Introduction

The ECHT project began with the development of a Traceability Strategy, marking the first step for the consortium to define the project's contributions. Creating a traceability strategy required a clear vision of the desired future state and the influencing factors involved. The apparel and carpet flooring ecosystems, with their diverse components, complicate the understanding of which factors impact the system, both in the short and long term, and which actors in the value chain need to contribute to behavioural changes.

Ultimately, the inputs of the consortium were merged coherently to result into the “Theory of Change”.

The complete and detailed process is presented in the following documents.