INTERNATIONAL DYER AND FUTURE MATERIALS – CONFERENCE HEARS HOW EU RESEARCH PROMOTES SMART TEXTILES AND HIGHLY CUSTOMISED CLOTHING IN EUROPE
April 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
PAOLO Canonico, the chairman of the European Technology Platform for the future of textiles and clothing has told researchers and textile businesses he sees enormous opportunities for textile research and innovation in the Horizon 2020 programme proposed in December by the European Commission. This would replace the current European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7) for research, and run from 2014 to 2020 with a significantly larger budget (Euro EUR80 billion) than the FP7's roughly EUR50 billion. However, Canonico ...
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