During the 5th edition of Cosm’Innov, the international cosmetics research congress held in Orléans on 24 and 25 May 2023, the Cosmetic Valley gathered its European partners for the official launch of the programme it coordinates, ACTT4Cosmetics - Improve Interconnected innovation ecosystems supporting Actions for Citizen awareness and Twin Transition in the entire cosmetic value chain.
ACTT4Cosmetics has the dual objective of strengthening collaboration between European innovation ecosystems in the field of cosmetics and fostering the deployment of collaborative innovation between its stakeholders (public and private) in order to meet the major challenges of the industry as well as of local and European policies.
This programme is supported by a consortium of seven partners to develop the project actions:
• Région Centre Val-de-Loire
• Dev’up Centre-Val de Loire
• REI-Reindustria Innovazione (Italy)
• Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
• AEBB (Portugal)
• HPRD - Health Products Research And Development Lda (Portugal)
• University of LifeScience in Lublin (Poland)
And two associated partners who will also participate:
• Perfumery and Cosmetic Association of Ukraine (Ukraine)
• North West Region Economic Development Agency (Romania)
Over the next five years and with a budget of €3.6 million co-funded by the European Union as part of the Horizon Europe programme, the ACTT4Cosmetics partners will propose a programme of joint actions based on European working groups to develop 14 innovative solutions to the main local and European challenges for the green and digital transitions, as well as on the consumer and citizen awareness component.
