This report represents the final version of the Report on benchmarking and technology watch. It describes W2BC strategic benchmark and technology watch. Benchmarking strategic tool assists in the achievement of excellence, enabling improvement by borrowing and adapting the successful ideas and practices of organizations while avoiding unproven or problematic strategies.

When speaking of sustainable textile, hemp may be the fibre of the future. Diving into its potential, the Hemp4Circularity NWE Interreg project is conducting promising hemp cultivation and processing trials. The first results highlight the challenges and opportunities of this innovative fibre for the industrial textile value chain within the NWE region.

This policy brief discusses which barriers exist that need to be addressed through new policies and policy improvements to support the transitioning to a Circular Biobased Economy (CBBE). It summarises what the limitations are of the linear fossil-based economy, it then discusses how it has become embedded in the EU policy.

This report focuses on the development of new indicators applicable for monitoring and evaluating the transition to circular bio-based systems

This report aims to prioritize barriers hindering the transition to circular bio-based economy (CBBE) and identify interdependencies among them, based on the work documented in D1.1 and D1.2. These findings lay the groundwork for policy actions, ensuring a smoother transition to circular bio-based economies.

This position paper serves as a guide for policymakers, offering insights to bolster the growth of a bio-fabricated textile industry in Europe. It gives them an overview on biofabricated materials, technical, sustainability and economic aspects and finally it gives policy recommendations for a new European biobased economy.

The findings in this report showcase the outcomes of a comprehensive stakeholder consultation with the objectives of identifying and confirming the challenges that impede progress towards a sustainable circular bio-based economy. These barriers encompass various areas such as environmental, economic, and social sustainability, along with technical, structural, and cultural challenges.

The aim of this report is twofold: (i) to identify and describe policy goals that are essential for the transformation to a circular biobased economy (CBBE), and (ii) to develop policy portfolio scenarios for the four focus sectors of the project, namely construction, chemicals, plastics and textiles.

Calimero's Theory of Change identifies four pathways towards a sustainable future in the bio-based industry.

This report presents the SUSTRACK results on the validation of the monitoring and assessment framework and guidelines for the implementation of the case studies work.

This white paper serves as a vital resource for stakeholders in the textile industry, offering a comprehensive roadmap towards establishing capacities for bio-based circular textile manufacturing.

The public summary is a public deliverable made by the Consortium to briefly explain the project and its main focuses. It is divided into different section based on the various steps of process: biofabrication, post processing and scale up. It also covers the prototyping activities, the sustainability and market exploitation aspects.

This report presents the results of a review of existing knowledge for monitoring and evaluating the transition to circular biobased systems. More than 130 research items, including scientific articles and reports, were consulted to identify major gaps across indicators and approaches generally used to monitor and evaluate the bioeconomy across the three major policy-level analyses: micro-level (products/processes/companies), meso-level (city/regions) and macro-level (World, Europe or countries).

This deliverable describes the work carried out under Task 1.3 “KPI’s definition and validation” to define and describe the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) applicable in the PROPLANET project to enable efficient and effective monitoring of innovations. It provides a description of the technical, safety, environmental, economic and social KPIs that were defined based on the specific and strategic objectives of the project. It also describes the methodology and the target value/goal for the KPIs.

Environmental, social and economic hotspots are identified for 5 bio-based sectors through a literature review and existing methodologies and tools. In addition, potential gaps in the sustainability hotspots due to lack of data in existing databases and existing methodologies and tools across the three pillars of sustainability are identified.

In July 2023, as a results of two months of collaboration between the researchers, industry experts and other stakeholders involved in the project members, the ECOSYSTEX Community is publishing their first Input Paper identifying the most pressing and impactful research gaps and needs to be filled to enable the green transition of the European textile ecosystem.

The aim of this report is to identify and select feasible case studies to be used to design, test, and validate different methodologies and tools to be developed within SUSTRACK, as well as involve stakeholders for the different stakeholder interaction processes in the project.

This report presents SUSTRACK results on the environmental, economic, social and cultural limitations of the linear, fossil-based economy, as well as barriers and potential improvements associated with transitioning to a circular bio-based economy (CBBE).

Data collection protocol and template for the environmental, social and economic aspects of a number of bio-based sectors. It has been also identified current sources of pollution and resource use, their total costs, and data gaps. The sectors chosen for data collection include bio-chemicals, pulp and paper, textile, woodworking and construction.

The report describes the findings of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which was integrated by Cost (LCC) and Social investigation (S-LCA). The assessment focused on 6 new biobased large consumer products, namely carpet tiles for construction made of bio-based Nylon 6, bike pants made of bio-based Nylon 6, swimsuit made of bio-based Nylon 6, carpet tiles for construction made of bio-based Nylon 6.9, film for food packaging application made of bio-based Nylon 6.9, and film for non-food packaging application made of bio-based Polyester.