The ‘Heimtextil University Contest’
As part of its „Heimtextil University Contest“, Heimtextil offers a contest to promote young professionals graduating from university in Germany or abroad and to establish a platform for tomorrow’s innovators.
Make use of the opportunity to present your institution’s academic portfolio and the projects of your graduates 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.
All national and international universities offering textile design programmes or related studies are invited to submit their entries. To take part in the University Contest, all you need to do is register and submit up to three representative graduation works from your students on our online platform.
Winning universities will receive a free all-in stand at Heimtextil 2024. 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.
Heimtextil’s PR team will ensure media coverage – blog entries, press statements and postings on social media – for the projects submitted by graduates from the winning universities.
Free registration
Registration to participate in the ‘Heimtextil University Contest’ is free of charge.
Application and selection
Registration to participate in the ‘Heimtextil University Contest’ is done online and starts a five-step application process.
Once the application process has been completed, the jury of qualified experts assesses the contest entries submitted online to determine the winners. 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 2023.
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.
