This updated document analyses lifecycle steps, value chains, stakeholders, and initiatives, with a focused examination of the smart textiles sub-value chain within the broader textiles industry. It explores challenges and opportunities in advancing safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) practices for smart textiles.

This document provides an analysis of value chains, their stakeholders, and initiatives to support the EU’s transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy through safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) materials and products. As part of the IRISS project, it highlights challenges and opportunities in industries like textiles.

This document explores the skills, knowledge, and education gaps hindering the adoption of safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) principles across various value chains, including textiles. It aims to map training and knowledge needs, identifying mismatches and opportunities to enhance SSbD capacity building for industry stakeholders.

This report provides a comprehensive bibliographical study on circular economy and ecodesign, analysing the 9S strategy across various sectors with examples of its application to specific products and value chains, including the textile value chain.

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.

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.

The deliverable includes an overview of the main standards applicable to EFFECTIVE’s bio-based materials and products, with a specific focus on the textile value chain. It addresses the main characteristics of each standard, its applicability potential to the project, and identifies gaps that can be covered by future standardization activities.

The report describes the replicability studies and trials performed in the project to pave the way for the future applications of the developed biobased monomers, polymers, and biomaterials into market sectors different from the ones primarily targeted by the project.

The Deliverable assesses potential social acceptance issues toward the future market uptake of the biobased product prototypes developed within the project.