ekip Events

The EKIP consortium—the European Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Policy Platform—is pleased to invite you to its Policy Dialogue in Milan, the closing session of a full day dedicated to collaborative exchange and co-creation on the future of the fashion and textile sectors.

Building on the morning’s Policy Lab, a collaborative session where stakeholders explored how research and innovation policies can foster eco-design practices and enable the implementation of Digital Product Passports (DPP), the Dialogue will address the broader role of innovation policies in the Cultural and Creative Sector (CCS).

Today, the concept of Fashion Transition: Eco-design for Circularity is increasingly recognized as a strategic framework for rethinking the fashion industry in response to pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges. This transition extends beyond mere regulatory compliance, representing a complex innovation process that demands cross-sectoral collaboration, ecosystem-based approaches, and inclusive governance. Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) are central to this transformation, contributing narrative influence, symbolic value, and creative vision to the redefinition of production and consumption models. Grounded in the Eco-design for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), and reinforced by the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles eco-design and tools such as the digital product passport serve as crucial instruments to advance circularity, inclusivity, and transparency throughout supply and value chains.

The EKIP Policy Dialogue will offer a platform for policymakers, CCIs, SMEs, and local ecosystem actors to exchange perspectives, align strategic priorities, and identify actionable pathways toward a fair and sustainable transition in the fashion and textile sectors.

We look forward to your participation in shaping this dialogue and contributing to a shared vision for the future of fashion and textiles in Europe.

 About ekip

ekip is an EU-funded flagship-project that follows the principles of open innovation to establish a policy recommendation engine driven by partners and the active involvement of 40+ CCI-networks. This engine promotes the development and adoption of policy recommendations for CCIs, resulting in support and guidance that enhances the ability of CCI actors to participate in and contribute to complex innovation processes.