MODISTO involves organisations in Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic and Italy. The partnership includes vocational training centres, professional associations of the fashion and clothing sector, and organisations involved in the implementation of vocational oriented programmes and the creation of didactical resources for them. The main aims of the proposal are: - To develop a course in e-learning modality to be used as support for VET teachers, whose contents will be related to eco-design and sustainability, and its use intended for the clothing and fashion sector. - To promote and disseminate the e-learning course within VET centers in the four participating countries. - To make the resources of the e-learning course openly available and promoted at international level as an open educational resource. The project methodology intends to adapt innovative practices regarding sustainable production and consumption in the textile and fashion sector to didactical materials that support the incorporation of competences in this field to the curriculum of VET centres. Representatives of the fashion and clothing sector in Europe have identified sustainability as a priority strongly determinant for the future of this industrial sector, since the fashion industry produces nowadays 20 per cent of global wastewater and 10 per cent of global carbon emissions. The innovative aspects of MODISTO main result are the topics, the pedagogical approach and the format. The topics are structured in 4 differentiated modules: Principles of Eco-design; Sustainable fabrics; Eco-labeling and Certification; and Sustainability Criteria in the Fashion and Clothing Sector. The pedagogical approach includes the use and evaluation of practical competences based on real cases encapsulated in a didactical learning environment. The format in which the result is conceived is an e-learning course fully accessible online and with didactical suggestions for the use of the VET teachers as a complementary resource to enable the adaptation of the targeted competences to the curriculum of the VET centres. The course will be available in Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Italian and English. MODISTO will involve associated partners in all countries including additional VET centres, companies of the fashion and clothing sector, other sectoral organisations and external experts in eco-design and sustainable fashion, who will contribute to the quality of the final product. The project targets to involve directly some 20 VET teachers, 400 VET students and 100 fashion and textile company representatives in the different phases of development. By means of our dissemination strategy we plan address some 3.000 stakeholders using channels like newsletters, promotional activities and 6 multipliers events to be held during project implementation. Target groups of these dissemination and promotion actions are teachers and students of VET centres, education authorities, experts in sustainable fashion and representatives of fashion and textile companies interested in sustainable production. Most of the partners have cooperated already in successful projects of European scope with strategic value for the fashion and clothing sector. They plan to sustain the project main outcome by their own means, integrating it as a resource for the VET centres participating in the initiative, and promoting it as an open educational resource beyond the context of the partnership.
1.- We wanted to develop an effective digital, open and innovative education resource with the format of an e-learning course on sustainable fashion and eco-design to support the educational resources of VET centres, VET teachers and trainers in companies. 2.- With the support of the e-learning course we wanted to upgrade competences in the sector of fashion, clothing and textile, as this is one of the sectors where sustainability is a major challenge.
The proposal responds to the interest of the partner organisations representing the fashion and textile industry to face a global problem. According to United Nations, fashion industry produces 20 per cent of global wastewater and 10 per cent of global carbon emissions. One of the fundamental problems of the current fashion business model is that revenues are based on selling more products. Some of the solutions pointed out involve: more sustainable production methods (i.e. waterless dyeing), recycling (reusing waste as a raw material), and development of innovative solutions to the textile waste pollution problems. Europe is a key driving force on this topic.One of the main conclusions of the policy level current work is that changing consumption patterns towards sustainable behaviours and attitudes requires a shift in how the society thinks about and value of garments. MODISTO project has contributed in this line of action, bringing closer to the education sector, and particularly to vocational studies, the current trends on sustainable fashion and eco-design as a complementary part of their curriculum. This is why we have decided to focus on producing an open education resource and promoted it transnationally.