Proceedings of the Romanian Textiles and Leather Conference

The 20th Romanian Textiles and Leather Conference– CORTEP 2026, which will take place in Iași, from 5–7 November 2026, is a major international scientific event organized by the Faculty of Industrial Design and Business Management of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, Romania.

The CORTEP 2026 conference offers specialists and managers from the textile, clothing, leather and footwear industry (TCLF), as well as from entrepreneurship and business, a platform for the exchange of knowledge, new ideas and experiences, and provides insight into the latest developments and the current state of research.

The framework of the conference will be supported by the following interdisciplinary topics:

• Artificial Intelligence applied in textiles
• Innovative textile materials and processing
• Science and technology of textile machinery
• Smart textiles, medical textiles, composites
• Digital product development for TCLF industry
• Comfort, quality of textiles and sensory evaluation
• Innovations in textile dyeing and finishing
• Recycling, life cycle analysis, sustainability and circularity
• Advances in leather processing
• Footwear design and technology
• New business models and emergent ecosystems
• Entrepreneurship and innovation
• Engineering education

CORTEP 2026 will be the third edition of the conference for which the accepted papers will be published as Open Access Proceedings by the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași in partnership with Paradigm Publishing Services and indexed in various databases.

Organizer

The Faculty of Industrial Design and Business Management of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, Romania.

Date and location of the event

5–7 November 2026, Iași, Romania

Sponsors or funding options

Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania