DigitalFashion project tackled knowledge in a highly competitive domain, namely software for virtual prototyping of clothing. DigitalFashion provided educational materials in this domain destined to Higher Education students and young professionals from the industry. The project had 3 specific objectives, fully met: Objective 1: Introducing new teaching and learning methodology of digital fashion towards the academic community. Indicators: 50 teachers and 150 students prepared. Objective 2: Digitization of the fashion and textile work in partner countries targeting the textile and clothing industry. Indicators: One e-learning platform with digital educational resources. Objective 3: Promoting internationalization of the digital skills in fashion and textile technology Indicators: Involving 270 stakeholders in online international learning. During three years implementation period of DigitalFashion (2022-2025), the project partners created the educational materials and the e-learning resources (first two years) and organized Multiplier events (third year) for teaching & multiplying the achieved outcomes. All initial objectives could be met and specific indicators exceeded with 426 professionals involved and 2 platforms created.
Increasing market competitiveness means high value added products and reduced costs, as basic pillars of Industry 4.0 that includes digitization. Software for virtual prototyping of clothing speeds up both manufacturing process and product performances, which implies upgrading of knowledge for students and professionals, for academia and industry. The DigitalFashion project created educational materials and implemented training events that contributed to substantial competitiveness advantages for HEI students and young professionals of the partner countries. Implementing software for virtual prototyping of clothing renders much more attractive opportunities for this target group within the world-of-work. DigitalFashion is inline the SRIA 2022 strategy of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (Textile ETP: https://textile-platform.eu/), according to digitization plays a key role of the future European textile industry.