Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production (Textiles for the Future Partnership) (IA)
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-31
Amount not specified
23/09/2025
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
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What is the Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production (Textiles for the Future Partnership) (IA) Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Accelerate adoption of advanced digital product creation and manufacturing technologies by European textile and fashion SMEs
• Increase the share of re- or near-shored production of time-critical textile products produced in socially and environmentally responsible ways, utilising recycled materials where possible
• Contribute to mitigation of GHG emissions by reducing long-lead-time supply chains, overproduction and pre-consumer waste through digitisation and localised on-demand manufacture
Scope Requirements
• Align with upcoming Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation priorities for textiles (durability, recyclability, repairability, recycled content)
• Demonstrate integration of advanced digital product creation and manufacturing technologies by European textile and fashion SMEs
• Include a credible business case and initial exploitation strategy as per Destination requirements
• Involve at least one advanced technology provider, one manufacturing SME, and one end-market facing company (e.g. retailer or service provider)
• Consortium partners must come from at least two different countries
• Financial support to third parties (FSTP) only to SME participants; larger companies and start-ups are encouraged as active partners
• Indicative project duration: 18 months; each third-party beneficiary funding capped at EUR 60 000
Special Conditions
• Financial support to third parties must be provided as grants only, in lump sums, max EUR 60 000 per third-party SME
• Eligible participants and conditions follow Horizon Europe General Annexes (Annex B for countries, Annex C for capacity, Annex G for lump sums)
• Legal entities established in China are not eligible for Innovation Actions
• Projects should seek synergies with existing European, national or regional initiatives, and may include international cooperation with advanced countries in the field
• Must implement the co-programmed European Partnership “Textiles for the Future”
• Proposals to use specified application forms and comply with admissibility, evaluation, and grant agreement rules in Horizon Europe Work Programme
Open from: 22/05/2025
Deadline:23/09/2025
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