A free online tool for fashion professionals to measure, compare, and minimize the environmental and social impact of garments throughout the entire lifecycle, has been developed under the Horizon 2020 SCIRT project. The True Cost Calculator (TCC) helps fashion professionals to understand and reduce the environmental and social...
As part of the 2025 Joint Actions on Compliance of Products (JACOP) campaign, supported by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), market surveillance authorities conducted spot checks across 11 product categories, one of which focused on clothing products....
On 20 July 2026, the European Commission launched the Digital Product Passport (DPP) Registry, together with a dedicated testing environment. The launch represents an important milestone towards the practical implementation of Digital Product Passports for products placed on the European market....
From 15 to 17 September 2026, MEDinCHAMBERS will hold a Cross-border Bootcamp and Matchmaking Study Visits in Barcelona. The three-day programme will be conducted in English and will combine practical training, collaborative workshops, networking activities and study visits focused on the green transition of the...
A key output of the VERDEinMED project was the development of a series of seven handbooks intended for trainers and training programme developers working on the transition of the textile and clothing (T&C) sector towards circular economy models and ecosystems. Each handbook covers a different...
If the ecological transition of the textile sector were a puzzle, the citizen would be the final piece to complete the picture. With this awareness, the VERDEinMED project launched its Living Labs, an initiative that placed consumers at the center, transforming them from passive spectators...
