According to magazine Forbes, sustainable lifestyle will become the main trend in future. Young people are able to adapt to new trends twice faster as the older generation. European Youth Strategy - empowering and investment into youth - is aiming to support know-how and skills, which motivate young people to critical thinking and change of attitude. Project RecyCOOL! is offering young people essential know-how and skills in topics of sustainability of textile industry, which is currently one of top five the most dirty industries of the world. The aim of our project is create full-valued and attractive educational package within topics of textile industry and sustainability. This will offer educators - teachers, youth workers, or young people themselves - necessary knowledge and skills and will be applicable in formal and non-formal environment. The name Let's Stitch Up The Imperfections is a program, where will be the space to find in interactive way new knowledge and skills within topics of textile industry, such is a process of making clothes, its environmental impact, but as well will offer sustainable solutions and manuals. The part of the educational package is for example documentary The True Cost, series of upcycling workshops, gaining basic practical skills, which are missing in formal educational system. The added value of project is collaboration of young people with local designers, when they will be making own clothes and present them later during sustainable event. The whole spectre of acquired know-how and skills will support formation critical thinking of young people, which will lead to change of attitude. The project is submitted by Slovak NGO Nitka, the strategic partners are NGO Fashion Revolution Global, ngo., NGO Fashion Revolution Česká republika a NGO Fashion Revolution Slovensko, all involved in edification and education in topics of transparency, sustainability and ethics. Intellectual outputs are series of manuals and informations, which will help educators educate young people. It's a series of interactive and static manuals and guidelines, which will introduce educator and his/hers group into basics of sustainable and ethical fashion. The intellectual outputs are: - Sustainable fashion interactive guideline - Sustainable fashion educational curriculum - Mentoring young people manual - Sustainable event management manual Intellectual outputs will be tested on young participants during 2 years. Through testing and transnational educational events we will fully educate and train educators to use intellectual outputs in and they will become competent to multiply them in their environment. Multiplier events will be an important part of dissemination of results, where intellectual outputs are presented along with dissemination on other canals, which will affect other potential educators. We will create online platform with free access to all intellectual outputs. Platform will be designed for educators, youth workers, students, young people and public. They will be free and downloadable and published in Slovak, Czech and English language. Topics of sustainable fashion industry can be solved only through international cooperation, so we decided to participate on this transnational effort and disseminate our results not only within participating countries, but also in global context due to channels of Fashion Revolution Global. The impact of project will have an influence of important strategies on European level, such as European Youth Strategy. It is young generation, which has an enormous potential to innovate and create a critical mass with effect and influence of worldwide happenings. The example is 16-year old Swedish girl Greta Thunberg, who decided to mobilise young people around the world and actively influence policy making and resolve the question of climate change.
Cez edukačné materiály ucelené do programu (ktorý sa dá realizovať/adaptovať všade) sme chceli ponúknuť mladým komplexný pohľad na tému udržateľnosti textilného priemyslu s tým, že sa sami namotivujú podieľať sa na riešeniach problémov, ktoré módny priemysel vytvára, a to ako 1. aktívni občania a 2. uvedomelí konzumenti módy. Ako nástroje rozvíjania týchto kompetencií sme chceli vytvoriť: - Interaktívny sprievodca - online kurz na orientáciu v problematike - Kurikulum s aktivitami prepojenými na módu - Manuál mentorovania mladých ľudí vytvárať si oblečenie - Manuál mentorovania mladých na prípravu podujatia Ďalším očakávaným výsledkom bola webstránka pre edukátorov, pracovníkov s mladými, študentov rovnako ako pre širokú verejnosť zaujímajúcu sa o tému pomalej módy, poskytujúca voľný prístup k intelektuálnym výstupom nášho projektu v slovenčine, češtine a angličtine. Išlo nám o to, aby sa ktokoľvek so záujmom o tému vedel zorientovať v nami vytvorených materiáloch a aby bol schopný aj zrealizovať celý edukačný a mentoringový program (tak ako sme ho organizovali my) pre mladých/rovesníkov, resp. ho adaptovať na vlastnú cieľovú skupinu.
Počas praxe s mladými evidujeme ich nízke povedomie o témach módneho priemyslu a jeho enviromentálnych a sociálnych vplyvov. Cieľom projektu bolo vytvoriť edu balík pre formálne a neformálne vzdelávanie, kde mladí ľudia rozšíria svoje kompetencie v témach udržateľnosti odevného priemyslu, nadobudnú nové vedomosti a zručnosti, ktoré následne podporia formovanie postojov a kritického myslenia, čím podnietia zmenu postojov. Pri projekte sme sa rozhodli práve pre formálne vzdelávacie zariadenia-stredné školy, pretože veľa mladých je neorganizovaných a v školách je ich najväčšia organizácia a ich koncentrácia. Práve z formálneho prostredia od pedagógov aj študentov prichádzali požiadavky na informácie a materiály k téme odevného priemyslu aplikovateľné a široko využiteľné univerzálne. Na základe pilotného projektu počas šk. roku 2018/19 sme spolu so študentmi začali edukáciu o módnom priemysle. Prirodzene teda vznikla potreba vytvorenia uceleného edukačného materiálu v témach udržateľnosti. Druhou fázou bolo mentorovanie v postupoch prerábania si oblečenia a organizovania eventu. Tento pilot poskytol prierez, čo a do akej hĺbky je potrebné vyučovať, či študenti na školách ovládajú tematiku a či sme zaujali správny postup výučby.