Joint European Initiative in Textile Industry for Europe’s recovery boosting digital and green transition

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EuroBoosTex, has the potential to accelerate green and digital transition, build resilience, boost recovery within their network, and potentially replicate it in other textile clusters or sectors. The project aims to drive change and make European textile value chains more resilient after pandemic providing SMEs a set of tools to improve their innovation potential, technological uptake, skills, and internationalization. Overcoming the hurdles brought by the pandemic and recovering quickly will need new collaborations and new approaches to develop textile products and services that add value to economies. EuroBoosTex will develop with other stakeholder the training needs for the textile industry of the future and a portfolio of services to attract talent to textile industry. Innovate for strategic autonomy. EuroBoosTex enhance SMEs to develop new products or processes with financial support though innovate vouchers to promote cohesion and strengthen the EU’s resilience and recovery. EuroBoosTex will fund 10 individual SMEs with lump-sums of 15k€ (150k€ in total) to launch new products of services to market. Adopt processes and technologies. EuroBoosTex enables the adoption of processes and technologies through strategic collaborations to access state-of-the-art digital technologies applied in the textile industry. EuroBoosTex will fund 12 SMEs consortia with lump-sums of 60k€ (720k€ in total) to run the pilots and adopt digital and green technologies. Training activities. One of the key challenges of the project is to boost employment and employability and overcome gaps, shortages and mismatches between skills. Go international. EuroBoosTex will facilitate the exploration phase of new market opportunities for SMEs. With International Boost voucher. EuroBoosTex will fund 15 individual SMEs with lump-sums of 12k€ (180k€ in total) to facilitate market access, local contacts and travel support.