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University Contest

Your application for the Heimtextil University Contest

As part of Heimtextil, the "Heimtextil University Contest" offers a competition to promote young professionals, who have freshly graduated from a university in a textile and/or design program, to create a platform for the innovators of tomorrow.

Make use of the opportunity to present your graduation work or design project drafts / institution’s academic portfolio to approximately 50,000 trade visitors from around the world and to representatives of the international trade press at Heimtextil, the leading international trade fair for home and contract textiles.

We are looking forward to the creative ideas and concepts of the students—the next generation of the textile industry—which will show new directions and inspire the sustainable future of home textiles and textiles for interiors. To participate in the University Contest, a representative contact (professor or student) must register on our online platform.

The winning universities / students will receive a free all-in stand at Heimtextil 2025. The area will be located in the Textile Design segment in Hall 3.0 near to the Heimtextil Trend Space. With more than 150 exhibitors Heimtextil is the world’s largest platform for textile design.

Free registration

Registration to participate in the ‘Heimtextil University Contest’ is free of charge.

Winners will benefit as follows:

  • Approximately 6 square metres in the Textile Design segment in Hall 3.0, free of charge
  • A free all-in stand including
  • walls
  • carpet
  • lighting
  • 3 kw power supply with one outlet
  • table for displaying materials
  • barstools
  • daily cleaning
  • Special highlighting of the physical stand in the online exhibitor search tool and in diverse elements of the visitor guidance system

The above-mentioned components of the stand may still change slightly.

Registration to participate in the ‘Heimtextil University Contest’ is done online as follows:

The university / student can participate in the ‘Heimtextil University Contest’ by submitting graduation projects or representative design drafts of textile design and related degree programmes online to Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH. The theses submitted for the application must not be older than 6 months.

Please note:

  • The online form must be completed separately for each graduation project or representative design draft to be submitted.
  • We need a representative contact person (professor or student) that we can get in touch with.

Please note that in order to increase the chances of success, the jury will judge the projects by the following criteria*:

  • Is the outcome aesthetically creative/innovative?
  • Is it sustainable?
  • Is it digitally compatible or supportive?
  • Is it projectable/relevant to the good for society?
  • Is it future oriented?
  • Is it relevant to industry?

Once the application process has been completed, the jury of qualified experts assesses the contest entries submitted online to determine the winners. Where products or processes were developed with the help of a juror, such juror will not be entitled to cast his or her vote for such product or process. The jury’s decisions will be based on simple majority of votes cast and will be final for all participants. The jury will not provide reasons for not selecting individual entries.

The jury provides the results of its assessment to Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH and Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH communicates with the winners prior to Heimtextil 2025.

*Do not get overwhelmed, we do not expect all criteria to be covered in a project, we just mention it for transparency and orientation.

    

Contact person university / college

   

Contact information author graduate’s project 

   

Please enter the name of the author of the graduate’s project you are submitting to the ‘Heimtextil University Contest‘ here. Indicate whether the author is a student or an alumnus. You can upload the respective documentation.

     

Please upload your certificate of study / de-registration certificate here.

Max. allowed upload size: 10 MB.

     

Here you can upload a single PDF of your certificate of study / de-registration certificate.

Max. allowed upload size: 10 MB.

    

In addition to the names of the authors you can use the free-text fields and upload options to describe the projects of your graduating students or alumni in detail for the jury. The information and files you provide can be used by the jury as a basis for evaluation.

 

    

Description of the final project:

   

You can enter a description of the topic and the results of the project you are submitting for the jury here. Please provide the description in English and avoid exceeding the maximum number of characters allowed.

   

Uploads

Please upload at least one image (300 dpi) that illustrates your project.

Please adhere to the specifications regarding the format of uploads. All text submitted must be in English.

Max. allowed upload size: 10 MB.

    

Terms & Conditions

Please note that by final participation in the presentation the Terms & Conditions of Messe Frankfurt apply.

The applicant agrees to:

  • the use of the submitted materials and documents by Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH and partners involved in the Heimtextil University Contest project for internal jury purposes. The information will be treated confidentially for this process,
  • be contacted (in writing/by telephone) by Messe Frankfurt GmbH and partners involved in the Heimtextil University Contest project,
  • to be named and promoted for commercial and non-commercial purposes, especially on the event and company website, as part of a promotion video, on social media channels, apps, print media (national/international), follow-up reporting, the intranet, also in the download area for journalists, archiving, etc. (with mention of the participant’s name, website address and stand number, where applicable). For this purpose, the recordings and images may be passed to third parties or companies and service providers (such as advertising agencies) contractually associated with Messe Frankfurt. This agreement shall also apply to registered or unregistered IP-rights that are attached to the product or placed in immediate proximity. Messe Frankfurt is not liable for the production and the usage of these images.

 

     

Data protection information pursuant to Art. 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH is responsible for data processing. You can reach us at: info@messefrankfurt.com, Tel.: +49 69 75 75 0, or by post: Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt a.M., Germany. You can reach our Data Protection Officer at privacy@messefrankfurt.com or by phone: +49 69 75 75 53 35.

Messe Frankfurt Exhibtion GmbH processes the data you provide here, as well as the photos and other documents you send us, in order to prepare and advertise your presentation activities for us. The legal basis is point (b) of Article 6 (1) GDPR. We also process your data in accordance with the above declaration of consent. With your consent, we will save the data you provide here so that we may be able to contact you for further presentation activities. Your CV will be erasured after three years at the latest. The legal basis is point (a) of Article 6 (1) GDPR.

Only those recipients that have a compelling need to access your data in accordance with the above-mentioned purposes will be granted access to it. Data will not be transferred to third countries. We do not use automated decision-making or profiling for the listed processing purposes.

You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not your data are being processed, (Art. 15 GDPR); correction of data (Art. 16), erasure of date (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), as well as data portability (Art. 20). In accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR, you can revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future. In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Article 77 GDPR in conjunction with. § 19 BDSG, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, such as the Hesse State Data Protection Authority.

    

Contact

Ms Natalie Zeiß
Telephone + 49 69 75 75-64 37
natalie.zeiss@messefrankfurt.com