CRAFT-IT4SD CRAFT-IT4SD (Craft Revitalization Action for Future-proofing the Transition to Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Development) aims to activate the CCSI towards the green transition by building on the rich cultural heritage and strong creative traditions which underpin the European CCSI. It is the ambition of CRAFT-IT4SD to revitalize knowledge, practices and traditional techniques as shared cultural resources for sustainability as well as spillovers into a new, customer driven and sustainable creative economy, allowing for born-sustainable small and micro-sized enterprises to share climate impact data and flourish via an open source and open data platform. CRAFT-IT4SD explores cross-sectoral CCSI innovation through a new ecosystem approach and with four pilot clusters (DK, ES, FI, RO), where regional governance, public private partnerships, entrepreneurial living labs, learning communities, and consumer-engagement approaches support shared experimentation towards the green transition. CRAFT-IT4SD goes beyond the state of art by merging otherwise often siloed CCI sectors, to further articulate a holistic approach, bridging past, present and future design and production opportunities, in the sense that CRAFT-IT4SD - combines techniques, skills and materials associated with traditional crafts with emerging possibilities for integration with new digital technologies and data analytics processes and services; and - adopts a new ecosystem approach to facilitate co-creation between traditional craft stakeholders, the fashion industry, SMEs by designers, artisans, artists through immersive media technologies. CRAFT-IT4SD holds the ambition to replicate insights, learnings and tangible results leading to a CCSI driven green transition – informed by the EIT CLIMATE KIC and inspired by the New European Bauhaus – in other CCSI ecosystems and thus to contribute to the EIT Culture and Creativity KIC, across its Co-location Centers.

“Just Fashion”, is set to develop a portfolio of approaches to support and accelerate climate transition in the fashion industry, by providing businesses in the partner countries with a reference framework and tools to shift their production methods, internal procedures and final products towards more sustainable models that are lower carbon, circular and socially inclusive. Just Fashion aims to address this problem by (1) mapping the current state of fashion and sustainability in Europe, (2) mapping and evaluating tools and on circular business models (3) create a process of interventions to support these tools and support existing networks in preparing MSMEs and SMEs for the new legislation on the European Green deal. 4 central elements of the projects: 1) Development of a new sustainability index as well as testing and refining several circular business model tools that are already in use in different areas and are already being tested in these countries. 2) Run 6 pilot cases from different regions focussing on different aspects of circularity (end of life, materials, zero waste prototyping, circular business models, recycling techniques, transparency/traceability, ...). 3) Update current instruments and tools in transformation & mitigation 4) Develop the necessary instruments to better prepare (M)SME's for European Green deals in terms of policy regulations (through buidling an AI support tool).

TRANSITIONS is a strategic alliance for innovation formed by research and technological centres, VET, HE institutions, public policy actors, SMEs and other sectoral organizations from Spain, Italy, Netherland and Sweden to nurture the textile and fashion transition to a 4.0 system and a circular economy by developing new learning methods, tools and practices to help students, young designers and professionals, to face real challenges. Fashion and textiles (F&T) are the second most polluting industry in the world. The F&T sectors face structural and systemic challenges that require a profound model change. The project addresses the core of the value chain and the future of the new fashion system change. Stakeholders will work together to design and develop new training methods to face the digital and green transformation. The objective is to create a collaborative and real work-based training where the different actors in the value chain work on how to take advantage of technology to generate new value proposals and new business models within a circular economy.TRANSITIONS will:- Create a modular training programme based on Industry 4.0 for a T&F new circular system. - Set up innovation-focused training modules based on real practice and challenges (Transition Labs) to skill, reskill and upskill students and professionals - Developing new ways to generate innovation in textile and design processes, production and commercialization. Our target audience are Product, F&T design students, young designers; fashion startups; SMEs professionals from design and management of creative industries; teachers and researchers in F&T design. All the specialists in design and development training of the SMEs F&T sectors. Makers and territorial agents of change.Methodology: TRANSITION proposes a multidisciplinary pedagogical approach based on Transition design theories and emerging disciplines and practices at the intersection of textile, biology, digital fabrication.