DeFINE: Insights for the Fashion-tech entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe

The DeFINE project has as aims to create a bridge between cutting-edge innovations in the European fashion-tech industry. Co-funded by the European Commissions’s COSME programme, this three-year project that started in 2018 benefits the whole fashion-tech community in Europe.

The project partners aims to inspire and build stronger and deeper relationships within European fashion-tech community. By developing a network of key stakeholders, launching mentoring activities, followed by knowledge and best practices sharing with wider public.

It is led by 10 prestigious partners from across Europe covering three important types of actors of the industry. First, we have four major Fashion and design institutions such as The London College of Fashion (UAL-LCF); Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) with Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (FPM) in Italy and, l’Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) in France.

Secondly, three valuable Business support organisations are also involved: Inkubatorn I Boras AB (INK) in Sweden; CEEI Burgos (CEEIB) in Spain and the Cyprus Research & Innovation Center (CYRIC). Finally, to represent the European fashion and textile network, we have EURATEX and the European Business and Innovation Centres Network (EBN) in Belgium as well as Media Deals in Germany.