The Project
Textile of the Future is a cooperation project between LAMEIRINHO and Data CoLAB.
Its primary goal is to support Portuguese SMEs and Startups in developing, testing and implementing new products and services that embrace Digitalization and Environmental Sustainability to bring competitive advantages to the industries, particularly in the Textile and Apparel Industries.
What is a Test Beds?
The Test Beds concept aims to release infrastructures and equipments by companies that have the capacity for SME's and startups service's installment.
These services consist in the test and experimentation of innovative products and services of these SMEs and Startups, in physical or virtual space.
The Test Bed allows the pilots development in a physical or virtual infrastructure.
Portuguese’s SMEs and startups that have innovative products or services can join the national Test Beds network. The project ends in September 2025. Until then, you can submit your application.
Goals
This project main objective is to enhance the technological development and the introduction of new products and/or services under the Digitalization and Environmental Sustainability themes of the Industry. Always focused on the specificities of the Textile and Apparel Industry.
With this objective in mind, the Textile of the Future project will provide services for technological development, testing and validation of products and/or services for Startups and SMEs in it, as well as services for accelerating solutions, based on a infrastructure and experience of a leader company in the textile sector (LAMEIRINHO) and in the advanced know-how of digital technologies (Data CoLAB).
These services will enable a successful crossing of the “Valley of Death”, ensuring that some solutions reach higher levels of technological maturity and become, also, technically and commercially viable.
Contact
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