Call for Challenges 2026 "Future by Design: The New Codes of Luxury, Sportswear and Wellbeing"
Event details
| Date | 24.09.2026 |
| Hour | 11:00 › 12:00 |
| Category | Deadline |
| Event Language | English |
The Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle empowers operational, technological, and social innovations developed with and for the Swiss Fashion and Lifestyle sector.
Leveraging 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.
- Call Opening: April 29th, 2026 (you can register for the webinar to get all information needed - registere here)
- Call Closing: September 24th, 2026
- Co-Creation Workshop: October 13th, 2026 (will take place at EPFL)
- Pitch Day: November 26th - (will take place at EPFL)
The 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.
The 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.
Challenge topics
- AI-Powered Personalization, Design and Client Experience
- Wearables, Smart Garments and Connected Performance
- Luxury and Watchmaking Technology Innovation
- E-Sports, Gaming, Interactive Worlds and New Consumer Engagement Models
- From Sports Performance to Preventive Health and Wellbeing
- Augmented Customer Experience and Sensory Commerce
- Circular Sportswear, Recycling and End-of-Life Innovation
- New Business Models for Premium, Performance and Circular Growth
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Practical information
- Informed public
- Registration required
Organizer
- coordinator at EPFL: Eleonora Borda