Open Call - Textirama

Textirama Foundation focuses on innovation, digital transition and value creation in the textile industry. Each year the Foundation launches an open call for ambitious, innovative projects and ideas that challenge the sector, stimulate the transformation and are in line with the vision of the Textirama Foundation.The finalists receive an award and financial support. Our goal consists of 3 main parts:

• creating new opportunities for innovation

• engaging young people with the textile industry

• strengthening the image of the sector

This initiative focuses on innovations which are applicable in the textile industry. We define innovation as a change that creates value. Such a change may involve several aspects. Eg.: innovations can be purely marketing-oriented but can also concern the digitization of the production process, logistics, or new, sustainable materials. In short, innovations can concern media, markets, products and processes (M2P2) . There are 2 categories:

• Take-off projects: proposals that already have a concrete elaboration, for example a prototype or a proof of concept

• Projects that still are in the concept idea phase

The next deadline is Octobre 30th 2020

The submission of proposals is permanently open, but the first deadline is October 30th. Projects submitted after the cut-off date are automatically carried forward to the next year. The awarding ceremony will be held in February 2021.