The 6th Annual ETP Conference was held with great success on 31 March & 1 April in Brussels. Some 140 participants from industry, research, European Commission and the press attended the event.
The conference also highlighted the various successful collaborations that the Textile Technology Platform has built with Technology Platforms in related sectors such as BioTex, ManuTex or the Alliance4Materials and Consumer Goods Research Initiatives. The second day of the conference was entirely dedicated to a demonstration of how innovative textiles help solving major societal challenges and thereby successfully target significant global growth markets such as health, energy, infrastructure, transport, security, food and water.
The chairman of the Textile ETP Mr. Dick Hendriks summarised the achievements of the platform during 2010 and early 2011 and gave an outlook on a number of new activities which will be launched during 2011, such as a European Textile Technology Marketplace or a number of important showcases of the results of European textile research at upcoming events like Techtextil-Texprocess or ITMA.
The event was preceded by an information session of the CrossTexNet ERA-Net. In this project public research funding agencies from 17 European countries or regions joined forces to fund cross-border textile research projects. During 2010, the first year of operation of CrossTexNet, 12 projects were selected for funding and will start during 2012. The 2nd call for project proposals has been launched on 1 March 2011 and 11 funding agencies will allow textile companies and research organisations in their countries/regions to bid for project funding.
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