White Paper
This White Paper focuses on describing the main skills required to address challenges and prospects related to reducing global carbon emissions from the fashion industry, to protecting biodiversity and to stemming the damage to the environment that is underway because of the exponential growth of the sector in the following 4 key areas: Design, Raw Materials, Supply Chain and Production. This White Paper supports the dissemination of the results related to the employability skills required for a sustainable approach for businesses and entities operating in the fashion industry. It is one of the outputs from a 3 year co-funded Erasmus+ project led by Glasgow Caledonian University. Free download available here
Toolkit
This toolkit offers a total of 25 activities that can inspire people who aim to work in the fashion industry. Each step helps the user to acquire the key skills to implement sustainability in the fashion industry. This toolkit offers material for navigating and focusing on the key employability skills for sustainable fashion. The user can interact, explore, watch, and listen through the 25 available QR codes that offer activities, audiovisual content, and an online survey that provides the user with a personal sustainable fashion score and some tips to improve. This document is meant to be used in conjunction with the White Paper and
other relevant material from the project which can be downloaded at this website. Free download available here
Sustainable Fashion Employability Skills Survey
The results provide a current picture of how fashion companies work towards the sustainability issue and challenges they face to implement it. An overarching idea is that all stakeholders involved in the fashion industry (companies, suppliers, customers, etc.) need to improve efforts regarding sustainability: it should be a joint venture. All companies have sustainable practices in place -more than 80% of surveyed-. In addition, communication of sustainability measures they have or will implement is an important aspect for more than 70% of respondents. There is a strong commitment among companies towards working under the slow fashion movement (54,31% choose between 8 to 10 in the scale). Free download available here
Contemporary Skills for Sustainable Fashion Module
The purpose of this module is to equip students with a broad based knowledge and understanding of the nature and background of sustainable fashion industry practices. Through the use of co-creation, the purpose of this module is to equip students with an understanding of the evolution and contemporary aspects of sustainable fashion, job roles and employability within the fashion industry. Furthermore, following an international, intergenerational and interdisciplinary format, the module introduces students to the concepts, principles and practicalities within the fashion industry that focus on aspects of sustainable fashion and employability. Free download available here The SFES module handbook is also available here