An extra week to join the WeMed Award 2022, an initiative organised by Medwaves, the United Nations Environment Programme Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and TEXFOR – Textile Industry Confederation. Applicants will be able to apply until 23rd October, giving the possibility to young green ventures in the textile and clothing sector active in the Mediterranean area to submit their sustainable as well as innovative business projects.

The WeMed Mediterranean Sustainability Award is one of the first awards aiming to recognize an inclusive transition to sustainability in the Mediterranean. The regions of the Northern and Southern Mediterranean face an array of environmental and social challenges. Luckily, there are many SMEs adopting environmental and social innovations in their business models that tackle these challenges.

In this second edition, the award will recognize success stories of sustainable businesses in the textile, clothing and fashion sector. WeMed Award 2022 is funded by the European Union through the ENI CBC Med Programme in the framework of the STAND Up! project and SwitchMed Programme.

The award seeks to identify textile, clothing and fashion entrepreneurs and start-ups with innovative business models and a defined business plan within the following categories:

– Northern Mediterranean countries: eligible areas of ENI CBC Med in Europe.
– Southern Mediterranean: eligible areas of ENI CBC Med in Maghreb & MashrekThe sustainable business models award recognizes projects that are in their “early” and “growth stage” scalable eco-innovative ventures led by women (no age limit) and/or youth (up to 35 years old).