Heritex-Hub - A EuroWeb Network Project

17/02/2026

📣 The Call for Papers for the PunTex International Seminar "Weaving Knowledge: Experimental Textile Archaeology Between Practice and Method" is now open. 🤩

🧶 If you are working, or have worked, with Experimental Textile Archaeology and would like to discuss shared methodological frames of reference for future work, submit your proposal until 📆 the 15th of March to join us in Nicosia 🇨🇾 in September! 💪🏽

03/11/2025

👗 Are you working on the rich History of European dress cultures? Do you want to share your work and showcase your research? 📣

📑 There is still time to submit an abstract for the 2nd International Online Conference "Historical Clothing and Textiles In Europe", organised by the 🇱🇻 Latvijas Universitāte, to take place on the 📆 26th and 27th of February 2025.

📨 You can submit your abstract (up to 300 words) until the 10th of October. ℹ️ For more details on the conference and how to submit, please check the instructions below! ⬇️

21/08/2025

☀️ After some well-earned summer rest, the HERITEX-HUB team will head to 🇧🇪 Belgium next, for the International HERITEX-HUB Workshop "Shaping the EU Green Transition in Textiles and Fashion with Cultural Heritage", hosted by the Brussels Office of the Universitetet i Bergen (Brussels, 09-10/09). 🧶🇪🇺

📑 You can now check the full programme of the workshop at the following link:

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/ycyv3swh

🎉 The good news is that there are still some limited places available if you wish to join us in Brussels. If you will be close by and wish to join us, please register using the following form:

🔗 https://forms.gle/JdprBRaU3m9pBEK57

👀 Will we be seeing you in Brussels? Looking forward to it! 💪🏽

18/07/2025

🫵🏽 We want to hear from you! 📣 and our follow-up project HERITEX-HUB are all about empowering research on Textile Heritage to make an impact on the contemporary world, but what resources are out there to pursue this goal? 🏦

📑 In order to map those resources, we kindly ask you to participate in the survey devised by our colleague and team member Liviu Iancu on funding schemes for textile-related projects and for Textile Heritage-based research + business collaborations. 💰

🙏 It will only take a few minutes of your time, but the result will be an important shared resource to continue advancing Textile Heritage research in ! 🧶🇪🇺

🔗 You can access the survey using the link below: ⤵️

18/07/2025

📣 Great news! The book 'Funerary Textiles in Situ. Towards a Better Method for the Study of Textile-related Burial Practices' published by Springer is now out, and in too! ⛓️‍💥

📚 The volume, edited by Elsa Yvanez and Magdalena M. Wozniak, is the product of the workshop of the same name held in 2021 and supported by , which has also sponsored this publication. 💪🏻

⚰️🧶 This groundbreaking new volume, full of interesting case studies and complete with a methdological protocol for the documentation and study of funerary textiles, can be consulted now using the link below: ⬇️

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-69461-5.pdf

07/07/2025

📣 Members and followers of the network, we need your help! 💪🏻

🧶 EuroWeb's follow-up project, the COST Innovators Grant HERITEX-HUB, is conducting a survey with the aim of building a directory of inspiring sustainable textile and fashion projects and businesses across Europe. 📋🧵

💡 If you are aware of any such projects and businesses - especially ones which dialogue with Textile Heritage - let us know! And even if you do not, please share this call so that it reaches as many people as possible. 🙏

🤏🏼 The survey is very short, and takes only a couple of minutes to complete. You can find it using the link below. ⬇️

The team of the COST Innovators Grant HERITEX-HUB - Building a Heritage-Based Knowledge Hub to Empower the Green Transition in Textiles and Fashion (IG19131), funded by COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology, is looking to create a directory of inspiring sustainable textile and fashio...

26/05/2025

🛫 After two successful workshops in 🇵🇱 Warsaw and 🇵🇹 Lisbon, the HERITEX-HUB project is heading to 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, to the Centre for Textile Research, for an exciting Training School on Funding Opportunities for Projects in Sustainable Textiles and Fashion. 💰🧶

🗓️ On Tuesday and Wednesday a group of trainees will gather at the 🏛️ Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen to hear about different funding schemes and opportunities and how to prepare competitive and successful applications for grants, projects, and start-up businesses. 💪🏽

ℹ️ If you would like to take a look at the full programme, you can find it using the following link: 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/27mbcs8a

05/05/2025

💡 Are you an Early Career researcher or innovator looking to learn more about funding opportunities for your future career and research? 💰 Or how to maximize the impact and relevance of your research? 🔋 Than this opportunity is for you! 💪🏻

📣 We are happy to announce the Call for Papers for the International Training School on Funding Opportunities for Projects in sustainable Textiles and Fashion 🧶👗 organized by the COST Innovators Grant HERITEX-HUB and hosted by the 🇩🇰 Centre for Textile Research of the 🏛️ Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen.

📑 Applications are open until the 📆 14th of May. For full details on the call and how to apply, please visit the website using the link below ⬇️

🔗 https://euroweb.uw.edu.pl/news/members-and-research/international-heritex-hub-training-school-on-funding-opportunities-for-projects-in-sustainable-textiles-and-fashion-call-for-participants/

22/04/2025

🎉 Last week's International HERITEX-HUB Workshop 'Back in Fashion' was a hit! 💪🏽

📆 During two days, team members and other Textile Heritage researchers were able to share ideas and open discussions with colleagues from very different backgrounds, including craftspeople, creatives, business owners and trade association representatives. 🐑🧶👗

🙏 We are very grateful to this diverse group of colleagues for sharing their work, their perspectives and insights, and for giving us many inspiring ideas to continue the work of this COST funded project. 🧵♻️🇪🇺

11/04/2025

📣 It's coming! 📣

🧶♻️The second HERITEX-HUB event, the International Workshop 'Back in Fashion Textile Heritage and its Contribution for the Future of the Textile and Apparel Sectors' is right around the corner. 💪🏽

📆 Next Monday and Tuesday a range of speakers from the Textile Heritage Research field and from the Creative and Business Sectors will meet at the 🇵🇹🏛️ FLUL - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa in Lisbon to discuss how to foster synergies between Textile Heritage and contemporary textile creation and entrepreneurship to foster a greener future. 🌳👗

💻 If you would like to follow the event next Monday, you can pop into the EuroWeb YouTube channel where it will be streamed live. Just follow the link below! 🔗

📑 The full programme is available here: https://tinyurl.com/3x3dfb8x

International HERITEX-HUB Workshop 'Back in Fashion. Textile Heritage and its Contribution for the Future of the Textile and Apparel Sectors', funded by COST...