A mid-term dissemination event of the Interreg DRP PA8 flagship project TEX-DAN, hosted by the project partner HAMAG-BICRO, was held in Zagreb on 12 June 2025, in a hybrid form. It gathered in total over 65 participants from 11 countries of the Danube Region, including all project partners, representatives of the sister project GREEN-TEX, regional SMEs involved in pilot projects experts for sustainable textile and clothing, and academic researchers. The PA8 Coordinator from the Croatian Ministry of Economy provided an overview of PA8 current and planned activities, interlinkage with PA8 Working groups, especially with activities of the WG Circular and Bioeconomy. The common goals are circularity in textile and fashion value chains, circular production processes, zero waste concept, projects synergy (between TEX-DAN and GREEN-TEX) to enhance competitiveness of regional SMEs and spread circular practice, research findings, data exchange in the DR, with social and environmental impact.
The Lead partner Zoltán Bendó, from the South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency in Hungary, gave an overview of completed and current project activities and results.

The event included collaboration and interactive presentation of the TEX-DAN and GREEN-TEX pilot actions between TEX-DAN and GREEN-TEX. In the interactive pitch session with SME representatives the representatives of pilot SMEs presented their activities in the textile industry, experience from practitioners on challenges in circularity and contribution in the pilot projects.

The collaboration was sealed in signing ceremony in which TEX-DAN partners joined the GREEN-TEX pact.

The conference was closed by the panel discussion between CEOs of three Croatian SMEs: Textiloop, Galeb and Sabant that presented their challenges and achievements in implementing new technologies and business models operating on a textile circularity model underlining raising awareness of environmental and hazards as side effects of the fast clothing consumption.