EU HORIZON Project „R-evolve“  
The sofia research group (sofia) and the Innovation and Transformation Platform for Sustainable Development (itp:ne) are participating in the ongoing project "R-evolve". It is an EU HORIZON funded project in cooperation with the furniture industry. The project introduces systemic changes to evolve the furniture industry towards the Circular Economy (CE) through the implementation of innovative circular business models, material & design strategies and the Digital Product Passport (DPP).
The sofia research group and the itp:ne work in depth on the DPP and governance issues and take the lead in the task to develop a governance framework for the DPP in the furniture industry and to develop policy recommendations. In addition to this leading roles, both, sofia and itp:ne, will support the consortium in many other tasks.
R-evolve began in November 2024 and will end in October 2028.
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EU HORIZON Project „TRUSTex“
The textile industry has experienced exponential growth in recent decades due to globalization. This increase in production is proportional to the environmental impact of the industry, which is currently ranked as the fourthmost impactfull sector on the environment. This underlines the urgent need for a transformative change to a circular, sustainable and competitive economy. The project´s main ambition is to enhance the circularity and sustainability of the EU’s textile value chain through the design, testing and optimization of exemplary solutions, and extracting recommendations for EPR schemes’ deployment across the entire product lifecycle.
The sofia and itp:ne team work in depth on the Regulatory landscape analysis, governance aspects on DPP and deriving governance best practice elements of EPR schemes. In addition to these leading roles, both, sofia and itp:ne, support the consortium in many other tasks.
TRUSTEX begin in January 2025 and will end in December 2027.
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ECHT project (Interreg)
Enable Digital Product Passports with Chemicals Traceability for a Circular Economy
Sustainable product policies under the Green Deal prioritise textiles for new ecodesign requirements and the introduction of a Digital Product Passport (DPP). The measures require stakeholders to have access to detailed product information including material compositions and associated impacts: The traceability of chemicals in materials is an important prerequisite for circular products and business models.
The team of the Innovation and Transformation Platform for Sustainable Development (itp:ne) supported by the sofia team is leading the project, including the transdisciplinary ‘Scenario Process’ with the ‘scenario stories’ and the related ‘Theory of Change’.
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ChemTax
EU-Taxonomy and sound management of chemicals - Classification, transparency, and financing as levers towards safe and sustainable substances, chemicals and chemical processes
This interdisciplinary doctoral project aims to incentivise the chemical industry more strongly to align its activities closely with the Taxonomy's environmental objectives – specifically 'Pollution Prevention & Control (PPC)’ and 'Transition to a Circular Economy (CE)'. This initiative seeks to actively engage diverse actors from industry, finance sector, NGOs, the Platform on Sustainable Finance, EU Directorates and working groups to collaboratively develop and evaluate suitable design options for the EU Taxonomy as well as underlying delegated acts, economic activities and respective Technical Screening Criteria (TSC).
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Latest update: 2026-04-29