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The faculty of educational sciences of the University of Helsinki has received a significant consortium grant from the European Union (EU) under the Horizon Europe framework programme for Colour for Combining Re-engineering, Applying, Futuring, Transforming, Stretching! (Colour4Crafts). Combining cultural tradition of dyes and textile dyeing with the development of novel dyeing techniques and bio-based dyes, this is a multidisciplinary project.
Research and development businesses are joining forces with research groups from a range of fields, in the Colour4Crafts project, to produce new information on the use of dyes and pigments in historical times as well as new high-tech applications for bio-based dyes, said the University of Helsinki on its website.
Riikka Raisanen, professor of craft science and craft pedagogy and head of Colour4Crafts, said: “In this multidisciplinary project, history is our starting point. We want to see what we can learn from the past, while at the same time we aim to innovate new, increasingly green ways of producing dyes and using them in ways that do not pollute and consume resources as little as possible. It is important to dream and, at the same time, stretch our notion of the world, which is why the words ‘futuring’ and ‘stretching’ were also included in the project title.”
Also involved in the Colour4Crafts project are the faculty of science as well as several international operators and partner universities. The University of Helsinki’s share of the € 4 million project funding is € 1,675,090, which is divided between two faculties.
