EUROPEAN PRECEDENTS
See how culture, craft and cloth become consortium work.
Independent field notes on publicly funded projects reveal the partner mixes, technical systems and roles Australian organisations can translate into new collaborations.
PROJECT LIBRARY
Culture to cloth.
The full system.
Together these precedents connect cultural knowledge, creative practice, fibre and textile production, circular value chains, provenance and interoperable product data.
HORIZON EUROPE · CLUSTER 2CRAFT‑IT4SD
Craft, fashion and creative-sector ecosystems advancing green transition through technology, data and four regional pilots.
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CRAFT‑IT4SD
- Grant
- 101132596
- Dates
- Jan 2024–Dec 2026
- Focus
- CCIs, fashion, textiles, craft and climate transition
- Coordinator
- Aarhus University, Denmark
Consortium lesson
CRAFT‑IT4SD combines research, fashion and textile organisations, technology and creative-business networks. Four pilots connect traditional knowledge with digital tools, data-led business models and climate-impact information.
Australian route: craft organisations, textile and fashion SMEs, designers, regional ecosystems and research partners can contribute as testbeds, end users, sector translators and impact partners.
Official CORDIS record ↗ Project website ↗HORIZON EUROPE · CLUSTER 2HEPHAESTUS
Traditional craft sectors strengthened through technology, sustainable business models and connected craft ecosystems.
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HEPHAESTUS
- Grant
- 101095123
- Dates
- Apr 2023–Mar 2027
- Consortium
- 9 partners + 4 associated partners
- Countries
- Denmark, Italy, Latvia and Sweden
Consortium lesson
The project connects universities, municipalities, fab labs, maker organisations and business associations across four craft ecosystems. Craft operates simultaneously as heritage, technical knowledge, entrepreneurship and sustainable innovation.
Australian route: combine knowledge holders, research, regional authorities, training, fabrication capability and sector networks.
Official CORDIS record ↗ Project website ↗HORIZON EUROPE · CLUSTER 2Tracks4Crafts
New pathways for transmitting, valuing and sustaining traditional craft knowledge as intangible cultural heritage.
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Tracks4Crafts
- Grant
- 101094507
- Dates
- Mar 2023–Feb 2027
- Focus
- Traditional craft knowledge and transmission
- Coordinator
- Belgium
Consortium lesson
Knowledge transmission becomes a research system: who holds knowledge, how it is embodied and documented, and how future practitioners acquire it.
Australian route: universities, training organisations, guilds, museums and maker networks can contribute research sites, methods and culturally governed knowledge partnerships.
Official CORDIS record ↗HORIZON EUROPE · CLUSTER 2CRAEFT
Skilled making researched and transmitted through anthropology, cognition, education and immersive technology.
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CRAEFT
- Grant
- 101094349
- Dates
- Mar 2023–Feb 2026
- Focus
- Craft knowledge, digitisation and education
- Coordinator
- Greece
Consortium lesson
Craft research brings ethnography, knowledge representation, digitisation, immersive media and education to the same table. Technology serves the knowledge and transmission challenge.
Official CORDIS record ↗HORIZON EUROPE · CLUSTER 4tExtended
Textile recovery, waste valorisation and recycling combined with sensing, digital tools and a real-scale demonstrator.
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tExtended
- Grant
- 101091575
- Dates
- Dec 2022–Nov 2026
- Programme
- Digital, Industry and Space
- Coordinator
- VTT, Finland
Consortium lesson
tExtended links research organisations, waste management, recyclers, textile-material producers and product manufacturers around an industrial-urban textile system and a full-scale demonstration.
Australian route: connect fibre and textile research to industrial conversion, waste streams, sensing, data and an end-to-end demonstrator with measurable scale potential.
Official CORDIS record ↗HORIZON EUROPE · CLUSTER 6CISUTAC
Large-scale circular textile value chains for repair, disassembly, sorting, reuse, recycling and circular garments.
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CISUTAC
- Grant
- 101060375
- Dates
- Sep 2022–Sep 2026
- Pilots
- Repair; sorting; fibre-to-fibre garments
- Coordinator
- Centexbel, Belgium
Consortium lesson
CISUTAC integrates technical, sectoral and socio-economic work across garments, active goods and workwear. Its pilots connect equipment, material flows, digitally enhanced sorting and consumer participation.
Australian route: pair textile R&D with sorting and repair infrastructure, brands, social enterprise, consumer research and product-data capability.
Official CORDIS record ↗HORIZON EUROPE · CLUSTER 6T‑REX
A whole-value-chain system turning post-consumer household textiles into verified feedstock and new garments.
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T‑REX
- Grant
- 101060343
- Dates
- Jun 2022–May 2025
- Status
- Completed
- Coordinator
- adidas, Germany
Consortium lesson
T‑REX brought major actors across collection, sorting, recycling, fibre and fashion together to establish harmonised methods, quality criteria and closed-loop market models.
Australian route: frame textile waste as a qualified production input and organise the consortium around the interfaces between each stage.
Official CORDIS record ↗DIGITAL EUROPECIRPASS + CIRPASS‑2
Digital Product Passport concepts, data models and real-world pilots across textiles and other value chains.
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CIRPASS + CIRPASS‑2
- Programme
- Digital Europe
- CIRPASS
- 31 partners; completed Mar 2024
- CIRPASS‑2
- May 2024–Apr 2027
- Focus
- Textiles, electronics, batteries and further product groups
Consortium lesson
CIRPASS established cross-sector DPP foundations; CIRPASS‑2 advances them through lighthouse pilots. Together they provide product-data infrastructure for textile traceability, circularity and market readiness.
Australian route: align identifiers, chain-of-custody evidence and verified claims with emerging interoperable DPP practice.
CIRPASS website ↗ CIRPASS‑2 website ↗HORIZON EUROPE · CLUSTER 6GI SMART
Research methods for producer governance, sustainability and territorial development through geographical indications.
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GI SMART
- Grant
- 101136364
- Dates
- Jun 2024–May 2028
- Programme
- Horizon Europe · Cluster 6
- Funded scope
- Agri-food geographical indications
Consortium lesson
GI SMART provides a strong research architecture for producer groups, consumers, policy design, sustainability and territorial resilience.
Australian route: adapt these methods into a distinct research proposition for craft and industrial geographical indications, regional producer systems and place-linked value.
Official CORDIS record ↗Source basis: Programme, grant, date and coordinator details come from official European Commission and project records. The linked live records provide the controlling project information.
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