15 December 2024
NewTexEco is taking shape as research community
Since April 2024, NewTexEco’s Danielle Bruggeman is professor of Fashion and Sustainability by special appointment at the Faculty of Arts at Radboud University in Nijmegen. In this role, she developed and now teaches the course ‘Sustainability in the Fashion Industries’ at Radboud University. For this course, MA students are currently doing research for several NewTexEco partners. A fine […]
5 December 2024
NewTexEco Introduces a User-Friendly Wardrobe Study Tool
Understanding consumer behavior is key to creating a more sustainable fashion industry. Since Maldini’s groundbreaking wardrobe research (2019), studies have focused on how people buy, care for, and dispose of their clothing. These insights help inform textile manufacturers, brands, policy-makers, and consumers, providing estimates of their environmental impact in terms of water, energy, and carbon […]
4 December 2024
Measures for a future-proof textile sector
The Circular Textiles Policy Programme was published this week. Part of the National Circular Economy Programme (NPCE) in which textiles is one of the product groups for which intensive policies, concrete targets and a behavioural strategy have been drawn up. The ‘Policy Programme Circular Textiles 2025-2030’ is an important next step towards the goal: a […]
4 December 2024
New subsidy helps entrepreneurs reuse and repair
The Ministry of IenW announced last week that the ‘Circulair implementeren en opschalen‘ subsidy scheme will start in January 2025! This was partly achieved because of all the positive responses the ministry received during the consultation phase. RVO Netherlands will implement the subsidy scheme. More information on their website.
4 December 2024
3D NXT LEVEL 3.0 at AMFI: Driving Digital Fashion Innovation
On November 21-22, over 150 fashion professionals and students gathered at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) for the 3D NXT LEVEL 3.0 event. Co-organized by the International Apparel Federation (IAF) and sponsored by Alvanon and Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, the two-day conference spotlighted the latest developments in digital product creation (DPC) and the integration of 3D technology across the […]
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 […]
4 December 2024
Mini-symposium Prototyping Futures
A special symposium took place on Thursday 28 November, organised to mark the departure of Jeroen van den Eijnde as professor Tactical Design at ArtEZ . The event reflected on the impact and results of the professorship over the past eight years, providing inspiration for further developments within NewTexEco. In his introduction, Jeroen van den […]
17 October 2024
Funding opportunity creative companies – offered by ClickNL
As a partner of NewTexEco, we would like to draw your attention to the research subsidy that ClickNL offers in the Ontwerpkracht & Transities programme. The subsidy (max. 650,000 per project) is intended for a consortium of (at least 3) creative companies, organizations and knowledge institutions that conduct design research aimed at stimulating transition. The […]
30 September 2024
Clients sought for QUEST project
Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Design & Engineering, is looking for clients for an interdisciplinary project (QUEST) on the theme of ‘circular and industrial production’. Within Quest, third-year students Built Environment, Technical Business Administration, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering work for six months on real tasks for companies, together with research and education. […]
26 September 2024
NewTexEco presents plans at Circular Textile Days
What great conversations we had during Circular Textile Days! We presented our plans for the coming years, within the 7 themes our consortium has put forward. In the near future we will share more about the topics in our research agenda, including a timeline. We gathered feedback from designers and manufacturers during Circular Textile Days […]
2 September 2024
NewTexEco’s 3D knit summer school
The week of 8 July 2024 marked the first edition of NewTexEco’s 3D knit summer school. In the 3D knit robot lab at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 6 lecturers and researchers were taught 3D knitting techniques for one week. Led by Leslie Eisinger, who works in the Fashion Research & Technology Department, the principles of […]
10 July 2024
NewTexEco maps the Dutch ecosystem
In collaboration with Modint, we obtained a dataset of all Dutch companies in the textile sector registered with KvK (Chamber of Commerce, containing over 12,000), their age (year of registration), number of employees, office space (km2), and company websites. The HvA hired a research assistant to examine this dataset and obtain more details about the […]