Win-Win Textiles work with the Municipality of Guimarães
Our home town, Guimarães, is one of the 5 selected cities in the DISTENDER project
Win-Win Textiles participate in several EU projects together with the Municipality of Guimarães, local businesses, professionals, scientists and citizens of Guimarães to advocate for change.
DISTENDER is an EU funded project establishing a new common ground for scientists and policymaker by developping actionable strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation processes. Participatory approaches will be applied to 5 core case studies across the EU to guarantee that the strategies will respond to fit local climate impacts and risks. 6 additional follower cities will be first in line to replicate the methodologies developped.
This inititive hopes to lead us into a new era of equilibrium for climate change.
Our home town, Guimarães is one of the five selected cities and Win-Win Textiles participate at workshop under the project , where we work to develop solutions together with other local participants.
See more information here.
The EU URBACT project is an initiative to help cities develop an integrated set of actions for sustainable change. Under URBACT our home town Guimarães has launched the LET’S GO CIRCULAR project and Win-Win Textiles participate in the textiles working group. We work together with other businesses on creating circular models to turn residues into valuable resources.
Read more about URBACT here.
Guimarães 2030 event in June 2024, where the Win-Win Team participated and Lars is in the centre of the photo.
EU Mission: Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities is an EU initiative, where the EU has selected 100 cities to work for climate neutrality by 2030. Our home town, Guimarães, is one of the selected cities and created The Climate Pact, which participants in the local initiative will sign. Win-Win Textiles has signed the Climate Pact and is part of the Guimarães 2030 initiative.
We work with other businesses, scientists and citizens in workshops to invent solutions and find new ways to reduce our negative climate impact. Guimarães is a city with a rare commitment and the municipality has managed to create a very healthy collaboration between the civic society, the private and public sectors.
See more about Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities here and see more about Guimarães 2030 here. Our profile on the Guimaräes 2030 site is here.
EU Green Capital 2026 is an EU award Guimarães seeks to achieve. It has been announced in July 2024 that Guimarães is among the 3 finalists together with Heilbronn in Germany and Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in Austria. This is a prize for cities above 100,000 inhabitants based on an evaluation of achievements relating to Air Quality, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaption, Noise Pollution, Water Management, Biodiversity, Green Areas, & Sustainable Land Use, and Waste & Circular Economy. We are honoured to be part of the city’s efforts in the green transition.
Read more here.