Fashion.ED aims to promote sustainable practices in fashion by enhancing the skills and knowledge of students and professionals. The program supports the next generation of eco-fashion entrepreneurs through training, digital tools and resources. Objectives include developing entrepreneurial skills, providing knowledge on eco-design in fashion through interactive VR experiments, organising training and study visits, and stimulating innovation through a competition for ecodesign business plans.
Fashion.ED will implement various activities to promote sustainable practices in the fashion and textiles industry. Theseinclude developing the eco design skills of students through a MOOC, providing them with knowledge and interactive VR experiments on eco-design in fashion and textiles, organising training and study visits to real-world eco-fashion companies and involving students in a competition for the development of business plans in eco-design ventures.
Outcomes: enhancing the knowledge and skills of students and professionals regarding sustainable practices, eco-design, and circular economy. Improvement of entrepreneurial skills among students in developing successful business plans that incorporate eco-design in the fashion industry. Moreover, increasing awareness and understanding of the eco-fashion sector among students, educators, professionals, and the wider public, leading to the growth of sustainable and circular fashion industry.
Project Τitle: Supporting Entrepreneurship in Eco Design
Project Duration: 1/11/2023-31/10/2026
Scientific coordinator (UNIWA): G. PRINIOTAKHS
Consortium – Partners:
- UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
- KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS
- UNIVERSITETAS – DIN ORADEA
- AINTEK SYMVOULOI EPICHEIRISEON EFARMOGES
- YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS EKPAIDEFSI
- STICHTING BUSINESS
