)
- Place Labs (generating spatial community and socially-oriented value).
PROJECT PARTNERS:
- City of Prato (Lead Partner)
- German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research (DITF)
- Instituto Superiore Mario Boella
- Skillaware
- The Open University
- iMinds
- Tavistock Institute
- Materials Industrial Research and Technology Center S.A.
- Waag Society
- Huddersfield & District Textile Training Company LTD
- Ezavod
- Consorzio ARCA
- UnionCamere del Veneto
- Hellenic Clothing Industry Association
- Sanjotec – Centro Empresarial e Tecnologico
- Clear Communication Associates LTD
Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
