TCBL HANDBOOKS
DISCOVERING TCBL
TCBL 646133 –ANNEX I TO D6.8 31st March 2018
INTRODUCTION This guidebook presents a general overview of the web environments run and operated by the TCBL community, starting with the main TCBL website itself. TCBL aims to be a global movement made up of different communities with distinct and specific roles: • • • •
Innovators in Business Labs, T&C businesses as Associate Enterprises, Consultants and researchers as Associate Advisors, and New businesses participating in the Startups programme.
Consequently, there are specific websites or web services for each group.1 This guidebook is therefore structured to present the resources available for these different types of audience. We can summarize the main sections as follows: You are
TCBL offers you
Key benefits
Entry point
Interested in TCBL
TCBL Home • Ecosystem • Events • Conference
Overview of what’s happening in the community. Events that bring the community together.
Main website https://tcbl.eu/
An explorer
Labs platform to share research agendas and projects.
Interaction with other labs, machinery as a collective resource, collaboration spaces.
Labs platform https://labs.tcbl.eu/
A Textile & Clothing Business
On the main website: • Business Pilots • Business Services
Concrete actions and services addressing real needs, quick access to key resources.
Business Pilots https://tcbl.eu/business-pilots Business Services https://tcbl.eu/businessservices
An Advisor
The opportunity to work in innovation setting and share insights and knowledge gained.
Publication platform with a targeted audience, allowing to develop research fields and case studies.
TCBL_zine http://zine.tcbl.eu/
A Startup
An idea sharing environment supporting open innovation and collaborative design.
Access to a community of innovating businesses for testing service design and market viability.
WAVE platform https://oi.wave.consorzioarca.it/
These sections are illustrated with screenshots that are linked to the actual services of interest to the different types of user. Although TCBL offers this differentiation for the role-based communities, the strength of TCBL comes from the fact that they come together under the same umbrella and can be smoothly connected and used in a coherent experience. The resulting service integration is illustrated in the companion to this guide, TCBL in Action.2
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In addition, the TCBL community of Associate Service Providers works with TCBL through the technical interfacing of service platforms. Their needs and the services available to them are treated separately in forthcoming Deliverable 1.3 The TCBL Open Platform. 2
Available at: https://issuu.com/tcbl/docs/tcbl_in_action
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REGISTRATION AND A CCESS TCBL has a special facility – Single Sign On or SSO – that makes it easy to navigate between the different websites and services, unifying the management of your userid and password. You only have to register once, and then click Login with TCBL wherever you see it in the services mentioned in this guidebook. This facility holds your profile information in a secure place and allows you to directly manage what gets passed on to the different services. You can register with TCBL by choosing Sign up from any Login with TCBL service, or directly at https://tcblsso.ilabt.iminds.be/usermanager/user/register or by clicking on the image below:
Figure 1. Registration with TCBL.
Most of the images shown on the following pages do not require you to be logged in, but we suggest you sign up now to facilitate your navigation and experience TCBL to the full.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT All TCBL web environments are constantly being updated to meet evolving needs and requirements, and what you find represented in this Guidebook may have changed. Updates to this guidebook will be issued on a yearly basis to keep up with the evolving TCBL platform.
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As we develop our web services, we are also constantly working on providing user guides, manuals, and screencast tutorials (made by capturing navigation through a website on video). This material can all be found at: https://tcbl.eu/tcbl-platform-support
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1.
TCBL HOME
The main TCBL website is our shared home-space: the meeting place where all TCBL communities come together to share news and events and learn about each other. TCBL is in fact a global movement driven by a community of communities, all with different interests and methods, but all sharing a common goal: transform the Textile and Clothing industry into something radically more sustainable than it is today.
HOME PAGE The home page at https://tcbl.eu/ introduces you to a general presentation of TCBL goals, who it is for and why you should join the community.
Figure 2. The TCBL Home Page.
Scrolling down the home page, we can see general updates from across the different TCBL communities: news, events, forum posts, and the latest from Labs, Businesses and the Zine. More specifically: • • • • • •
Latest News gives updates from the News section Upcoming Events does the same from the Events Section From the forum lists recent discussions Labs shows the latest projects from the Business Labs Business Pilots links to information on on-going innovation cases TCBL_zine gives snapshots of recently published articles.
The home page also includes feeds from our main social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube and banners specific to important events such as the yearly #TCBL conferences, Calls for Associates, etc.
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TCBL ECOSYSTEM The first menu item in the TCBL website gives you general information about the TCBL ecosystem.
Figure 3. TCBL Ecosystem Menu.
This includes: • • • • • • •
About (shown) gives a brief introduction to TCBL as an EU project and innovation ecosystem. Values describes the seven TCBL principles at the heart of our value-based community. Why Join TCBL presents our value proposition and explains how to become part of the community. EU Project Partners lists and describes the 23 organisations making up the consortium funded by the Horizon 2020 programme. Associate Roles explains the four key roles for TCBL Associates. Directory provides a listing of the current participants for each of the four Associate roles. Press & Support Kit provides information for TCBL dissemination.
The following menu items – Labs and Business Pilots – will be better explained in sections 2 and 3 of this guidebook, respectively.
COMMUNITY The Community menu reaches out to everyone interested and engaged in TCBL activities, including and beyond the four types of TCBL Associates.
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Figure 4. The Community Menu.
The Community menu consists of the following sections: • • •
Forum is an open discussion space where any registered user (you have to be logged in) can post an article or comment on other posts. News includes updates on developments in the TCBL project activities as well as other news of interest to the community. Events provides information on local events by TCBL labs and partners and a selection of international events of interest, curated by the TCBL team.
The following menu item – Resources – is explained in detail in the following sections, with the exception of Reports to EU. This includes a series of links to the publicly available reports the TCBL project issues to the European Commission as part of its contractual obligations.
#TCBL CONFERENCE This menu points to the pages for each yearly edition of #TCBL, the annual conference event that brings the TCBL community together with a range of formats for interaction, discovery and learning.
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Figure 5. The #TCBL_2018 Conference page.
This page is structured as follows: • • •
An overview of the conference and venue, with a focus on the general theme of the year. The agenda for the two days. Speaker profiles for the more that 50 presentations.
Following the event, the page will provide access to the Powerpoint presentations and videos for each session.
PROFILE MANAGEMENT If you click on the profile icon or image next to your name to the upper right (assuming you have registered and are logged in), you will be taken to the TCBL User manager, where you can control different aspects of your account with TCBL Single Sign On (the system that allows you to “Login with TCBL”).
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Figure 6. The TCBL User Manager.
The first item, Sign up for TCBL, allows you to register with TCBL Single Sign On and from there access all the services in this Guidebook through the Login with TCBL function. Next is Manage your profile. The purpose of this section is to give you full control over your profile information and how it is managed by the other services describe in this Guidebook. By default, when you Login with TCBL only the minimum information is passed to the specific service. (This is why many services may ask for additional information when you register for the first time, even if you’ve used Login with TCBL.) Over time, this section will give you the option of passing on more detailed information to different services (for instance, your company name and address), as these options become available. For now, this section allows you to upload a profile photo and subscribe to the TCBL newsletter. In addition, you can view and accept the TCBL Privacy Policy. The other options in the User Manager allow you to reset your Password and view the different services you can directly access by the Login with TCBL function.
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2. ARE YOU AN EXPLORER? If you’re reading about TCBL you’re mostly likely interested in innovations affecting the Textile & Clothing sector, ranging from research into new materials to social initiatives such as sewing cafés. Whatever your activity, the TCBL Business Labs allow you to explore the latest developments and see what can be relevant to you. Above all, if you’re interested in becoming a TCBL Business Lab (or if you already are one), you’ll be interested in seeing what’s going on across the network.
THE LABS PLATFORM Your entry point will probably be through the Labs menu item on the TCBL website, but this takes you to the Labs Platform at https://labs.tcbl.eu/. This is a dedicated website specifically designed for the innovation and collaboration needs of the Business Labs. If you’re already logged in with TCBL, you’ll only need to confirm the exchange of data to sign up to the Labs Platform. Following that, you can smoothly switch between the two.
Figure 7. The Labs Platform Home Page.
The home page of the Labs platform gives a general introduction for innovation enthusiasts and/or textile or Business Lab managers. Lower panes link to a map of Labs around the world, an introductory video, and other pages on the website.
THE LABS MENU The Labs menu first points to a listing of all active TCBL labs, listed in alphabetical order with location, contact details, and a brief summary. 10
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Clicking on a lab name takes you to the Lab Profile page, with a complete overview.
Figure 8. The Lab Profile Page.
The other items under the Labs menu include: • • • •
Lab principles lists the common principles of operation that all labs adhere to (derived from the 7 TCBL principles) What is a lab? provides a short definition of the main types: design, make and place labs. Lab handbook links directly to the pdf file of the same name. Add a lab leads you to the application form to become a lab (you must be logged in to access this form).
Next is the Events Menu, which takes you to a page listing upcoming and past Lab events: workshops, seminars, etc. Clicking on the name of an event takes you to a detailed description including time and venue.
PROJECTS The Projects menu is the heart of the Labs Platform, since it gives a window onto on-going collaboration activities that are shared across several labs.
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Figure 9. The Lab Projects Page.
Each project snapshot leads to a full info page listing: • • • • • •
Description with a short overview of the project’s goals and method Images showing project activities and results Steps involved in the procedure Scope of the potential impact of the innovation Labs involved in collaboration Contributors directly engaged in the activities
MACHINES The final menu on the Labs platform shows different types of machinery that are available across the network of Business Labs. For each item of machinery, a specific page lists: • • • •
Name and description of the Machine Tags to help identify the type of machine Machine Revisions with updates, new versions, etc. Available at indicates the Business Labs where the machine is available
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3. ARE YOU A TEXTILE & CLOTHING BUSINESS? The main goal of TCBL is to have a radical impact on the T&C industry, and indeed the Associate Enterprises – T&C Businesses who have joined the network through the yearly Calls – are at the heart of the TCBL ecosystem. Everything mentioned in this guidebook will be relevant to the innovation needs of sector companies large and small, but we’d like to highlight three areas on the main TCBL website that should be of specific interest: Business Pilots, Business Services, and the Call for Associate Enterprises.
BUSINESS PILOTS This is one of the main menu headings on the TCBL website and describes the innovation pilots currently under way.
Figure 10. Business Pilot Projects Currently Underway.
Each pilot (or Business Case) also has a more detailed web page that includes: • • • •
Description and objectives What’s happened so far Next steps Contact info
BUSINESS SERVICES Business Services can be found under the Resources menu; this includes a range of commercial services that are offered by TCBL Associate Service Providers through the TCBL Open Platform. Each of these can be easily accessed with our Login with TCBL function.
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Figure 11. The Business Services Page.
The three services listed – Thela (supply chain management), Sqetch (brand-producer matchmaking) and Wave (open innovation for startups) – cover some of the main needs expressed by TCBL Associate Enterprises, and they play an active role in TCBL as follows: • • •
Thela is used to manage the Call for Associate Enterprises (see below): https://thela.cleviria.it/. Sqetch is used to organise business-to-business encounters at our yearly conferences (#TCBL_Meet): https://sqetch.co/. WAVE is used to manage the TCBL Call for Startups: http://wave.consorzioarca.it/.
Following these services is a listing of the external Associate Service Providers who are actively collaborating with TCBL, either through participation in TCBL events or more directly in the Business Pilots. Most of them plan to integrate the Single Sign On function for Login with TCBL in the coming months.
CALL FOR ASSOCIATE E NTERPRISES The Call for Associate Enterprises is a yearly procedure to bring new T&C businesses into the TCBL innovation ecosystem, that as of September 2018 will become a rolling procedure open throughout the year. The rationale, criteria, and application procedure are described in the final item of the Business Pilots menu. The Call itself is managed through a self-assessment questionnaire on the Thela platform. You must first register with TCBL and login to the main website, in order to access the registration page. When you submit the registration form, you are provided a special access
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(with the TCBL self-assessment questionnaire enabled) the next time you login to Thela using Login with TCBL,
Figure 12. The Call Registration Page.
Once completed, your assessment questionnaire is evaluated by a set of three TCBL Controllers, and if the scoring meets the required criteria, your company automatically qualifies to becomes a TCBL Associate Enterprise. New Associate Enterprises are announced yearly at the #TCBL event.
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4. ARE YOU AN ADVISOR? Associate Advisors play an important role in the TCBL ecosystem, as they provide the human connection between the open-ended research agendas of the TCBL Labs and the specific needs of TCBL Enterprises and the T&C industry. In parallel with their consultancy role, they also feed the TCBL knowledge base with publications, guidebooks and articles, as well as materials produced from presentations and activities at the yearly #TCBL events. If you are a researcher, business consultant, teacher, or in any way contributing to knowledge about T&C innovation, you can gain the status of Associate Advisor through a point system which tracks your contribution to the innovation processes in TCBL and the production of material that can spread and share the knowledge gained.
_ZINE PLATFORM The main space for access to the knowledge generated within TCBL is the _zine platform, which acts our on-line “publishing house”.
Figure 13. The _zine platform home page
The _zine platform is managed by an Editorial Board who define, together with the community of Associate Advisors the main thematic areas for publication as well as coordinating the production of Special Issues. The first four menu items – Digital, Human, Circular, Transparent – bring up _zine articles through their thematic pertinence. Following that is a menu to access individual _zine Issues. The menu heading About _zine includes: • • • •
Why TCBL_Zine? Presents the _zine platform. Roles and activities describes who does what. Editorial Board gives information and profiles of the Editorial Board members. Knowledge Champions profiles the 15 most active among the Associate Advisors.
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Associate Advisors gives the full listing of all 75 advisors. Become an Author describes the procedures for submitting an article. Special Issue Calls presents the invitations to contribute to Special Issues being edited.
The final menu item, About TCBL, takes you back to the home page of the main TCBL website.
TCBL ON SOCIAL MEDIA TCBL’s Associate Advisors are also constantly feeding our social media accounts. Updates from TCBL together with relevant links and articles from around the Web are regularly posted to the TCBL Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/projecttcbl. Like the page to add TCBL notifications to your Facebook feed. TCBL Guidebooks are published on the Issuu service for on-line publications at https://issuu.com/tcbl
Figure 14.TCBL publications on issuu.com.
Several “stacks” are available grouping publications by topic, and the most relevant and valuable publications are also embedded as articles on the _zine platform. TCBL videos, produced by Business Labs as well as by the yearly #TCBL conferences, are published to the TCBL channel on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZcpRQi7vjIxuq50a-8KOxA.
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Figure 15. Playlists on the TCBL YouTube channel.
Videos are grouped by playlists according to the different conference sessions, Labs or topics, and the most relevant and valuable videos are also embedded as articles on the _zine platform.
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5. ARE YOU A STARTUP? As TCBL is building innovative business models and value chains, this generates new service requirements that can be met by the TCBL Startup programme. During the TCBL project, two Calls for Startups have been carried out to launch this procedure, but the TCBL ecosystem aims to continue generating new business concepts that can prove fertile ground for young entrepreneurs. To this end, TCBL partner ARCA has developed and adapted the WAVE platform for idea generation following the open innovation model for sharing and collectively developing business ideas.
Figure 16. The WAVE platform.
If you access WAVE through Login with TCBL, you can publish your open innovation ideas in three ways: •
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A challenge is a competition where you can offer a prize for presenting the best solution to a problem. For instance, a TCBL Associate Enterprises can publish a Challenge call with the task description and the kind of awards assigned. You can share a project outline and look for partners, investors, skills and contributions for its further development. In a brainstorming context you can discuss a topic or look for a solution to a specific problem, with help from the WAVE community.
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DOCUMENT INFORMATION REVISION HISTORY This document is Annex II to TCBL Deliverable 6.8, “Technical Ecosystem Framework version 2”. Author: Jesse Marsh (Prato). REVISION Version 1 Version 2
DATE 09.04.2018 30.04.2018
AUTHOR Jesse Marsh Jesse Marsh
ORGANISATION
DESCRIPTION
Prato Prato
First draft for review Final draft with reviewers’ comments
STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.
COPYRIGHT This work is licensed by the TCBL Consortium under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, 2015-2016. For details, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The TCBL Consortium, consisting of: Municipality of Prato (PRATO) Italy; German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research - Center for Management Research (DITF) Germany; Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) Italy; Skillaware (SKILL) Italy; The Oxford Brookes University (OBU) UK; imec (IMEC) Belgium; Tavistock Institute (TAVI) UK; Materials Industrial Research & Technology Center S.A. (MIRTEC) Greece; Waag Society (WAAG) Netherlands; Huddersfield & District Textile Training Company Ltd (TCOE) UK; eZavod (eZAVOD) Slovenia; Consorzio Arca (ARCA) Italy; Unioncamere del Veneto (UCV) Italy; Hellenic Clothing Industry Association (HCIA) Greece; Sanjotec - Centro Empresarial e Tecnológico (SANJO) Portugal; Clear Communication Associates Ltd (CCA) UK, Reginnova NE (REGINNOVA), Romania; Centexbel (CTB), Belgium; Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), France; FabTextiles, (FABTEXTILES), Spain; Cleviria (CLEVIRIA), Italy; and Sqetch (SQETCH), Netherlands.
DISCLAIMER All information included in this document is subject to change without notice. The Members of the TCBL Consortium make no warranty of any kind with regard to this document, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Members of the TCBL Consortium shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The TCBL project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme for research, technology development, and innovation under Grant Agreement n.646133.
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