How can circular principles be effectively integrated into corporate strategies beyond recycling? Which approaches work in practice? These questions guided the online workshop "From Thread to Cycle: Business Models for a Circular Future", held on 25 September 2025 as part of the BMFTR funding initiative "Resource-Efficient Circular Economy - circular sustainable textiles."

The kick-off conference at the Umweltforum Berlin on 11 and 12 March 2025 marked the start of the new 'Circular Textiles' funding measure from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), in which a total of 16 joint research projects and an accompanying networking and transfer project will be working on solutions to support a circular textile economy until 2028. The aim of the event, which was attended by around 100 people, was to present the individual projects, identify common challenges and derive cross-cutting topics for collaborative work.

Kemper, Melanie 2024: ZirTeNet: Websitekonzept - Planung der Informationsarchitektur von www.zirkulaere-textilien.de. Ecologic Institut. Berlin. Unpublished.

Ecologic Institute designed and developed the project website "Circular Textiles" within the networking and transfer project of the funding program "Resource-efficient circular economy – circular sustainable textiles: development of holistic, practical solutions for closing loops in the textile industry". The website provides an overview of all funded joint projects. It also contains information on the projects and events, as well as news from the networking and transfer project.

With ZirTeNet, Ecologic Institute supports the networking and coordination of sixteen research and innovation projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the programme "Resource-efficient circular economy – circular textiles".