SAP Tools for Circular Textiles
ESR 14
There is a very limited number of analyses that would look into the specific industries when analysing challenges for Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP). This is especially true in the case of the textile and clothing industry, one of the most polluting and resource-damaging industry in the world. The ESR project aims to provide interdisciplinary research into the SPP tools that will enhance sustainability and Circular Economy (CE) principles more effectively in this industry contributing in achieving especially SDGs 9 & 12.
Furthermore, the project aims to develop a theoretical model based on societal and individual needs and desire for textiles. This approach will give new insights and perspectives on how and which tools are necessary in order to make the Public Procurement of textile become more sustainable. This will require methodological triangulation by using research methods from different disciplines (law, economics and business, sociology and environmental studies)
ESR 14 is supervised Małgorzata Koszewska and by co-supervised by associate professor Eva Andersson Strand.
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Host Institution: Lodz University of Technology
PLANNED SECONDMENTS
University of Copenhagen (3-month resident work with co-supervisor to create a theoretical model that will apply to the work of the research
into the SAP)
Fair Trade Advocacy (2-month research SDG awareness in the clothing industry; training on assessing sustainability in the supply
chain of uniforms)
Association for the Innovation, Teaching and Promoting of Sustainable Development in Life Sciences and in Applied or Social Sciences in Europe and the World (2-month participation in dissemination and awareness-raising on sustainable PP practices for uniforms
