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Paving the way for a greener digital transition and more competitive European lifestyle industries and creatives
Call identifier: WORTH OC2
Publication date: 2022-10-25
Status: Closed
Opening date: 2022-10-25 11:00:00 (Brussels time)
Closing date: 2023-02-22 17:00:00 (Brussels time)
Call general detailsThematic areasSupporting documentation
Call Summary
WORTH Partnership Project fosters connection opportunities for designers, crafters, SMEs and tech firms and to encourage partnerships from lifestyle industries to:
• Enhance competitiveness and new designs and creations
• Integrate technologies in SMEs
• Foster new, innovative or high-added value products, processes or services developed in collaboration.
WORTH II through this Open Call intends to become Europe’s largest incubator programme for creatives, offering:
• Market-based financial support to develop innovative products, services or business models with a higher added value.
• A coaching programme and advisory services tailored to the needs and specificity of the different partnerships.
• Facilitating market-positioning and professional links between members of partnerships and other key players by organising networking activities and participating in relevant design events and exhibitions.
Call Keywords
Textiles
Clothing
Leather
Footwear
Jewellery
green transition
energy efficiency
carbon footprint reduction
interior design
accessories
Boosting competitiveness and innovation capacity of SMEs through Technology, Design & Creativity
The objective of the Call is to strengthen the competitiveness of SMEs in lifestyle industries and increase their innovation capacities through cross-sectorial, pan-European collaborations between SMEs, designers and technology providers to foster the integration of creativity, design and new technologies in SMEs with the aim of obtaining high added-value products, processes and services and at the same time enriching them with the exchange of knowledge and skills between the different actors involved.
Furthermore, considering the current energy and environmental crisis as well as the European Commission’s Industrial Strategy objectives, the alignment with the following additional objectives will be considered an asset bringing additional value to the project:
• The need to push for green and digital transition of lifestyle industries
• The need to aim at energy efficiency of lifestyle industries
• The need to reduce the carbon footprint of lifestyle industries
Topics:
Topic 1: Innovation in Textile FashionPartnerships in the textile fashion sector that enhance competitiveness and new designs and creations, integrate technologies in SMEs and foster new, innovative or high-added value products, processes or services
Topic 2: Innovation in FootwearPartnerships in the footwear sector that enhance competitiveness and new designs and creations, integrate technologies in SMEs and foster new, innovative or high-added value products, processes or services.
Topic 3: Innovation in Leather and FurPartnerships in the leather and fur sector that enhance competitiveness and new designs and creations, integrate technologies in SMEs and foster new, innovative or high-added value products, processes or services.
Topic 4: Innovation in JewelleryPartnerships in the jewelry sector that enhance competitiveness and new designs and creations, integrate technologies in SMEs and foster new, innovative or high-added value products, processes or services
Topic 5: Innovation in furniture, interior design home decoration productsPartnerships in the interior design home decoration products manufacturing & architecture (including furniture) sector that enhance competitiveness and new designs and creations, integrate technologies in SMEs and foster new, innovative or high-added value products, processes or services.
Topic 6: Innovation in accessoriesPartnerships in the accessories sector that enhance competitiveness and new designs and creations, integrate technologies in SMEs and foster new, innovative or high-added value products, processes or services.