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The Hackathon

Link industry and student’s thorough innovation and design, focused on sustainability and digitalisation challenges is one of the main objectives of the Hackathons that will be organised in a hybrid format in: #UBORAS #UPC #PIN #TUS
The word “hackathon” comes from the words “hack” and “marathon”. The word “hack” is used in the sense of playful and exploratory programming.

Hacking is creative problem solving, but it does not have to involve technology. A hackathon is an event where people come together to solve problems.The challenges/problems that will be launched in the ADDTEX project Hackathon address real case studies and challenges from the advanced textiles’ manufacturing industry.

Students are challenged to address industrial challenges using creative and industrial design methodologies.

Experts

IVGT

Stefan Schmidt

Bio

Stefan Schmidt

Stefan Schmidt, IVGT, is a textile professional through and through and has been active in the market for innovative textiles and technologies for over three decades. With his broad knowledge of spinning, weaving, nonwovens, knitting and finishing, he has also specialized in electroconductive textile products, focusing on research, development and production of tailor-made applications. Since 2012, Stefan has been Head of Department at the Association for Finishing, Yarns, Fabrics and Technical Textiles (IVGT) and in this role works for IVGT members, particularly in the areas of natural fibres as well as polymers, circular systems, sustainability and standardization.

Stefan has extensive expertise in the textile sector, especially in the areas of industrial, protective and intelligent textiles and is well connected with international companies, organizations and associations as well as research institutes for textiles, material sciences and also business administration.

His areas of experience are: Natural fibers and high-strength polymers. Electroconductive yarns, fabrics and textile screen and inkjet printing systems. National and European research projects. Dry and wet textile processing. Product development and product management. Quality management and EFQM auditing.

Stefan Schmidt has worked abroad for many years, in particular as a trainer for textile processing and as a restructuring and optimization manager with budget and personnel responsibility for more than 120 employees.

stefan.schmidt@ivgt.de

IVGT

Alfred Virnich

Bio

Alfred Virnich

Dr Alfred Virnich has a doctorate in chemistry and specialises in environmental consulting. Today, he is the contact person for the CO2 footprint calculation of companies at the Industrial Association for Finishing, Yarns, Fabrics and Technical Textiles. He studied at the RWTH Aachen University, where he wrote his diploma thesis on “Changes in chemical and physical properties during the dyeing of wool”. He completed his doctorate with a dissertation on the post-chromisation dyeing of wool.
His professional career began with a focus on the textile industry and later centred specifically on technical textiles. He was responsible for research in various companies and was particularly involved in the environmental sector. He has been a publicly appointed and sworn expert for the fields of “textile technology” and “textile chemistry” at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for almost 25 years. He also speaks five languages.
alfred.virnich@ivgt.de

PTC/CITEVE

Alexandra Cardoso

Bio

Alexandra Cardoso

With a specialisation in Management Studies and a degree in Psychopedagogy, she works as a project manager. She has worked in the areas of education and training, innovation, entrepreneurship and gender equality since 2004. She started out in the social and pedagogical field, coordinating work teams and training projects. She has been working in the textile and clothing sector for 12 years as a researcher specialising in Diagnosis of Training Needs. She has actively participated in the development of innovative teaching resources, new qualification profiles and active learning methodologies. She has deepened her knowledge of adult training and the recognition of competences. She has extensive experience in the elaboration of national and European applications in the field of education and training. With 20 years of professional experience, she is also a trainer in the areas of Behaviour, Entrepreneurship and Gender Equality. She is a manager and researcher on national and European projects and has experience in recruitment and selection processes, psycho-pedagogical support and vocational.

guidance.acardoso@citeve.pt

PTC/CITEVE

Maria José Carvalho

Bio

Maria José Carvalho

With a degree in textile engineering and more than 30 years of experience in the textile and clothing sector. Senior project manager at the Portuguese Textile Cluster, since 2021. Between 1994 and 2019 worked in CITEVE – Technology Centre, developing activities related with consulting, training and R&D+I, at national and international levels. From 2018 to 2019, was responsible for the development of the sustainability and circular economy agenda, for the textile and clothing sector and has the technical responsibility on the iTechStyle Green Circle – sustainability showcase initiative. From January 2020 to February 2021 joined CITEVE CERTIFICAÇÃO company, a certification body of CE mark, GOTS and TE labels, as the Company Manager. The previous experience included issues related with environmental aspects, namely resources consumption and pollution in the textile sector, BAT implementation, life cycle assessment (LCA) studies, implementation of sustainability strategies in textile and clothing industries, REACH, CLP and BPR Regulations specialist and also lead auditor of STeP by OEKO-TEX® certification. She is also expert in several working groups, such as the European Technical Group for the review of BREF Textile, the manufacturing and extractive industry thematic group of the Portuguese coalition for green growth, the European initiative REGIOTEX, the Green Textile Club coordination group of the Portuguese Textile Cluster and EU green public procurement Technical Group for textiles products and services.

mjcarvalho@citeve.pt

TUS

John Cosgrove

Bio

John Cosgrove

Holds the post of Section Head (Electrical) and founder and Director of the IDEAM Research Institute at TUS. John is a lead researcher in Intelligent Systems and Digitalisation of Manufacturing and has been with the Institute since 1998. John’s Doctorate in Engineering (2028) was awarded for his work on Data Analytics for Energy Management in Industry in March 2018. John has led and/or collaborated on competitive project funding of over €60m with over €20m awarded to TUS. John is a Director of the FactoryxChange EDIH, the Smarter Factory Technology Gateway, the AEPIC Project, the IDEAM Industry Project, the DigiWIND Project and was co-ordinator of a large multi-partner project (TEMPO 2011-2015). In Academic terms, John has contributed to 45+ international conference /journal publications and has supervised 25 postgraduate dissertations, many in collaboration with Industry. In addition, he works with the European Commission as an Expert Reviewer and Evaluator in a range of EU Research Programme, including Horizon Europe, H2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, ECSEL JU and the Factories of the Future PPP.   
John.Cosgrove@tus.ie
TUS

Rebecca Marsden

Bio

Rebecca Marsden

Rebecca is the Manager at the FORGE Design Factory – A joint initiative led by LSAD TUS and University of Limerick , collaborating with Industry and Local Authorities to build a Design Ecosystem in the Midlands and Midwest of Ireland.

Rebecca is a Royal College of Art, Fashion graduate specialising in womenswear Knitwear. She was selected for the 2019 Santoni Pioneer Program in Shanghai where she developed performance activewear with circular and seamless knitting technology and was a finalist in the Woolmark Company Performance Challenge. In recent years Rebecca has worked in an educational capacity, lecturing in Textiles, Fashion and Design, Interdisciplinary Design and Design for Sustainability and Circular Economies at LSAD TUS Her educational focus extends to primary school and second level education through CRAFTed and DESIGNed and CPD programmes as an education panel member with the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland. Rebecca is a member of the Wool Hub Panel and an Education & Outreach working group member of the Irish Grown Wool Council.

Rebecca.Marsden@tus.ie

TUS

Camila Bibiano

Bio

Camila Bibiano

IDEAM Research Project Coordinator. Senior scientist with more than six years of experience in applied agrotechnology research, statistical analysis and data modelling. Experience on management of international and European projects related to supporting innovation in industry mainly Textile and Advanced Manufacturing sectors. She has led an Innovation Partnership Project for Research & Development plus policy consultation for placement of new sustainable products on the market in collaboration with Industry. She works as a support scientist and consultant on feasibility projects with beverage and food industry on R&D of novel bio compounds, processes related to biosciences and biotechnology. She has achieved a PhD in agrotechnology of medicinal plants and ecotoxicology in 2019 and has a background in business management and entrepreneurship.
Camila.Bibiano@tus.ie
 

TUS

Evan Quinn

Bio

Evan Quinn

Evan Quinn is a Computer Vision Researcher and part of the Computing and Informatics Research (CaIR) Group at Ireland’s Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS). In 2020, he received his B.Sc. in Software Development from Limerick Institute of Technology. He is working on real-time computer vision applications for analysing and tracking video samples from various combat sports. Real-time human action recognition, real-time object detection and tracking, and data analytics are among his primary research areas.
evan.quinn@tus.ie

CLUTEX

Jana Drašarová

Bio

Jana Drašarová

With a degree in textile engineering and more than 30 years of experience in science and research in the textile sector. She has been working as an assistant professor and researcher at the Faculty of Textile Engineering of the Textile University of Liberec (FT TUL) since 1998, focusing on textile materials and technologies. She specializes in high functional materials, the development of innovative textile structures and their use in design. She also teaches and supervises bachelor’s and diploma theses in this area. She actively participated in the development of innovative teaching materials. She currently deals with aspects of sustainable production and consumption of textile and clothing. She has 20 years of experience in university and faculty management, where she held the following position: vice-rector for science and research at the Technical University of Liberec (TUL), dean of the Faculty of Textile Engineering at TUL. She currently works in the position of vice dean for R&D at this faculty. She has extensive experience in processing and solving national and European projects in the field of R&D and education.
jana.drasarova@tul.cz

CLUTEX

Ivana Ptáčková

Bio

Ivana Ptáčková

A graduate of textile engineering and a graduate of economy, she works as an analyst, project manager. Since 2006, he has been working in the field of strategic planning focused on sustainable development, R&D, business support, specializing in SMEs. She actively participated in the preparation and implementation of smart specialization strategies and the support of green transformation and low-carbon economy activities. He has experience in the preparation, support and implementation of R&D projects and business support projects.


ptackova.cibi@gmail.com

CIAPE

Cassandra Menga

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Cassandra Menga

Digital Expert and Google Partner with over 10 years of experience in strategic communication and digital marketing for for-profit brands including Eataly, Remax, LeoStudioDesign, Prestitalia, Roboze, 3Store. In recent years she has started collaborations in European projects with national and international bodies and is currently a consultant, facilitator and trainer for Ciape. She teaches social media marketing, digital storytelling, online communication strategy, content marketing and search advertising with Google Ads.

cassandra@ciape.it

CIAPE

Desiree Scalia

Bio

Desiree Scalia

Bachelor’s degree in European Economics and Master’s degree in International Relations (University of Milan). MBA in Global Business and Sustainability (ALTIS – Graduate School Business & Society – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan) with specialization in entrepreneurship. Active in the field of national, European and international design for 15 years. She has worked as an external consultant to support the management of projects and related activities (communication and reporting) for various public and private bodies such as: Municipality of Milan – Social Policies Department; Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster; CNA Turin. She has been collaborating with CIAPE for 10 years, dealing with business development and project management related to youth engagement, entrepreneurship, circular economy and the manufacturing sector. She currently provides entrepreneurship courses for the ITS Green Foundation and is certified as a LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator.

desiree@ciape.it

PIN

Emanuele Cecchi

Bio

Emanuele Cecchi

Emanuele Cecchi’s career started along family’s footsteps working at Tintoria Bernocchi in Prato district right after the industrial expert and chief technician specializing in textiles degree at I.T.S. Tullio Buzzi. After a succesfull experience were he reached top manager level, he decided to measure with international realities working abroad in come of the main countries for textile production like India and Egypt, Turkey and many more.

e.cecchi@smartextiles.it
PIN

Renato Stasi

Bio

Renato Stasi

Renato Stasi teaches at the School of Design of the DIDA Department of Architecture – UNIFI, where he is delegate for relations with companies in the fashion sector, for the three-year degree course in Textile and Fashion Design and for the Master’s degree course in Fashion System Design. He is a lecturer in fashion design for the three-year degree course at IED Florence and for the Master in Fashion Design IED Milan, at the Fashion Communication – Moodart school in Verona. He is a lecturer for the Interdepartmental Master’s Course in Fashion Management at Sapienza University of Rome – Faculty of Letters and Philosophy – Department of Management.

renato.stasi@unifi.it

PIN

Silvia Gambi

Bio

Silvia Gambi

Silvia Gambi is a journalist and founder of the Solo Moda Sostenibile platform. An expert in textiles and circular economy, she works as a consultant and teaches in Academies and Universities

 

PIN

Morea Claudia

Bio

Morea Claudia

Claudia Morea, architect and PhD in Design, qualified in Life Cycle Assessment and ecodesign. She is currently a lecturer of the course Sustainability in Textiles and Fashion Product at the Textile and Fashion Design Bachelor (Unifi), and a researcher for the Service
Design Lab (Unifi). Her research activity focuses on the digital and green transition of the textile and fashion industry, she works on circularity and traceability strategies for the supply chain and product, and furthermore on consumer engagement. She also held ecodesign consulting and training.

TUS

James Drew

Bio

James Drew

James is the founder of Drew Aerospace, a micro satellite company. He has worked for many of the world’s biggest companies as both a business consultant and engineer. His background is in software engineering for enterprise and finance, and his research interests are in robotics, automation and digitalisation of manufacturing.

James.Drew@tus.ie

AEI Tèxtils

Marta Casadesús

Bio

Marta Casadesús

PhD in Textile Engineering (specialised in sustainable composite materials), Master’s degree in Textile Engineering and Diploma in Chemical Engineering by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She is involved in several European projects and has also exeperience in lecturing, as a freelance consultant, as a researcher and as a technician in varius textiles companies. Now she is currently working as a Project Manager at AEI Tèxtils since June 2020. their main focus areas are research, circular economy, biomaterials and sustainability in the textile sector. mcasadesus@textils.cat
AEI Tèxtils

Oxana Dabrock

Bio

Oxana Dabrock

Oxana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Textile Engineering (BSc.) from the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein in Germany, and another Bachelor’s degree in International Law and Legal Studies (LL. B) from the University of the State of Moldova. Her main area of expertise is improving the weaving manufacturing process and doing testing and calculations related to textile production. She has experience working with different types of textiles like filtration media and composites, smart textiles, and sustainable textiles and she’s also skilled in predicting textile trends. Currently, she is involved in several projects funded and co-funded by the EU as a coordinator and also as project partner. She has managed both public and private projects in the technical textiles industry, focusing on research and development. Oxana has been part of the AEI Tèxtils Catalan Cluster for the Advanced Textile Materials team as a project manager for innovation since June 2023.
odabrock@textils.cat

INCDTP

Aileni Raluca Maria

Bio

Aileni Raluca Maria

Dr. Eng. Raluca Maria Aileni is a Scientific Researcher 2nd Degree, Project Manager and Head of the Research Department in Materials Engineering and Textile Processes of INCDTP. She holds two Bachelor’s Degrees in Textile Engineering and Computer Science, respectively two Master of Engineering Degrees in Design from TUIASI and Politehnica University of Bucharest in the areas of Design and Medical Electronics and Informatics. She holds 2 Doctoral Degrees in Industrial Engineering (TUIASI), respectively in Electronics and Telecommunication.


raluca.maria.aileni@gmail.com

TITERA

Katja Brenčič

Bio

Katja Brenčič

Daily, she is involved in work related to sustainability, textile innovations, smart textiles, and digital, and green transformations. She is a project manager, managing and working on multiple EU projects (ADDtex, HackTEX, DigiTEX label), networking, and participating in transnational events.

katja@titera.tech

UBORAS

Mohammad Neaz Morshed
Bio

Mohammad Neaz Morshed

Daily, she is involved in work related to sustainability, textile innovations, smart textiles, and digital, and green transformations. She is a project manager, managing and working on multiple EU projects (ADDtex, HackTEX, DigiTEX label), networking, and participating in transnational events.

mohammad_neaz.morshed@hb.se

UPC

Mônica Ardanuy

Bio

Mônica Ardanuy

Full Professor in Textile Engineering. Head of the Textile Engineering Section of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and researcher at INTEXTER. Head of the Textile Technology Research Group (TECTEX). Her field of expertise focuses on the development of fiber-reinforced sustainable composites, fiber-to-fiber textile recycling, and smart textiles.
monica.ardanuy@upc.edu

Acting on-site

UPC

Helena Oliver-Ortega

Bio

Helena Oliver-Ortega

Lecturer in the Material Science and Engineering Department- Textile Engineering Section (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-UPC) and researcher in INTEXTER. BSc in Chemistry (UdG), MSc in Industrial Chemistry (UAB), and PhD in Technology (UdG). Her research focuses on natural fibres, polymeric, and composite materials. Member of the Textile Technology Research Group (TECTEX).

helena.oliver@upc.edu
UPC

Heura Ventura

Bio

Heura Ventura

Serra-Húnter Tenure-track Lecturer in the Material Science and Engineering Department- Textile Engineering Section (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-UPC) and Researcher in INTEXTER. BSc in Industrial Design (ELISAVA-UPF) and Material Science Engineering (UPC), MSc and PhD in Textile Engineering. Her research focuses on cement and polymeric composite materials reinforced with textile fibres, sustainability, smart textiles, and product design. Member of the Textile Technology Research Group (TECTEX).

heura.ventura@upc.edu

UPC

Valentina Buscio

Bio

Valentina Buscio

Lecturer in the Material Science and Engineering Department- Textile Engineering Section (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-UPC) and researcher in INTEXTER. MsC and PhD in Textile Engineering. Her field of expertise focuses on waste textile water treatment and sustainability. Member of the Textile Technology Research Group (TECTEX).

valentina.buscio@upc.edu

UPC

Gabriela Dayana Mijas

Bio

Gabriela Dayana Mijas

Lecturer in the Material Science and Engineering Department- Textile Engineering Section (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-UPC) and researcher in INTEXTER. MsC and PhD in Textile Engineering. Her field of expertise focuses on obtaining fibres from agricultural byproducts and knitting technology. Member of the Textile Technology Research Group (TECTEX).

gabriela.mijas@upc.edu

CRETHIDEV

Maya Dimitriadou

Bio

Maya Dimitriadou

Project Manager at CRETHIDEV, dealing mainly with projects on textile and expertise on quality assurance issues. In her previous job she has been Head of the Quality Control Department of ELKEDE, Technology and Design Center, a semi-public organization that supported many sectors of the industry, textile and clothing industry being one of them

maya.dimitriadou@gmail.com

UBORAS

Sweta Iyer

Bio

Sweta Iyer

Dr. Sweta Iyer is a Researcher in the Department of Textile Materials Technology (TMT) at University of Borås since October 2020. . Her field of expertise are textile technology and material chemistry. Her background encompasses extensive research in fiber technology, spinning, textile finishing, textile biotechnology and development of sustainable functional textiles. Her doctoral research work primarily emphasize functionality, sustainability, and resource efficiency. She has competence in digital printing, 3D printing and plasma treatment techniques. Prior to her doctoral studies, she garnered valuable industrial experience. The synergy between academia and industry has enriched her research capabilities and fostered strong teamwork skills. Her teaching responsibilities encompass textile chemistry, advanced textile technology for bachelor and master students. She has published relevant publications and has been an evaluator for doctoral dissertation. Her research focus involves use of sustainable processes, biobased chemicals, eco-efficient technologies which has direct positive implication towards the environment. Dr. Iyer is involved in several national and European funded projects.

sweta.iyer@hb.se

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