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IVGT: AddTex final meeting in Terrassa

From 25 to 26 June 2025, the final meeting of the ERASMUS+ project AddTex took place in Terrassa, Spain, which aimed to train workers, pupils and students in the textile industry. Over a period of three years, eleven partners from Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic and the IVGT association for Germany were involved in the project.
Final event – group photo with participants. On 26 June 2025, the final event took place in Terrassa under the motto ‘Textile Talent & Innovation’ with highlights from the AddTex and xBuild-EU projects. © 2025 IVGT
Final event – group photo with participants. On 26 June 2025, the final event took place in Terrassa under the motto ‘Textile Talent & Innovation’ with highlights from the AddTex and xBuild-EU projects. © 2025 IVGT


Europe's textile industry is becoming more digital and sustainable

With hackathons, virtual internships and 45 freely accessible MOOCs, AddTex set new standards in training and further education in the textile industry. The online platform www.addtex.eu provides professionals with the latest insights into green, digital and smart textiles – in a practical and free format.

AddTex.eu online platform

All the project goals were achieved. The partners developed innovative formats such as summer schools, back-to-school programmes, coaching services and masterclasses. The 45 massive open online courses (MOOCs) on the AddTex.eu platform offer explanatory videos and learning materials as downloadable PDFs, each tailored to the three main target groups: technicians, engineers and managers.

A highlight of the closing event on 26 June 2025, which was jointly organised by AddTex and the EU project xBUILD-EU under the motto ‘Textile Talent & Innovation: Driving Tomorrow's Industry’, was the interactive session ‘New Generations in the Labour Market’, including the speed dating event ‘Talent meets Industry’. The event brought together companies, students and experts for an intensive exchange and networking day in Terrassa.

The AddTex.eu platform will be continuously developed over the next five years by the IVGT Technical Textiles Department together with the project partners in order to provide up-to-date content and act as a point of contact for industry and universities. In addition to instructions for creating your own MOOCs, hackathons and webinars, new soft skills and formats such as back-to-school programmes and solution-oriented consulting have been developed and implemented by project hubs.

Final meeting in Terrassa – group photo with partners: All goals of the AddTex project have been achieved! © 2025 IVGT
Final meeting in Terrassa – group photo with partners: All goals of the AddTex project have been achieved! © 2025 IVGT


A collaboration with the Chair of Textile Technology at Chemnitz University of Technology and the Texoversum Experts & Training Hub in Reutlingen is currently planned to supplement the project results. In addition to the three EU priority areas of ‘Green – Digital – Smart’, the focus is also on textile recycling and digitisation and AI topics in order to provide IVGT members with targeted information, training materials and network contacts.

The IVGT was most recently responsible for work package 5, ‘Qualification of the textile industry through ADDTEX hubs for green-digital-smart,’ as well as for the creation of an application manual and a business plan to ensure that the project content is updated for at least five years after the end of the project. The relevant documents are available for download as PDF files at //ivgt.info/addtex/(https://ivgt.info/addtex/), where you will also find links to videos on YouTube and to the project page on LinkedIn.

https://ivgt.info/addtex/

Images: IVGT/AddTex

Discussions on stage were part of the Addtex project. © 2025 IVGT
Discussions on stage were part of the Addtex project. © 2025 IVGT




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