CREATE

Circular Economy in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry

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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.

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Activities

Global Stakeholder Meeting of ‘Circular Economy in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry’ (CREATE) Project, funded by DANIDA.

June 19, 2023

  2nd Global stakeholders’ meeting of CREATE project was held on Tuesday, June 3, 2023, presided over by project leader Dr.…

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Circular Economy (CREATE) in Apparel Industry Kicked-Off in the Air

October 26, 2022

The official opening ceremony of the “Circular Economy in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry (CREATE)” project was held on the 6th October 2022 from…

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Recent

Publications

Rana, M. B., Allen, M., & Tajuddin, S. A. (2025). “Global Value Chains and Transnational Social Spaces and Communities: The Emergence of a Circular Economy in the Apparel Industry”, In Reinterpreting Multinational Enterprises through a Revitalized Transnational Social Space Perspective, by Mike Geppert, Ödül Bozkurt, Christoph Dörrenbächer. Vol. 101, Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Publishing, UK.

April 9, 2026

It is published in the journal : Emerald Publishing, UK. LINK of Publisher: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20260000101006 For Free Download: https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/780046692/Rana_et_al_Final_Submission_2025.pdf

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Rana, M. B., & Whitfield, L. (2024). “Challenges in apparel’s circular economy transition in Bangladesh”, Working paper, Aalborg University, Denmark.

April 9, 2026

LINK for citation at source: Aalborg University, Denmark: https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/768139769/Rana_and_Whitfield_2024_CE_Challenges_in_Bangaldesh.pdf

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