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The CiD project meeting in Genoa, held June 12th-14th 2024, has been a significant gathering of partners collaborating to define guidelines for Academic, Continuous Education and Accelerator courses. It took place at the Architecture and Design Department of the University of Genoa, in a beautiful setting overlooking the roof garden of the historical university building.  During the Academic Programme Session, partners from UNIGE, LUH, and IAAC presented their academic timelines for 2025. This session emphasized the importance of defining and validating the guidelines for the CiD Course and explained the strategies for implementation. Collaborative activities focused on creating and completing…

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From 4 to 6 June the municipality of Aarhus in cooperation with Lifestyle and Design Cluster hosted the second workshop of the “Creative Circular Cities” project – a Business Lab. During the Lab the six cities taking part in the project – Aarhus, Gdynia, Kiel, Riga, Tallinn and Turku – refined their business incubation pilots for facilitating CCSI-supported circular business models.  The dynamic three-day workshop was led by sustainable business advisor Jasper Steinhausen and along with the director of the partnership “Trace” Anette Juhl, behavioral scientist Pelle Guldborg Hansen and the leader of the association “Rethink Human Being” Christian Dietrichsen,…

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In the context of the BALTIC2HAND project, Tallinn Creative Incubator organized a webinar, where Toomas Allikas, who has led Greenful Group as CEO, recounted the company’s journey, and dived into the staggering figures of global textile waste problem. As an introduction, Toomas Allikas painted a vivid picture of the crisis “There are 92 million tonnes of textile waste produced worldwide with approximately 12 million tons in Europe. One garbage truck of textile waste is landfilled or incinerated every single second.” The magnitude of the problem is staggering. It’s estimated that fast fashion will increase by 300% in the next three…

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In the CCC project kick-off event in Riga the six demo cities involved in the project – Aarhus, Gdynia, Kiel, Riga, Tallinn and Turku – presented their initial plans for activities during the project.  Bulky waste as a resource  In Gdynia the project is implemented by two partners – the Design Centre which represents the municipality and the association “Pomorskie in the European Union”.  Within the project the Design Centre plans to create a strategy and pilot a waste management program in Gdynia. This will be done by organizing a series of workshops and training sessions addressed at the design…

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Tisora studio is a graphic design studio born in Barcelona and based in Tallinn. They develop contemporary visual strategies for worldwide enterprises, ventures, and people committed towards culture, innovation, and a fairer and more sustainable world. We sat down with our incubant and the company’s creator Jordi Serrano and asked him, how he decided to start his graphic design studio and why he decided to set up the business in Estonia. What is your background? I first started studying sociology at the university in Barcelona. But then I realized that I needed to find some balance between the things, I’m…

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In May, Tallinn Creative Incubator organized international Export Speed Mentoring, that brought together designers and mentors form Estonia, Sweden, Poland and Germany. In addition to 84 mentoring sessions, successful brands shared their success stories with exporting. One of them was Liebre Style brand from Poland.  Elena Gasulla from Liebre Style (Poland) introduced their journey with export. Elena Gasulla launched Liebre Style in 2017 and the brand offers leather bags and shoes, that are inspired by elegant textiles around the world. How did Liebre Style start? Libre Style founder Elena Gasulla says that they are textile hunters and travel to different…

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