Selected for SoTecIn Factory
It Goes Forward is selected to participate in the SoTecIn Factory Programme.
By Carl van Heijst
It Goes Forward has been selected to join the SoTecIn Factory Programme, a European initiative supporting social and technological innovation. The programme helps us scale Forwarding across European markets.
SoTecIn Factory runs under EU Horizon Europe and focuses on social innovators working on circular and sustainable textiles. Selection comes with non-dilutive funding, expert mentoring, and access to a European cohort of companies tackling the same problem from different angles. The €110K we received through the programme is part of the €570K in non-dilutive grant funding we have raised to date.
Forwarding fits the SoTecIn mandate almost literally: every rerouted return avoids a warehouse round-trip, cuts roughly 310 g of CO₂, and keeps the item in circulation at full or near-full value.