| Objective
The EU textile and fashion sector is required to transform into a sustainable system. All stakeholders need to adapt to EU regulations and engage on a local and global scale. The TexUnite project promotes the key competences required to achieve sustainability goals by introducing Service Learning (SL) in textile and fashion education through project-based seminars. Lecturers are enabled to carry out SL projects through the active participation in the further education module Sustainable Textile Lab.
| Implementation and Results
The project develops an online further education seminar for higher education with digitally enhanced teaching and learning arrangements to carry out sustainability-oriented service-learning project seminars with sustainability-oriented and socially engaged external partners. To establish an intercultural exchange between the projects at six European partner universities we will use the Virtual Exchange method. The project brings together digitalisation and sustainability. The results will be offered as Open Educational Resources on a database
The integration of SL into a curriculum trains democratic values and awareness, leading university teachers, students and external partners to critical thinking, reflection on textile production and fashion consumption, collaboration and social skills as well as an international exchange.
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