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News & articles

10 Dec 2025

Highlights from November BPC meeting

ECHA’s Biocidal Products Committee (BPC) adopted four opinions on active substances and three on Union authorisations.

Categories: Green transition

Best practices

09 Dec 2025

Ethletic: a practical approach to ethical and sustainable footwear

Ethletic is a German sneaker brand that puts fair-trade, sustainable and ethical production at the core of its supply chain. In 2004, Ethletic commercialised the...

Categories: Social dimension Sustainable competitiveness Textile +1 more

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Pledges

09 Dec 2025

COTANCE pledges to strengthen leather R&D, innovation, and skills to accelerate the green and digital transition of the European leather industry

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COTANCE

Organisation types:

Academic / Research and VET Institutions

Next progression check date:

09 Dec 2026

Categories: R&I, techniques and technological solutions Skills Sustainable competitiveness +3 more

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Pledges

09 Dec 2025

COTANCE pledges to continue advocating for the exclusion of bovine hides, skins and leather from the scope of the EUDR as they do not drive deforestation, while advancing global leather traceability through the Leather Traceability Cluster

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COTANCE

Organisation types:

Academic / Research and VET Institutions

Next progression check date:

09 Dec 2026

Categories: Sustainable competitiveness Regulation and public governance Textile +2 more

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Pledges

09 Dec 2025

COTANCE pledges to re-position leather as a natural, circular, and responsibly produced material that creates jobs and wealth from a residue of the livestock sector, while promoting the European leather industry as innovative, competitive, and attractive

Publishing organisations:

COTANCE

Organisation types:

Academic / Research and VET Institutions

Next progression check date:

09 Dec 2026

Categories: Sustainable competitiveness Regulation and public governance Textile +3 more

News

09 Dec 2025

Last chance to register for the webinar "Awareness raising on education and training opportunities needed for the twin transition"

Join us on Monday 15 December 2025, at 14.30 CET in this insightful discussion on the essential skills needed for the green and digital transition...

Categories: Adventure tourism Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism Cultural tourism +51 more

Projects

08 Dec 2025

The SOFTMANBOT project: advanced robotic solutions for handling soft materials in manufacturing

The SOFTMANBOT project was funded under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. It ran from October 2019 to March 2023, with the objective to develop robotic...

Categories: Investments and funding R&I, techniques and technological solutions Skills +12 more

News & articles

08 Dec 2025

Register for the webinar: From the Transition Pathway to the Action Plan: what’s next?

Registration is now open for the upcoming webinar “From the Transition Pathway to the Action Plan: what’s next?”, taking place on 18 December 2025 from...

Categories: EU Policy

18 December 11:30:00

Cross-sectoral event

Webinar “From the Transition Pathway to the Action Plan: what’s next?”

18 Dec 2025

08/12/2025 - 17/12/2025

Online event

Webex

Categories: EU Policy

Opinions

05 Dec 2025

Dopamine dressing and the fast-fashion feedback loop: why Europe needs a new textile culture

Dopamine-driven shopping habits, intensified by fast fashion and social media dynamics, are reshaping how people relate to clothing. The constant push for novelty fuels impulsive...

Categories: Social dimension Textile Apparel and clothing accessories