FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE LAB: SUSTAINABLE CO-CREATION WITH THE EASD VALENCIA MASTER’S PROGRAM

Care Applications opens its doors to the next generation of designers to promote responsible innovation through collaboration.

On April 12, Care Applications welcomed the students and faculty of the Master’s in Co-Design for Fashion and Sustainability at EASD Valencia to its facilities, in a day dedicated to the exchange of knowledge, hands-on experimentation, and the promotion of a new vision of textile design grounded in co-creation and real sustainability.

The visit, led by Carmina Ferri, CEO of Care Applications, allowed the students to learn first-hand about our ecological finishing technologies such as ECOFinish (dye atomization with zero discharge) and Close-N, an innovative reduction dyeing system that removes oxygen through nitrogen introduction. Both technologies represent a clean, reproducible shift in the industry by offering sustainable alternatives to highly polluting processes.

They also had the opportunity to see our new sampling machine, UNO 1, in operation—a tool that enables real production parameters to be simulated at small scale, essential for quality control and industrial optimization before scaling up.

Education and industry: essential partnerships for real change

We believe sustainability in fashion cannot be addressed in isolation; it requires dialogue between industry, designers, scientists, and educational institutions. Encounters like this allow future designers not just to visit a company, but to co-create with us, ask challenging questions, and bring fresh perspectives.

Co-creating to transform

Today’s environmental, social, and economic challenges demand innovative, viable, and ethical responses. These solutions emerge from the intersection of design and technology. Training future designers with this collaborative mindset from the academic level is key to driving disruptive solutions aligned with the real needs of the planet and the sector.

We thank the EASD Valencia Master’s in Fashion and Sustainability for their visit and reaffirm our commitment to supporting emerging talent, shared research, and building networks between companies, universities, and designers.

Only by co-creating can we build a fairer, more circular, and future-ready textile industry.