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Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? I am an R&D engineer with a degree in chemistry, and I have been working for 5 years at IFTH, the French Textile & Fashion Institute. I have always loved to travel and exchange with people from different backgrounds and countries, …

Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? I have been a gilder and plater for 38 years, since 1996 at Bertin Aubert and its subsidiary ARTE, and previously with TSEP plating company. I have spent more than 3 decades in the world of technical coating for both space …

A new meeting of the External Expert Advisory Board of Maturolife was held last October 2 in Brussels, with attendance of the project’s Executive Board who summarized the last updates on both Design and Materials innovation, and collected the comments from the Experts.

GEDS, represented by its Founder Mrs Gulay Ozkan has received in Boston (Mass., USA) the prestigious second place at the DMI’s 2019 Design Value Awards among bis names as 3M, Honeywell, McKinsey, and Target, and would like to sincerely thank the European Commission, founding the project under H2020 scheme, and …

Maturolife welcomes Yesim Oguz-Gouillart and Clément Durand from IFTH Tourcoing, replacing Pauline Ronjat who is leaving the group end of October. They have hosted last October 8 another WP8 meeting in Paris, attended by the partners of this workpackage.

A very fruitful and successful Mid-term meeting was held end of June in Istanbul, hosted by partner GEDS. Gulay Ozkan and her team have welcomed with professionalism all 20 partners and the project Monitoring Officer Mrs Raluca Maria Aileni, for a 3-day meeting, followed by individual interviews published on YouTube (LINK).

We are welcoming our newest member to the MATUROLIFE Stakeholder Representative Panel: Catherine Marcadier-Saflix! The Stakeholder Representative Panel consists of experts in the field and guides and support MATUROLIFE’s work along the project timeline. As the creator of En Mode Création(s), a consulting agency with the mission to convince the …

As MATUROLIFE has completed the first round of co-creation workshops with older persons and carers, we would like to give you a few more insights from Gulay Ozkan, leading the design of MATUROLIFE: Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? I am an Istanbul-based entrepreneur and founder of …

  WP4: Selective Catalysation & Metallisation of Fabrics & Textiles   PEL installed a thermal ink-jet printer at Coventry University to facilitate the selective catalysation of textiles. This enabled Coventry University to carry out the first printing tests of the Copper Nanoparticle catalyst using the MATUROLIFE logo as a test image. …