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Project Overview

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 in textile and fashion education through project-based seminars.

Lecturers are enabled to carry out Service-Learning projects through the active participation in the further education module Sustainable Textile Lab (SusTexLab).

About the Project

TexUnite 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 external partners. To establish intercultural exchange between six European partner universities, we will use the Virtual Exchange method, bringing together digitalisation and sustainability. All resources will be offered as Open Educational Resources (OER).

The integration of Service Learning into a curriculum promotes democratic values and awareness, guiding university teachers, students, and external partners in critical thinking, reflection on textile production and fashion consumption, and fostering collaboration and social skills.

Work Packages

Sustainable Textile Lab (SusTexLab):  Development and implementation of an online training seminar with teaching and learning arrangements for the implementation of sustainable service-learning projects with students and for intercultural exchange using the Virtual Exchange method.

Service-Learning Projects:  Development, implementation and evaluation of service-learning projects at the partner universities. Based on the SusTexLab, partners for service-learning projects, e.g. NGOs, municipalities or sustainability-oriented companies, are approached and integrated into international tandems via the Virtual Exchange.

Open Educational Resources (OER) Development of OER, based on the teaching and learning materials of the SusTexLab and the SL projects, for the open access repository ZOERR and project presentation on the European platform EPALE.

Key Facts

Partner Universities

 

 

University of Education Freiburg, Germany (lead organisation)

 

University of Applied Sciences Albstadt-Sigmaringen, Germany

 

Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, Romania

 

Trakia University Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

 

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Ege University, Izmir, Turkey