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Find out more about Community Membership
Anyone interested in textile, clothing and fashion sustainability is welcome to become a TCBL Community member, and it’s free to join. All you have to do is complete the TCBL Sign-up Survey, a short accreditation process, and agree to follow TCBL values.
Why should you join the TCBL Community?
- Get access to like-minded colleagues, suppliers and clients – the kind of people you can trust in your supply chain.
- Make yourself known in the network through your directory profile listing, the details of which are only visible to other Community members.
- Be invited to attend our interactive events and receive updates through the TCBL Newsletter.
How to sign up
By completing the short sign-up survey, you demonstrate that:
- You are active and competent in one or more aspects of the textile and clothing industry.
- You are interested in the innovation experiments involving TCBL Labs, Businesses, and Service Platforms.
- You are aligned with the TCBL Values in your activities and in your expectations towards those you work with.
Once you’ve successfully completed the survey, you’ll be given an account in the TCBL Community member space and access to update your profile information. Participation in the TCBL Community is free of charge.
If at any point you wish to upgrade your participation in the Association, please email info@tcbl.eu.
Students
Students are offered a special form of Community membership, on the condition that they are enrolled in an institution that is accredited as a TCBL Lab. While not gaining effective membership in the TCBL Association, they can access the full range of Member Services with a yearly contribution of 25 Euro. If you wish to become a TCBL Student, first sign up to the TCBL Community through the above link, upon which a TCBL mentor will reach out to you to complete the process.
Are you and your organisation really committed? All Community members can apply for their organisation to become an Accredited Member of the TCBL Association, whether it’s a large company, an SME or startup, a social enterprise, a research centre, or a community lab.
Why Join TCBL as an Accredited Member
Get access to valuable members-only services:
Regular updates on funding opportunities, project ideas and partnerships for the textile and clothing industry, with a specific eye on EU instruments such as Horizon Europe, Erasmus, Interreg, etc.
Online expert panels brought together to discuss questions raised by Accredited Members on a specific topic: recycling, AI, biobased textiles, etc.
Our online networking format mixes 5-7 Accredited Members in sequence giving a 5’ pitch, followed by an open discussion of collaboration opportunities.
Organised on demand, these targeted online sessions introduce a group of Accredited Members from one region to potential business or research partners in other regions.
All individual accounts associated with an Accredited Member gain access to TCBL Channels, an exclusive workspace environment in Slack™. Here, a series of thematic and one-on-one or collaborative working areas are set up to collaboratively develop funding proposals, follow up on business contacts, further explore topics of interest, and so forth.
Which type of Accredited Member fits your organisation?
Social or for-profit enterprises whose main activity is to deliver products and services all along the T&C value chain. Start-ups founded less than 5 years from application to the TCBL Association are welcomed at a reduced rate. Role in TCBL: join like-minded businesses in building an alternative fashion system through collaborative initiatives up and down the supply chain, with smaller or larger companies, and be inspired by the work of TCBL Labs to demonstrate business viability.
Structures that explore technical and social innovation of any kind, with the aim of making the textile and clothing industry more sustainable. They develop prototypes in sync with their areas of innovation. Role in TCBL: collaborate with other labs in networked research projects and work together with TCBL Businesses to test ideas or technologies that would facilitate their transition and promote the uptake of sustainable change.
Companies (or consortia) that offer IT or web-based digital services with functionalities that support a sustainable textile and clothing industry. Role in TCBL: Develop and test innovative online services with lead user Labs and Businesses, offering priority access to members.
Questions on your role and how you might best fit into the association? Email us at info@tcbl.eu - we’d be happy to have a chat.
When you join the TCBL Community, we will likely contact you to see if you are also interested in effective membership of the Association. If you are already part of the Community and wish to upgrade your participation to become a TCBL Accredited Member, all you have to do is send an email to info@tcbl.eu specifying your name and the name of your organization.
Once you've expressed your interest in joining, you'll be assigned to a TCBL Mentor who will help you complete your directory profile and sign the relevant documents, and submit your application to the Management Board for final approval.
Accredited Members - Labs, Businesses, and Service Platforms - are effective members of the TCBL Association, and their representatives are invited to attend the yearly General Meeting, vote to nominate the members of the Management Board, and participate in the strategic direction of the Association as a whole.
Read the section above about “Membership types” to determine where you and your organisation might fit.
The annual fees below are effective as of January 1, 2025.
| Membership fees |
Community Member |
Students | Businesses | Labs | Service Platforms |
|
Yearly Membership fee * |
INCLUDED |
€25 contribution |
€300 ** |
€75 | €75 |
|
One-time Onboarding administrative fee |
Only for accredited members |
Only for accredited members | €100 | €100 | €100 |
| TCBL Channels |
Only for accredited members |
INCLUDED | INCLUDED | INCLUDED | INCLUDED |
* due starting the year after joining
** discounted to €200 for startups (<5 years), social enterprises, B-corps, and non-profits, and to €100 for individual businesses.