EDITO
Thank you, dear readers, for following our monthly project news, inspirations and meetings. Wishing you for 2025 to develop your sustainable innovations, your creativity and your organizations to live well together.
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PROJECTS
OPEN CALL
FABRIX
The Fabrix project, of which Cedecs-TCBL is a partner, is holding an open call for textile and clothing industry facilitators active in Athens and Rotterdam. Facilitators have a high capacity to engage stakeholders and help set up a local circular production system. The call seeks 2 facilitators in each city who will receive funding of €25.000 each. Find the call information
TRAINING
VETRINE
Cedecs-TCBL is partner of the project VETRINE, which launches its free course Green Vetrine: an introduction to sustainable garment design and manufacturing with an online presentation and Q&A on January 14th, 2025. Sign up here
MAPPING
FABRIX
Change the city with maps enriched with existing information. One model among others is the Nearby Wiki, which associated with an existing X-maps allows a resident or a tourist to access geolocated Wikipedia resources. An idea to relocate the economy other than with the notes and opinions that we deploy during the project.
SUSTAINABILITY
POLITICO
An interview, a discussion and two round tables closed the European Sustainability Week organized under the aegis of Politico, and among the important themes: the fight against soil erosion, the need to move to industrial scale for zero impact technologies, the revision of REACH and the expected acceleration of 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). More here
EU COTTON
TCBL
EU Cotton took stock of its work on December 10 in Paris. This association relies on the two leaders in cotton production, Greece and Spain. It seeks to promote this production in Europe, by helping with partnerships e.g. Gucci with the Pietro Masserini spinning mill (Sicily) or the planting of regenerative cotton for a group of brands (France) and aims to re-establish this entire value chain on the European continent. This project is in line with the revaluation of European cotton explored in TCBL, starting with the quality of bales and spinning. More on the TCBL project
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INSPIRATIONS
IA, creativity and cognition
So-called AI models are algorithms trained on large databases and based on complex statistical correlation models. These models actually save time when producing an image, text, etc. but they have at least two faults: they substitute improvement for creation—in fact, "creativity" is based on the association of ideas which alone allows reflection outside the field and authorizes ruptures in paradigms, of which we we need in times of turbulence; by reducing some of our basic cognitive tasks—even just understanding how the algorithm works—they make us dependent on technology rather than free. LIRE
New generations of AI are already being prototyped
Too energy-intensive and trained on “trash” corpora, Large Language Models are in the process of being replaced by Small Language Models, on edited corpora of data and much less energy-consuming. And a new trendy profession: data cleaners! LIRE
AI in Europe
Europe wants to double the computing capacity of EuroHPC by 2025-2026 and equip itself with experimentation platforms to test AI models and applications. The targeted hubs are: Spain (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, MareNostrum 5); Italy (CINECA, Bologna Tecnopolo); Finland (CSC, LUMI AIF in Kajaani); Luxembourg (LuxProvide, Meluxina-AI in Bissen); Sweden (Linköping University, MIMER); Germany (University of Stuttgart, HammerHAI) and Greece (GRNET, Pharos in Athens). LIRE
Structural reversal of luxury values as the main reason for the decline in this market according to the NYT
Luxury groups (except Hermès, naturally) have betrayed their DNA: by multiplying low-quality products, which were once products of a lifetime, even multi-generational; by selling them at stratospheric prices, which have doubled over the past five years; by targeting new millionaires sensitive to collaborations with stars, social media and brand logos. Specific examples to find here
AGENDA
HEIMTEXTIL
January 14-17, 2025, Frankfurt
The world's largest variety of home textiles as well as product offers for interior design, hospitality, sleep and the carpet industry. Register
WSN / Creative Hub
January 18-20, 2025
Managing a hub to combine know-how, creativity and responsibility.
ENSAD / Open Days
Discover the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL de Paris on Friday January 31 from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday February 1 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on its calendar
Many thanks to our contributors of the month, Alexandra, Guy, Jesse, Thanos and to our editors, Frédérique, Jean-Renaud.
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