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WEAR Sustain Newsletter – August 2017

It has been a busy month for WEAR Sustain as the 23 Awarded Teams from Open Call 1 begin working on their projects and meeting with their mentors and hubs. You can view all the teams and find out more about them on our website. WEAR Sustain Induction Day…

Aug 08, 2017

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Wow on The Importance Of Mentoring Start Ups

Women of Wearables is the UK’s and Europe’s first organisation that supports and connects women in wearable tech, fashion tech, IoT and VR/AR. Its mission is to encourage more women and diverse teams to participate in building hardware and software products as designers, product managers and developers…

Aug 08, 2017

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What are WEAR Sustain Mentors?

Mentors are a key part of the WEAR Sustain network, and crucial in helping the awarded projects to develop over the course of their funding. In this short article we’ll explain a little more about what the mentor does to support the teams, and how…

Jul 24, 2017

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WEAR Sustain Open Call 1 – Induction Day

The 23 awardees from WEAR Sustain Open Call 1 gathered at the offices of IMEC in Brussels on Tuesday 18 July 2017 to meet for the first time and present their projects to each other. The representatives from each team also took part in a…

Jul 21, 2017

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Neo-Materials in the Circular Economy – Fashion

WEAR Sustain consortium partner Blumine Srl has released a new book ‘Neo-materials in the Circular economy – Fashion’, edited by Marco Ricchetti in collaboration with Sustainability-Lab (part of Blumine Srl). The book provides a useful overview of changes occurring in the global economy, starting from…

Jul 14, 2017

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WEAR Sustain Newsletter – July 2017

We are absolutely delighted to announce that 23 winning teams have been selected to receive WEAR Sustain funding. Selected teams will go on to develop their ethical Next Generation wearable technology, smart or electronic textile over the next 6 months. Stay tuned for details in July on the…

Jul 04, 2017

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23 teams selected for WEAR Sustain funding

WEAR Sustain is absolutely delighted to announce that 23 winning teams have been selected to each receive up to €50,000 in funding. Congratulations to the talented winning teams! Our first cohort of Awardees will go on develop their proposed collaborative prototypes, which address our Open…

Jul 04, 2017

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Ethics & Sustainability Resources

WEAR Sustain has collated an excellent resource of presentations and videos on the subjects of collaboration, sustainability and ethics, kindly supplied by our event co-organisers and the speakers who participated in our first Open Call events this April and May. We have collated…

Jul 03, 2017

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Industry News Round Up – June 2017

If you are thinking about applying for the second WEAR Sustain Open Call – taking place in autumn – there are a lot of interesting developments being announced at the moment that might inspire your proposal. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and…

Jun 30, 2017

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Video of Creative Ring events supporting WEAR Sustain Open Call

Jun 05, 2017

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