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tExtended to host workshop at 3rd Ecosystex Conference In Gothenburg, Sweden

In order to demonstrate and validate the steps taken so far to develop a blueprint for the optimized cycling of discarded textiles, the EU-funded project tExtended will be present at the next ECOSYSTEX conference, which will take place on September 29 – October 1 at the Jacy’z Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden.

tExtended will present “Building a collaborative circular textile system”, an interactive workshop where the external participants will be asked to engage with the project’s preliminary results about system dynamics modelling, barriers to circular transition, and value chain development from a logistics perspective. The feedback gained through the workshop will allow tExtended to validate the assumptions so far obtained and expand the project insights into circularity scenarios, policy trade-offs, and key challenges in building a sustainable and circular textile system. The workshop will be presented by representatives from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and Tekologistik.

“Over the past two years and a half of work, tExtended has advanced the development of digital and technological solutions for textile waste management and circularity, and we will continue developing innovations in the next months. However, validating the results obtained so far requires collaboration and cooperation also outside of tExtended, which is why the workshop at the ECOSYSTEX conference is so important and will help us ensuring we are going in the right direction,” says tExtended Project Coordinator, Dr. Pirjo Heikkilä from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

In addition, tExtended will be present at the conference with an exhibition of textile samples produced within the project activities that will showcase the achievements reached by the partners. The types of samples space from demonstration of results of innovative recycling processes to finished clothes ready for the market, all highlighting the continuous cooperation among the project partners needed to reach such results.

This will be the 3rd conference organized by ECOSYSTEX, the European Community of Practice for a Sustainable Textile Ecosystem, formally launched in 2023 with the goal of accelerating collaboration in the textile sustainability and circularity field. Please find more information about ECOSYSTEX on their website: https://www.ecosystex.eu/

This year’s conference is focused on new technologies and business models for textile circularity; please find more information about the 3rd ECOSYSTEX conference and how to register here: https://ecosystex-conference-2025.b2match.io/



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