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Book of Proceedings of 13th International Scientific-Professional Symposium TEXTILE SCIENCE AND ECONOMY, Chinese- Croatian Forum, Innovation, Design and Digitalization in the Textile and Leather Sector

13th scientific-professional symposium Textile Science and Economy 2020 – TSE 2020, which was postponed due to the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus, was held on September 18, 2020, organized by the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology. Given the unfavourable epidemiological situation in many countries around the world, including the Republic of Croatia, the Symposium was held as a video conference. This year's symposium is organized as a CHINESE-CROATIAN FORUM, encouraged by the established scientific and bilateral cooperation between the scientists from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology and the Zhejiang University as well the College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University in China. In this sense, we have further chosen the Confucius institute at the University of Zagreb as a partner in the organization of the Symposium. The main role of the Confucius institute in Croatia is to promote the Chinese language and culture, thus to strengthen the economic bond between the Republic of Croatia and the People's Republic of China. The technical support for the organization of the videoconference was provided by the Croatian Academic and Research Network. On this occasion, I would like to thank our partners for their contribution. This year's symposium was held under the auspices of the umbrella state institutions, one international and other Croatian associations, important for the Textile and Leather sector, which I would also like to thank. I want to particularly thank all the distinguished guests and senior government officials for their presence, welcome speeches and their support. The main topic of the symposium was "Innovation, Design and Digitization in the Textile and Leather Sector", whic is also promoted by the strategies of the European Union and has also opened the possibility of presenting the latest scientific and technological achievements, the potential for their commercialization and development trends through an interdisciplinary approach at the global level, as directions for future Textile and Leather sector's development. The Conference was held simultaneously within three virtual rooms: VIRTUAL ROOM 1 - a central room where invited lectures were held. VIRTUAL ROOM 2 - a room where several national scientific projects by our esteemed professors were presented, as well as economic block, where presentations of company representatives and promotional activities of companies from the Textile and Leather sector were held. Some of the former students of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology, also presented themselves as successful young entrepreneurs. VIRTUAL ROOM 3 - PhD students' room, where both students' presentations from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology and other participating Institutions were held. 14 invited lectures were held by eminent scientific and professional experts from seven countries, who have given lectures on nowadays' hot scientific research topics, on the economic sector challenges during the global pandemic and some guidelines for a possible growth. The same are based on the implementation of innovations in the development processes, important for the economy, digitalization of business processes, networking as well as challenges and opportunities of the digital age, in terms of global economy. The economy of the 21st century is facing new challenges in the field of entire business digital transformation, as well as product development, based on innovation. The digital transformation implies a thorough and fast transformation of the business, processes, capabilities and models, with the aim to fully exploit the possibilities of digital technologies and their impact on the economy, but also on the society as a whole. Within this respect, special attention was given to China, as the world’s largest market and economic superpower of the 21st century. I would like to thank them all, as well as all other participant in two other virtual rooms. My special thanks go also to all sponsors and donation partners, which have supported the realization of the video conference in this extremely difficult time of the economy sector. Numerous scientists and experts from the international scientific community and the Republic of Croatia, as well as prominent experts, have contributed to the symposium by submitting their scientific, review or professional papers. We have accepted a total of 55 papers, out of which 21 are submitted by the PhD students, enrolled in the doctoral study Textile Science and Technology at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology. Among those, several are coming from the Technical University of Lodz in Poland and the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. In this sense, Symposium accompanies the edition of the Book of Proceedings, as well as the Book of Abstracts in the online edition with open access. I would like to thank all the authors and co-authors of the papers for their contribution, as well as the Scientific Committee and our distinguished scientists from the International Review Committee, who have contributed with their expertise, to the Proceedings compilation of scientific, review and professional papers, covering relevant research topics. Given that this year's Symposium was held as an international video conference for the first time, in addition to the numerous participants who actively participated in the symposium realization within the virtual rooms, public monitoring of the video conference was provided via a live stream through TSE 2020 official website, TTF official website and You Tube channels. The video conference was followed by more than 700 participants from a number of countries around the world, from the international academic community, the economic sector, state institutions and participants from the field of vocational education, Textile and leather sector. I would like to thank all the participants for their presence and I do hope it was beneficial for them. I also hope that this event will positively contribute to the visibility of the entire activity of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology in the international academic community, as well as in the economic sector. I would sincerely like to thank the Faculty management for their trust, support and help and finally, my great thanks to all my dear colleagues from the organizing committee for all the support, enthusiasm and effort invested in the organization of the first international video conference organized by the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology.

textile science & economy ; China, innovation ; design, digitalization ; textile and leather

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