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The Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle empowers operational, technological, and social innovations developed with and for the Swiss Fashion and Lifestyle sector.
\r\nLeveraging the Leading House community and network, the Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle creates a unique ecosystem enabling the dissemination of radical solutions to the challenges of the sector.\r\n

 
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\r\nThe Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle invites companies, researchers, startups, experts, and innovators to submit sector-relevant challenges that can inspire the co-creation of radical ideas for the Swiss Fashion & Lifestyle ecosystem. Backed by Innosuisse, the program is designed to identify urgent and emerging market needs, bring together interdisciplinary stakeholders, and transform key industry challenges into new opportunities for innovation. Through an open and user-centric process, the most promising ideas can evolve into Innovation Teams and be further tested for desirability, viability, and feasibility.
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\r\nThe proposed challenge areas below reflect major transformation forces shaping the future of fashion, luxury, sportswear, and wellbeing: slower growth and rising selectivity in luxury, stronger demand for personalization and AI-enabled service, increasing relevance of wearables and health-oriented solutions, new opportunities in gaming and immersive attention environments, and mounting pressure for circularity, traceability, and end-of-life innovation in textiles.
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\r\nChallenge topics\r\n\r\n
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  1. AI-Powered Personalization, Design and Client Experience
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  2. Wearables, Smart Garments and Connected Performance
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  3. Luxury and Watchmaking Technology Innovation
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  4. E-Sports, Gaming, Interactive Worlds and New Consumer Engagement Models
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  5. From Sports Performance to Preventive Health and Wellbeing
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  6. Augmented Customer Experience and Sensory Commerce
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  7. Circular Sportswear, Recycling and End-of-Life Innovation
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  8. New Business Models for Premium, Performance and Circular Growth
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\r\nFor more info, how it works, who can apply, and to submit your application --> visit the info page.","image_description":"","creation_date":"2026-04-10T10:43:47","last_modification_date":"2026-04-10T10:44:20","link_label":"webpage","link_url":"https://ibfashionandlifestyle.ch/","canceled":"False","cancel_reason":"","place_and_room":"","url_place_and_room":"","url_online_room":"","spoken_languages":["https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=json"],"speaker":"","organizer":"coordinator at EPFL: Eleonora Borda ","contact":"info@ibfashionandlifestyle.ch","is_internal":"False","theme":"","vulgarization":{"id":2,"fr_label":"Public averti","en_label":"Informed public"},"registration":{"id":1,"fr_label":"Sur inscription","en_label":"Registration required"},"keywords":"call for application; fashion industry; Innosuisse","file":null,"icalendar_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120340/","category":{"id":17,"code":"DEADLINE","fr_label":"Echéance","en_label":"Deadline","activated":true},"academic_calendar_category":null,"domains":[],"mementos":["https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/422/?format=json"]},{"id":71572,"title":"Human Health by Design – Call for projects","slug":"human-health-by-design-call-for-projects","event_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/human-health-by-design-call-for-projects","visual_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32908/200x112.jpg","visual_large_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32908/720x405.jpg","visual_maxsize_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32908/max-size.jpg","lang":"en","start_date":"2026-05-31","end_date":"2026-05-31","start_time":"18:00:00","end_time":"23:30:00","description":"

Are you developing a medical device or a digital health solution?
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\r\nThe Human Health by Design program supports early‑stage teams in designing, prototyping, and validating solutions grounded in real clinical needs.
\r\nThis 6‑month program (June–December 2026) combines field immersion, user‑centered design, and multidisciplinary expertise to accelerate the adoption of impactful, safe, and clinically relevant technologies.
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\r\nWhat the program offers\r\n

\r\nWho can apply
\r\nEarly‑stage or pre‑incorporated projects in medtech or digital health, with a link to the canton of Vaud and a project ready to progress over the next six months.
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\r\nFunding
\r\nUp to CHF 10,000 in non‑dilutive support per project.
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\r\nKey dates\r\n\r\n\r\nSubmission
\r\nOnline form (coming soon) + PDF dossier (pitch deck, 6‑month plan, budget, CVs).
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\r\nProgram partners: Canton de Vaud | H4 La Source | Enabled by Design
\r\nAcademic partners: Ecal | EPFL","image_description":"","creation_date":"2026-04-10T15:21:31","last_modification_date":"2026-04-10T15:23:06","link_label":"Web page","link_url":"https://www.epfl.ch/innovation/startup/programs/design-and-prototype/human-health-by-design/","canceled":"False","cancel_reason":"","place_and_room":"","url_place_and_room":"","url_online_room":"","spoken_languages":["https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/1/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=json"],"speaker":"","organizer":"Enabled by Design; H4 La Source; Canton de Vaud","contact":"Daphna Glaubert (EPFL); Laurence Capel (La Source)","is_internal":"False","theme":"","vulgarization":{"id":2,"fr_label":"Public averti","en_label":"Informed public"},"registration":{"id":1,"fr_label":"Sur inscription","en_label":"Registration required"},"keywords":"Startup; Early-stage; Health; Design","file":null,"icalendar_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120347/","category":{"id":17,"code":"DEADLINE","fr_label":"Echéance","en_label":"Deadline","activated":true},"academic_calendar_category":null,"domains":[],"mementos":["https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/422/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/119/?format=json"]}]}