Textile circularity through advanced processing and manufacturing technologies and system approaches (IA) (Textiles for the Future partnership)
INDUSTRY · HORIZON-IA · TRL 5–7 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds innovation projects that make it cheaper and easier for the textile industry to use recycled, bio-based, and renewable fibres and sustainable chemicals instead of virgin fossil-based materials. It supports new processing technologies for spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing, plus tools, training and business models to help the whole value chain share risk and scale up these alternatives. The goal is to make sustainable textiles commercially competitive by 2035 while reducing environmental harm.
circular economy · sustainable materials · bioeconomy · advanced manufacturing · waste recycling
Who wins this
A consortium spanning the textile value chain (material/chemical suppliers, manufacturers, brands, end-of-life managers) with industrial partners able to commercially scale new sustainable processing technologies, including SMEs and start-ups.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €4M–€6M
- Funding model
- Lump sum — paid per completed work package, no financial reporting of actual costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- SME, large enterprise, start-up
- Support to third parties
- Proposals must allocate 10%-25% of the EU contribution to financial support to third parties (FSTP), open only to SME participants, with a maximum of EUR 150,000 per third party.
- Also required
- Proposals must actively involve suppliers, brands, end users, processing technology developers and industrial partners capable of commercial scale-up; mere integration of existing technologies is out of scope; a business case and exploitation strategy must be included.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Deep Tech · Manufacturing · Aerospace
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout In order to include a business case and exploitation strategy, as outlined in the introduction to this Destination, the page limit in part B of the General Annexes is exceptionally extended by 3 pages. Admissibility conditions are described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants The granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5. Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 150 000. This derogation is justified by the fact that the actions to be carried out by third parties (SMEs) towards the expected outcome of the uptake of business models and system approaches, will be incorporating cost-intensive technologies to process textile-to-textile recycled materials. Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf ]]. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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