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Who can join
Projects, digital tools and platforms, organizations managing or supporting circular textile projects
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Goals
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Increase quality of and access to foundational textile and reverse logistics data to scale up viable circular textile solutions
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Identify economic (dis)incentives for textile circulation
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Improve efficiency and results of publicly funded projects
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Pilot and launch a network for circular textile data exchange across the private and public sectors
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How it works in practice
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We start by reviewing the activities and needs of each participant and defining the scope of our collaboration
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Activities for textile circulation projects:
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Access methodologies and tools for regular data collection and reporting, with information is stored in a private, secure database
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Co-develop project-specific insights and best practices for textile circulation based on project and external data
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Co-develop publicly available Insights, best practices and shared data sets with other TEXroad partners
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Activities for digital tech development projects:
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Define use cases for data access and exchange with the public and / or private sectors
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Map data models to the TEXroad dictionary
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Define data access, usage and exchange permissions
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Test interoperability and integrate it
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Exchange data based on use cases, available data, and permissions
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All participants have the option of a quarterly working session to stay up to date on the latest data exchange possibilities and increase the value of collaboration
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Benefits
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Save project hours with a existing methodologies, data models and tools to measure textile flows
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Pin-point challenges and scale feasible solutions faster with comparable data and metrics
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Improve economics of circular textiles by identifying bottlenecks in the system
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Get one-on-one support for project-specific needs
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Scale up the circular textile industry faster with open-access resources