SSbD bio-based solutions to replace hazardous conventional chemicals for textiles production
Horizon Europe – Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking Annual Work Programme 2025 – Innovation Actions
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18/09/2025
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
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What is the SSbD bio-based solutions to replace hazardous conventional chemicals for textiles production Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Address the EU Bioeconomy Strategy, the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles.
• Contribute indirectly to the Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”, Objective 2: prevent and eliminate pollution of oceans, seas and waters.
• Deliver availability of SSbD bio-based solutions for the textile industry that meet technical and market performance requirements.
• Enhance sustainability, circularity and safety in the textiles sector.
• Reduce pollution (including micropollutants and emerging contaminants) across production, use and end-of-life phases of textile value chains, with positive downstream effects.
• Generate improved social impacts along the textile value chain and broad socio-economic benefits.
Scope Requirements
• Demonstrate SSbD bio-based alternatives to both production-process and end-product hazardous chemicals, applicable to bio-based and fossil-based textile value chains.
• Ensure full compatibility of novel chemicals and/or processes with existing textile manufacturing technologies and practices.
• Rigorously test and benchmark end-product performance (technical, human health safety, environmental) against relevant standards over the full life cycle, specifying all considered end-of-life scenarios (e.g. recycling, remanufacturing).
• Employ the Multi-Actor Approach (MAA) with active involvement of all key actors: textile manufacturers (especially SMEs and brand owners), raw material suppliers, process industries, regional/local officials and workers’ HS&E representatives.
• Incorporate and advance the EU SSbD framework by providing thresholds to support criteria definition, identifying data gaps (safety, environmental, socio-economic) and prioritizing data collection.
• Demonstrate complementarity with existing and past R&I projects addressing similar challenges (Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe Clusters, Textiles for the Future partnership, BBI JU/CBE JU projects).
Special Conditions
• Submission model: single-stage; opening 03 April 2025; deadline 18 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time.
• Mandatory use of the updated Application Form (Part B) template as of 04/04/2025.
• Page limits and layout per Annex A & E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes and Part B instructions.
• Eligibility: entities from countries listed in Annex B; non-EU/non-Associated participants subject to specific national provisions in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
• Financial and operational capacity, exclusion criteria: per Annex C; evaluation and award (criteria, scoring, thresholds): per Annex D; submission/evaluation processes and timeline: per Annex F and Online Manual; legal and financial grant setup: per Annex G.
• Adherence to specific call conditions in section 2.2.3.1 of the CBE JU Annual Work Programme 2025, including MAA requirements, SSbD framework tasks and complementarity obligations.
• Compliance with Horizon Europe Model Grant Agreement (MGA) HORIZON-AG and associated guidance documents.
Open from: 03/04/2025
Deadline:18/09/2025
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