Associate professor Wencke Gwozdz receives Horizon 2020 grant
Wencke Gwozdz receives Horizon 2020 grant
Associate professor Wencke Gwozdz's project is aimed at enabling designing high-value products from zero-value waste textiles and fibres via design driven technologies.
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020).
Within Trash-2-Cash, growing problems with paper fibre waste from the paper industry and textile fibre waste, originating from a continuously increasing textile consumption, will be solved through design-driven innovation. This will be performed by using the wastes to regenerate fibres that will be included into fashion, interior and other products.
The future exploitation will be ascertained through a two-sided exchange between the designers and the endproduct manufacturers, also taking into account the consumer-related product needs, and prototypes will be produced in a realistic test production environment. CBS’ role is to aid the integration of the individual processes into complete value chains with business potential by: a) chairing Work Package 6: Evaluation of the business, environmental, and consumer potential of developed design concepts and b) exploring the consumer potentials of recycled textile products.