A group of teachers, graduate students, and students from the Department of Clothing Technology and Design (Oksana Zakharkevych, Yuliia Koshevko, Svitlana Kuleshova, Halyna Shvets, Liudmyla Bukhantsova, Olesya Ditkovska, Oksana Khasanova, Diana Khasanova, Vyacheslav Balabanov) attended the Kyiv Fashion International Fashion Festival, which took place on January 29-31, 2025, at the International Exhibition Center (Kyiv).
The purpose of the visit was to present the services of EDIH Clotex-HUB, the first Ukrainian digital hub to join the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) network EDIH.
Tetyana Izovit, President and Chairwoman of the Board of the Association of Light Industry Enterprises "Ukrlegprom," familiarized herself in detail with the activities of EDIH Clotex-HUB, which aims to increase the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises' clothing products by digitizing clothing production and introducing innovative technologies to ensure that products enter the European market, thus integrating into international value chains for products and services.
The exhibition also featured a workshop consisting of several parts.
General introductory part. "Clotex–HUB – a new level of innovation for the garment business"
Speaker – Head of EDIH Clotex-HUB Oksana Zakharkevych, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Technology and Design of Garments, Head of the Research Department of Khmelnytskyi National University.
Block 1. Professional development in the fashion industry
Speaker: Halyna Shvets, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Technology and Design of Garments, Cluster Manager of the Podilsk Fashion Cluster.
Block 2. Effective search for investments
Speaker: Liudmyla Bukhantsova, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Technology and Design of Garments, Project Manager, Expert on Sustainable Development of the Fashion Industry.
The first block presents a successful case study of the Fashion Training Centre (personnel training and retraining) for the light industry. The second block presents successful examples of securing grant funding for the garment business.
Kyiv Fashion is the largest international exhibition project with a long history of success, preserving the best exhibition traditions. This event is the most authoritative forum in the Ukrainian fashion industry. The fashion festival brings together a full range of specialised exhibitions of the light and textile industries within a single forum, creating the most favourable conditions for covering multiple market segments simultaneously.
Results of the project team's participation: more than 40 workshop participants, 10 interested contacts representing SMEs, 1 interview, 3 completed questionnaires (assessment of the level of digital maturity of enterprises), a certificate of participation in the International Exhibition, support of academic contacts with representatives of higher education institutions in the light industry and fashion industry, and, of course, useful experience.
Let’s grow and be successful together!
This is what the organisers want, and we look forward to new invitations and opportunities to meet again with representatives of the garment business and to share the latest news from the world of modern technologies.
EDIH Clotex-HUB is co-financed by the European Union through the Digital Europe Program under grant agreement No. 101191415. The information and views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Neither the institutions and bodies of the European Union nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use of the information contained therein.