The main objective of our project was to enhance the quality and relevance of the learning offered in education towards the latest developments in textile research, innovation and business. We focused on young generation textile workers, fashion designers and entrepreneurs and their current needs in education in connection with challenges that come from the monitoring of the huge environmental impact of textile and fashion production. In accordance with the application, we managed to create tools which provide the way for young people to enter the fashion industry and youth workers to maximise their time and resources looking for upgrading their competences especially in the fashion industry shifting their focus on greener and more sustainable procedures. Our objectives were to provide new study materials about new environmental challenges for the textile (quality, ecodesign, sustainability, recyclation, upcycling, waste management, social network knowledge and skills to support own brand and business etc.). We supplemented these with a set of short videos with sustainability and eco-design in their work, can inspire the next textile and clothing generation. All project results are to find on a new pop up workspace platform.
The European Textile and fashion industry is affected by the extreme increase in imports and the shift of production to Asia, and trend of so-called fast fashion. Europe is not going to accept this fact, therefore in 2022 it issued a separate EC Strategy for Sustainable Textiles, regulations on ecodesign, strategies for the collection and processing of textile waste, etc. are being prepared. The aim is to support quality products with higher added value, circular economy, recycling, upcycling and extending the life cycle of products. The new approach to the production of clothes thus also places new demands on the knowledge and skills of the upcoming generation of fashion designers and textile producers. Surveys among companies and schools also prove that there is a growing demand for educated people in the field of sustainability, ecodesign, sustainability, knowledge of the environment of social networks and their effective use for business and building your own brand. This was the main idea within the project was to prepare study texts, short videos with successful young professionals and to build a platform on which the created materials could be effectively shared and enable the work of young designers to become visible.