Research*EU Magazine | Number 48 (December 2015/January 2016)

New horizons for the textile value chain

Summary:

It is no secret that the European textile industry is facing fierce competition from China and other parts of the world where production costs are much lower. Imports continue to grow every year and if this sector — which employed 1.6 million people in 2014 — is to keep prospering over the years to come, it certainly needs to go back to its roots of high quality products and innovation while answering growing concerns over health and pollution.

This edition of the Research*EU magazine highlights this theme, as well as a handful of results from recent FP7 projects including MACH-TO and MYWEAR. The project coordinators of I-TEX ad DIGIFIN — also accepted to discuss their projects’ results in this month’s interviews. This special feature is followed by eight sections providing insights into biology and medicine, social sciences and humanities, energy and transport, environment and society, IT and telecommunications, industrial technologies, food and agriculture and physics and mathematics, along with a list of upcoming events hosted by or involving EU-funded research projects.

Contents:

Health

Digital Economy

Industrial Technologies

Energy

Climate Change and Environment

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