28 March 2025

Kick-off project Designing Ecosystems for Care & Repair

Tuesday 27 March saw the official kick-off of Designing Ecosystems for Care & Repair (hereafter Care & Repair). This programme, stemming from our research community NewTexEco, was recently selected from 51 submissions by CLICKNL. As many as 25 companies and institutions have shown interest in Care & Repair. The project investigates what systemic solutions are […]

4 December 2024

Hackathon: Paving the Way for Circular Textiles

The ReThink Textile Hackathon (november 2024) challenged students to create innovative business models for producing sustainable, biobased textiles in the Netherlands. With the textile industry among the largest polluters globally, the focus was on replacing plastic fibers with renewable materials like flax, hemp, and wool, while localizing the value chain. Over two weeks, interdisciplinary teams of students, guided […]

23 September 2023

NewTexEco officially launched

Thursday 21 September 2023 saw the official kick-off of this fantastic collective at ArtEZ in Arnhem. This was grandly celebrated by the programme team, the consortium partners, the Executive Boards of the three Universities of Applies Sciences and other interested parties from the network. The cooperation was validated by the Chairs of the three UAS’s […]