About
Create Project
CREATE receives 12 million Danish Kroner grant (equivalent to 17 Crore BDT) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (DANIDA) which Associate Professor Mohammad B. Rana from Aalborg University Business School, Denmark, leads that collaborates with Copenhagen Business School, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (as local coordinator), Dhaka University, Institute of Business Administration (DU), Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), Danish Fashion and Textile (DM&T), Global Fashion Agenda Copenhagen, Access2Innovation Denmark, SOAS University of London, Manchester Fashion Institute and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Ethical Trading Initiative, UK.
Recent
Activities
Policy Workshop- Towards a Circular Economy in Bangladesh’s Apparel Value Chains: The Context, Dynamics, Challenges, and Policy Gaps
On 13th February 2025, the CREATE project organized a workshop in Bangladesh, funded by DANIDA, on the transition to a…
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Academic Workshop on ‘Circular Economy in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry’, Organized at Aalborg University Business school.
On May 24, 2024, CREATE Project, in collaboration with the Sustainability Lab at Aalborg University Business School (AAUBS), has organized…
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Publications
Color Without Compromise in Textile-Waste Recycling: Simco’s Innovation Story
Bangladesh’s apparel sector produces vast amounts of textile and garment waste each year, presenting a unique opportunity for innovation in…
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‘Pre-Consumer Textile Waste Recycling with No GHG Emission’
This is Baliadanghi in Thakurgaon district, a small village in the northern edges of Bangladesh. There are around 20 or so cottage factories in this village, where people of both genders from all walks of life stand and work with pit looms in their own houses, making doormats using textile waste. Day in and day out, they juggle their time between loom work and household chores, maintaining their livelihoods and their responsibilities to their families.
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