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Learning Outcomes
Following the completion of the Programme, the learner must be able:
1. At knowledge level
• conceive ideas within the context of developing innovative design proposals;
• identify and describe the currents of Art in the modern cultural environment;
• decode the messages of Fashion Forecasting within the current aesthetic and social state of play;
• collect and categorise information from primary and secondary sources of research;
• analyse the results of modern technology regarding the industry of the Textile and Clothing Industry;
• explain with a documented method the procedures for manufacturing one or a series of clothing products;
• specify the properties and the qualitative characteristics of the textile products used as raw materials for manufacturing clothing;
• specify the conditions for the development of new products in the Market of the Textile and Clothing Industry;
• develop Marketing and communication strategies in the procedure for promoting clothing products;
• specify the course of the Textile and Clothing Industry branch in the global and Greek economy.

2. At skill level
• reproduce a clothing style through its details;
• create complete design suggestions based on Fashion Forecasting, within the modern business environment of the Clothing Industry;
• organise a personal design system in the procedure for the organisation and development of clothing collections;
• operate electronic systems for designing and producing clothes (CAD/CAM);
• construct and process clothing standards in accordance with international somatometric specifications;
• operate the technology tools regarding the procedure for the creation of clothes;
• combine the main and auxiliary materials of the textile industry for the creation of clothes or a clothes collection;
• control the technical specifications setting the quality and the cost of the raw materials produced, of the intermediate and of the final products;
• present elementary methods for the qualitative and quantitative data analysis within the context of taking business decisions;
• organise promotional procedures within the context of a product promotion campaign for clothes.

3. At competence level
• select the suitable actions with regard to the procedure for organising and developing a collection;
• identify and integrate the messages of the Fashion Forecast in the spirit of a modern design proposal;
• evaluate the originality of an idea and manage it accordingly within the procedure of product development;
• defend their aesthetic selections and justify or revise them, when considered necessary;
• use the results of the scientific research based on continuous technological progress and sustainability;
• integrate technological innovation in the procedures and systems developed;
• resolve effectively problems regarding the knowledge and skills acquired, in their work environment;
• participate as an expert in International Fashion Shows and organisations of the Clothing industry;
• observe the basic rules with regard to labour relations and/or the management of human resources;
• contribute to the adjustment of Businesses to the modern, globalised, environment of the Clothing industry.