LOutUS aimed at: Increase knowledge and know-how on sustainable/slow fashion among VET learners and youth - raising awareness about climate change. Improve the technical skills to elongate the life of garments or upcycle them - teaching them how to upcycle old clothes. Offer young people a space and context to bond with local and international experts and peers, improving their employability opportunities, and promoting the development of new consumption patterns – giving them the opportunity to enhance their creativity by learning from others’ best practices. Create a dialogue between students and citizens, with the aim of intentional contamination, while offering the students a hands-on experience, complementary to the theoretical formation – enabling them to understand, in practice, what are the obstacles that prevent people from consuming sustainably. Increase the participating organisations' capacity to seize the opportunities for European cooperation – by implementing a project that merged the complementary expertise of the partners. Increase project management capacities of participating organisations – sharing responsibilities according to each partner’s expertise
IPCC’s latest report before COP26 declares that stabilizing the climate will require reaching net-zero CO2 emissions. A change in consumers’ habits is needed to obtain results towards a net-zero future and core to tackling climate change is to address the damages caused by fast fashion. To do so, it is key to equip young people, the main consumers of fast fashion, with the tools to develop new and more sustainable consumption patterns. LOutUS is a project that, raises awareness on the environmental impact of climate change while supporting young people in the development of the skills to fight against it. It was an opportunity to talk about huma footprint and teach young people how to consume fashion sustainably. Through a learning by doing approach, the project gradually built, among participants, the practical skills to critically analyse their consumption behaviours, to reduce their consumption of fast fashion and to raise awareness about its environmental impact. By the end of the project, the participants acquired a wide set of active citizenship skills to be able to be leaders of change.