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WP1: Project and data management

Objectives

To ensure the strategic and technical management of the project.
To ensure an efficient administrative and financial management of the project.
To foresee any risks of delay and set up mitigation plans and corrective actions.

WP2: Dissemination, communication, and exploitation

Objectives

To monitor and provide means for the partners to share their knowledge within and beyond the consortium.
To integrate the research and industrial activities to ensure high-level engagement of relevant stakeholders.
To prepare and encourage the uptake of the project’s results and ensure replicability.

WP3: Formulation & functionalisation of biobased materials for e-textile

Objectives

To guarantee laboratory scale production of eco-friendly bleached natural fibres that substitutes current Soda hydrogen peroxide with similar bleaching efficiency and to implement it at the pilot scale
To develop an efficient and eco-friendly biopolymer (lignin) extraction method from shives (as by product of low cost from flax and hemp plants) for further use in fabrics and sensor padding
To functionalise natural fibres and lignin to achieve responsive flax/hemp fibre to external stimulus allowing conductive tracks within e-textile and morphing features
To ensure the compatibility of lignin for flexible composite and fabrics
To develop the optimised formulation for composite padding in view of damping, eclectic and water transfer
Breathability of the textile fabrics

WP4: Sustainable e-textile design & production

Objectives

To study and develop biobased flexible matrices for e-textile to embed sensors
To integrate sensors on textile for environmental monitoring, ensuring its compatibility with flexible and stretchable e-textile
To study and develop eco-sustainable hybrid textile fabrics with specific functionalities
To design and integrate bioinspired biomimetic sustainable e-textiles
To develop and optimise a smart protective sustainable cross-country biking suit and produce the prototypes in industrial environment

WP5: Development of digital tools for textile process & products

Objectives

To develop constitutive models for enhanced fibres and fabrics for zero-defect products
To balance between the model complexity and computational efficiency
To address the inherent variability in material properties and geometries of natural fibres
To develop physics-based model digital twins for AM
To automate textile processing using AI

WP6: Performance reliability and durability development

Objectives

To implement standard tests at different scales to deeply characterise the fibres, preforms and composites using lab-scale and large instruments to achieve zero-defect products
To implement specific investigations through scientific in-situ and multi-scale protocols to fully evaluate textile performances including breathability, electric, thermal, and mechanical performance
To assess the durability of the WP3/4/7 biobased materials and demonstrators under accelerated aging conditions and relevant environments
To ensure reproducibility and reliability of the properties generated in the project for industrial use with well characterised uncertainty
To evaluate the performance of the proof of concepts, in uncontrolled and controlled conditions

WP7: Recyclability, circularity & additive manufacturing

Objectives

To develop AI-assisted fabric components sorting technique to separate synthetic and natural component and improve sorting efficiency
To prototype highly customised components with natural fibre-based composite filament by additive manufacturing
To ensure degradability investigation of natural fibre-based fabric & composite materials under different environmental conditions including normed trials, which qualifies the fabrics degradability.
To optimise biobased polymer content for best printability and high mechanical performance
To develop a waste fabric recycling method for new fabric uses

WP8: Environmental, social, and economic assessments

Objectives

To assess the environmental sustainability, economic viability, and social impacts of the e-textile value chain.
To guide development choices with respect circularity, renewability, and general sustainability concerns.
To promote consumer acceptance and value chain data exchange in the context of circular bioeconomy.