Lifelong learning is an elementary part of the knowledge society and of high importance for industries and societies facing digitization (Industry 4.0). This comprises individual opportunities for the employees as well as competitive advantages for companies. Two concrete solutions for textile and clothing industry will be presented here: on the one hand a sector wide offer for vocational training and on the other hand an adaptable IT based learning method enabling learning in the workplace. Both solutions show cutting edge concepts, technologies and didactic.