October 5, 2020 by Alexender Schoitiz

Circular Textile Intelligence receives notice of funding

KI-Leuchttürme für Umwelt, Klima, Natur und Ressourcen by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Project Circular Textiles Intelligence (CRTX) receives notice of funding from the initiative „KI-Leuchttürme für Umwelt, Klima, Natur und Ressourcen“ (“AI Lighthouses for Environment, Climate, Nature and Resources”) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Artificial intelligence offers diverse potentials to contribute to climate and environmental protection. With the initiative “AI Lighthouses for the Environment, Climate, Nature and Resources”, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment supports projects that use their digital know-how and creativity to overcome ecological challenges. A total of 40 million euros in funding is available for this purpose. On October 5, 2020, Florian Pronold, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), personally handed over the funding approval for the CRTX joint project amounting to around 1.5 million euros to the project partners circular.fashion, TU Berlin and FU Berlin.

The BMU promotes the development and testing of the use of AI-based innovations to meet current ecological challenges. As AI lighthouses, these projects are intended to show with radiance how the use of artificial intelligence can contribute to the promotion of environmental protection and the circular economy.

“Artificial intelligence provides many solutions for the environment, climate and resources. We must exploit these potentials even more than before. This is why our initiative promotes technologies that specifically help to achieve the goals of climate and environmental protection. I am therefore particularly pleased to present the funding decisions to projects whose solutions successfully demonstrate the use of AI-based applications in the field of sustainable consumption and sustainability in the fashion industry. They show in an exemplary way that digitization and sustainable development belong together,” said Parliamentary State Secretary Florian Pronold.

“The Presidential Board of the TU Berlin is very pleased about the funding of the innovative and transdisciplinary project. The use of artificial intelligence to promote environmental protection and the circular economy is in line with the university’s goal of conducting research for the benefit of society and for sustainable development,” says Prof. Dr. Angela Ittel, Vice President Strategic Development, Young Researchers and Teacher Training at the TU Berlin. The joint project Circular Textile Intelligence (CRTX) is led by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Woggon, Head of the Department of Nonlinear Optics at TU Berlin.