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Strategies for Removing Chemical Finishes from Post-Consumer Outdoor Fabrics

CITE aims to create a new dynamic and agile eco-
system in and between higher education institutions
that will boost textile circularity and circular econ-
omy in innovation and entrepreneurial courses.
The outcomes of CITE will be scaled up to other
HEIs and regions (ideas, pilots, demos, initiatives
and networks), and aim to impact the world of cir-
cular economy on a European level.

CITE is a project financed by EIT Manufacturing
(which is co-funded by the European Union), and
coordinated by a Europe-wide consortium of 6 part-
ners with industrial, entrepreneurial and innovative
expertise.
novative Initiative for an Entrepreneurial Europe (CITE) aims
to create a new dynamic and agile ecosystem in and be-
tween higher education institutions that will boost textile
circularity and circular economy in innovation and entre-
preneurial courses.
Today, no more than 40% of produced textiles are recy-
cled, with only 1% in certain areas. By 2025, EU member
states are obliged to implement a system to collect and
separate post-consumer textiles (according to the new
European Waste Framework Directive). This represents is
a huge entrepreneurial potential to increase the reuse rates
and recycling into higher value materials.
Perfluorocarbon extraction (UNI CEN/TS 15968:2010)
Financed by EIT Manufacturing (which is co-funded by the
European Union), CITE will exploit existing regional and
international structures, programmes, and initiatives (i.e.
European Green Deal, Circular Regions, New European
Bauhaus) in order to teach circularity to entrepreneurs-to-
be, with the ultimate goal of bringing key sustainable im-
provements into the entrepreneurial system.
The outcomes of CITE will be scaled up to other Higher
Education Institutions and regions (ideas, pilots, demos,
initiatives and networks), and aims to impact the world of
circular economy on a European level.
As part of the CITE consortium, led by RWTH Aachen
University and composed of 5 other partners with industri-
- Promotion of the Technology transfer to other sectors;
al, entrepreneurial and innovative expertise, Textile ETP
- New market opportunities; leads the dissemination activities of the project, ensuring
high-impact digital communications that reach students,
- Social impact (growing sustainability awareness).
teachers and trainers in national, regional and local set-
Textile ETP and partners launch new project to boost tings.
textile circularity in entrepreneurial courses
More information on the CITE project on its webpage:
Launched recently, the new project Circular Economy In- www.textile-platform.eu/cite

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