On 24.01.2023, in Kaunas University of Technology campus, Lithuania, the second transnational meeting took place, within the Erasmus+ project 2021-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000032075 with the title: «Circular economy in fibrous composites and technical textiles using virtual laboratories» (CircuTex).

All partner institutions – UNIWA (Greece), IDEC (Greece), UO (Romania), UPV (Spain) and the host institution KTU (Lithuania)- actively participated in the meeting where issues related to the evolution of the project of all the items (Intellectual Outputs, Dissemination Activities, Quality Plan, Exploitation Plan and Financial Management) were discussed and deadlines were set for each activity to comply with the established planning.

4 experiments of the virtual laboratory were presented and shown using the VR glasses. All attendees tried the glasses and were able to access the virtual environment and perform the experiments related to the identification of textile fibres. 

On 2 November 2022, the conference «Europe – New textile projects for a new economy» was held on the Vera campus of the Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia, within the framework of activities of the «Sustainable Fashion: Textiles of the future» programme. It was a day where several lecturers participated and discussed the latest research and innovations in the textile sector: recycling, circularity, sustainability… which are the challenges that the sector is facing urgently.

Pablo Díaz, head of the CircuTex project, was one of the lecturers who participated in the conference with the presentation of the project «Circular economy in fibrous composites and technical textiles through the use of virtual laboratories». The conference was held in person but was also broadcast in streaming through UPV-[Media]. It was attended by a large number of people, mainly students from the university, companies, organisations and institutions from the textile sector.

If you want to know more about the project, we invite you to visit our website http://circutex.eu/ or follow us on social media.

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On 14 October, the Circutex project was presented at the UPV-Alcoy Campus during the Erasmus Days.

The presentation was attended by students and staff of the Campus, all of them were explained what the project was about and the students also used the virtual reality glasses and participate in one of the virtual practices that are being developed for the project. The demonstration with the VR glasses was very welcome and was an activity that attracted and encouraged the students.

In addition, Erasmus Days promotional material and reusable bags with the project logo were distributed among the attendees.

If you want to know more about the project, we invite you to visit our website www.circutex.eu or to follow us on social media.

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The project’s leaflet is out!

El Campus UPV-Alcoy participa en las Jornadas Erasmus.

El proyecto Circutex será presentado el 14 de octubre.

¡Ven, conócenos y conoce el proyecto!

Más información: CIRCUTEX PROJECT – Erasmusdays 

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The Circutex project kick started with a face-to-face meeting, hosted by Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), in Alcoy (Spain) on 31.05.2022.

It brought together for the first time the five partners of the project. During the kick-off meeting, the working tasks for the following months were described and assigned.

Also, UPV, presented a demonstration of the virtual laboratory via Oculus Quest. Virtual laboratory constitute major part of the project, as for the second project result (PR2) will be attempted the implementation of virtual experiments via virtual laboratory.

The project started on 28 February 2022 and the first meeting took place online. It was held on 31.02.2022.

During this meeting partners discussed the general aspects of:

• Project Management

• Dissemination and

• Quality requirements

The next meeting of the project will be held face to face in Alcoy, Spain!