 Hi my name is Yirka and I'm studying innovative textile development at Saxion University. In this video I will provide you a short description of the program as well as answer some questions that you might be having. So if you've read the description at Saxion's official website you'll find that it is considered to be a good fit for you if you have a bachelor in fashion and textiles related fields. However any other bachelor is also truly welcome to apply because in the end innovation is that it's bringing disciplines and other worlds together to bring new things to life and that's exactly the case for me. I did my bachelor in chemical engineering and since the beginning since I started my bachelor I wanted to focus on material science specifically on textiles and I found that the program truly gave me that possibility to go from the scientific side to what I wanted to do with textile materials that is focusing more on their application in real world problems and in the commercial side of things. You might be also wondering what can I do or how can I apply the knowledge I acquire in this master's degree? Let me just briefly describe. We have three main lines in this program so one is a project line and this is highly practical. Projects are done conjointly with companies so every quarter we have a project which means we have four projects all along the year close a master's thesis or a master project and in these projects we work together with the companies and they provide you some problem let's say or a problem statement and you need to search solutions for it. It's really fun to do the projects of course it's a lot of work I will not deny but it's a lot of fun too and you need to provide solutions for example in the market aspect so market mix or develop a prototype it's different every time and it changes all along the quarters. Then the second line we have is the paper line there it's focused on writing and it gives you ability to develop your writing skills and there you explore themes like innovative management, business models, new product development, it's also changing every quarter and you get to write four papers in total and finally the theory line it's where we go in the theory part of textile materials there we have the topics are chemistry textile chemistry we have composite materials technical textiles smart textiles and sustainability although we have sustainability as a topic I would say it's also a holding thread all along the masters when you do the projects you need to think about sustainability when you do your papers you need to do sustainability or consider sustainability as well it's something that it's intrinsic to the masters program it's always there sustainability is always there and as well as creativity I would say so let's summarize as you get to create you get to do a lot of design thinking it's a design thinking approach I would say to textile related problems and real world problems that might be solved with textile materials and that's exactly why I like it I'm really practical in that sense so if you are also a practical person who would like to apply the knowledge and directly see the connection in between some theory and practice I would encourage you to apply another question you might have is how does a work week look or the workload I won't deny that at some points it's a lot of work especially the project but you need to be very careful on how you distribute your hours and also this is very important if you need help you have access to get help from any professor it in the end it's you need to be proactive in your studies and if you ask any professor for help they will help you for sure they will make the time for you they will provide you feedback and if they cannot provide you with a lot of help they will send you to another person that can provide you what you need so you just need to ask the guidance is there and it's crucial for the projects and papers as well finally you might be asking what can you achieve with this master's degree what does the future landscape in jobs looks like so as I said in the beginning it's a combination between research and commercial applications so in that broad landscape you can either focus on academic research in text and materials you can go work for a company you can be part of an R&D team the possibilities are endless I would say because the program provides you with tools that are practical but also highly systematic and as I said it gives you a lot of that design thinking approach and therefore you can apply things in the real world so I will provide you a concrete example of myself I am currently doing my thesis project and when I finish I'm planning to continue with a PhD so that's very going to the very research academic side of things but of course you can also go to the other side of doing some commercial and business applications your knowledge thank you for watching this video if you have further questions I would encourage you to visit Saxion's website or send an email to the program's director to find out more bye hi everyone my name is Elisa Bodderberg I'm a teacher at the master of innovative textile development at Saxion and I'm also a project manager for the research group of sustainable and functional textiles our master of innovative textile development has been designed and developed together with companies and with researchers so we worked on making sure that the master that within this master you will gain knowledge that companies and researchers within the field think you should have so what's also interesting is that with the gain knowledge you will have from the courses you will be able to directly work on projects and these projects are questions that come directly from the company so we will go to companies we will collect questions and you will work on them together with your project group and this project group is always multicultural it's always with multiple experiences we work with students from all over the world and from all different backgrounds so the master is developed for of course for ambitious and hard working students but it's also developed for people with either a technical bachelor or you will have to have some technical working experience so with this master of science you will be able to work on for example r&d projects in textile development but also smart textile development or composites or polymers it's whatever you in the end would like to do with the knowledge you have gained so thank you all for watching good luck with just with your choices if you want any more information please visit suction.nl slash masters