Projet SCARPA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Worldwide consumption of footwear per year per person has increased from 1 pair of shoes in 1950 to over 3 currently. In 2022, approximately 23.9 billion pairs of shoes were produced globally. In the EU alone, it is estimated that the amount of postconsumer shoes waste is over 1 million tonnes per year. End-of-Life (EoL) management is gaining more attention in the footwear industry, due to increased raw material costs, environmental legislations and ambitious textile waste management targets, e.g., 50% of textiles must be recycled and 20% must be reused from 2025 onwards. However, the recycling rate of footwear is still lower than 5%. This is due to the wide variety of components, e.g., footwear can consist of up to 40 different components, which makes a circular approach to EoL challenging. It is clear that footwear needs a radical shift to achieve circularity. This shift involves simpler shoe design with similar functionality, consumers willing to buy sustainable shoes and increase the longevity, installation of collection and sorting infrastructure, and cost-efficient recycling processes producing high quality secondary resources from old shoes.  The SCARPA Doctoral Network on footwear circularity has a clear mission: to train a new generation of experts who possess the skills and fundamental knowledge required to understand how footwear should be designed to allow recycling, how consumers play a role in the value chain, how different recycling technologies can create high value recyclates, and how a decision in one part of the value chain influences the whole value chain’s sustainability, including LCA.

Mots clés : footwear, textile, recycling, reuse, sustainability, waste management, plastics

Participants :
- Tekstilrevolutionen aps (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Gand (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1154160.0 €
- Polykey polymers sl (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 282188.16 €
- Trinseo netherlands bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Adidas (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Braskem europe gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Nike european operations (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Polysecure gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Leoben (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 605085.84 €
- Bt-systems gmbh (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- BASF (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Design School Kolding (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 671780.16 €
- Newretex as (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Vaer upcycled aps (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Decathlon produzione italia srl (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Frasson spa (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Re-sport srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 281755.08 €
- Université de Maastricht (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 305285.76 €
- Université technique du Danemark (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 671780.16 €
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281755.08 €
- Basque center for macromolecular design and engineering polymat fundazioa (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Torfs l (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Vireca (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université du Pays basque (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 282188.16 €
- Behave green aps (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Atc footwear a/s (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Scan as (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Dainese spa (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €