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Registration for the Nordic-Baltic Textile Circularity Forum 2026 is now open! Join us for two days of insightful panel discussions, presentations from innovators, an exhibition, and valuable networking opportunities!

📅 When: 7–8 October 2026
📍 Where: Riga, Latvia

The forum will bring together textile circularity stakeholders—including waste management companies, collectors, sorters, investors, brands, designers, start-ups, researchers, policymakers, academia, and civil society—to address both European and regional dynamics:

🗓️ 7 October will center around the work of tExtended, with a focus on high-potential results across different segments of the value chain, digital tool demonstrations, and necessary pre-conditions to reducing textile waste in the EU by 80%.

🗓️ 8 October will focus on the Nordic-Baltic region, featuring discussions on the current state of textile circularity, a policy debate on EPR, and a conversation on future actions powered by the Nordic-Baltic Textile Transition Group.

Practical, market-ready solutions will be featured by pioneering companies like De Kringloopwinkel, Purfi, Têxteis J.F.Almeida, S.A., and Cyclothe. While the full program is being finalised, you can already view our first confirmed speakers here: https://textended.eu/2026/05/12/final-event-nordic-baltic-textile-circularity-forum-2026/

Please note: attendance is free, but travel or accommodation costs are not covered—though we have secured 20-30% discounts from several nearby and well-connected hotels thanks to the Riga Investment and Tourism Agency. As forum venue capacity is limited, our team will confirm your spot within one week and provide hotel booking instructions with the discount codes.

🌐 Register your interest here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-DGMAHEISU-j0ERPYT0argLaZ_OOD-pJr-KNb7DTC29UMzAxMlNaN09GNzMxN1lQRkVTVTBSSUMwQi4u

🤝 This space to meet, discuss, and get inspired is made possible through the resources invested by our two organizing initiatives:
-tExtended – a Horizon Europe-funded 4-year project working towards a systemic transformation in textile circularity across the EU.
-The Nordic-Baltic Textile Circularity project – a regional collaboration project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Offices in the Baltic States (Ziemeļvalstu Ministru padomes birojs Latvijā, Šiaurės ministrų tarybos biuras Lietuvoje, and Põhjamaade Ministrite Nõukogu esindus Eestis).

We hope to welcome you to Riga in October!

Last week, RISE Sweden hosted Day 2 of our 42M meeting, bringing our partners together for a full day of collaboration.

The agenda included work package presentations, an interactive workshop session, and a behind-the-scenes tour of RISE’s facilities.

Check out our Day 2 highlights to learn more about the day 👇

And that’s a wrap on tExtended’s 42M meeting! 🎉

A huge thank you to all our partners who joined us both in person and online. It was a fantastic opportunity to share key updates across our work packages, brainstorm ideas for our final event, and exchange innovative insights during our workshops.

Our Day 2 highlights will be shared next week, so stay tuned to see what the consortium got up to… 👀

As we kick off Day 2 of tExtended’s consortium meeting, we’re taking a moment to look back at some of yesterday’s highlights. ✨

Our partners enjoyed a productive day filled with work package updates, an engaging workshop, and an informative tour of the Textile Fashion Center.

A big thank you to our hosts, TEKO, for organising such a fantastic day!

Hello from Borås 👋

The 42M meeting has begun at the Textile Fashion Center! Our partners have come together to share work package presentations and take part in collaborative workshops as we head into the final 6 months of the project.

Keep an eye on our socials for more updates!

Next week, the tExtended partners will gather in Gothenburg & Borås, Sweden for our upcoming Consortium Meeting!

Partners from across Europe will come together to review project progress as we count down to our final event in October, all with the core goal of revolutionising Europe’s textile recycling strategies. ♻️

📢 Don’t miss the highlights, keep an eye on our social media channels for updates!

👕As part of tExtended's demonstrator, our partners Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto Oy (LSJH) has been involved in several activities to recycle post-consumer textiles.

Today we start with talking about the first one, their collaboration with the Finnish designer Rolf Ekroth in which post-consumer textiles provided by LSJH have been transformed into high-fashion garments to support his Encore collection for the Copenhagen Fashion Week 2025.

🔗Read the full article on our website: https://textended.eu/2026/04/23/lsjh-remanufactured-collection-with-rolf-ekroth/

Save the date! ⌛

📅 October 7–8 | 📍 Riga, Latvia

Please mark your calendars for the Nordic–Baltic Textile Circularity Forum 2026! The event will explore systemic textile circularity transformation and showcase practical examples and market-ready circular solutions for redesigned value chains.

The forum represents a strategic partnership between two key initiatives: tExtended, and the Nordic–Baltic Textile Circularity project aimed at strengthening regional collaboration, funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Offices in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Together, these teams host this major regional gathering and the final unveiling of the tExtended project’s results.

​​🔜 Stay tuned and follow tExtended and the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Offices in the Baltic States (Ziemeļvalstu Ministru padomes birojs Latvijā, Šiaurės ministrų tarybos biuras Lietuvoje, and Põhjamaade Ministrite Nõukogu esindus Eestis) for updates, the full agenda, and open registrations!

♻️Thank you to everyone who participated this morning to our 5th webinar!

We have listened to many insightful presentations coming from different actors involved in sorting activities, from De Kringloopwinkel dealing with the issue of fast fashion clothes to Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto Oy developing collaborations to upcycle their waste, with external interventions from another EU-funded project, SORT4CIRC, and HIDNstock, presenting their idea to connect waste and future users.

Did you miss it? Keep following this space - in the next days we will post the recording of the webinar on our channels 👀

Last days to register! Come and join us this Wednesday, April 1st, at 10 CET for a morning of discussions with experts from tExtended and the textile field about sorting, both issues and solutions 👕✂️

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_49rTbaeZQtS0G9UYvdQ3aQ