Villanueva University is hosting for the first time the Sustainable Fashion and Employability Skills (SFES) project by holding the Slow Fashion Fast Change conference on June 23rd at the Museo del Traje. The event will be attended by different sustainable fashion brands and will aim to present the conclusions of the results of this European Project on Employability and Sustainability in the fashion sector.
Sustainable Fashion and Employability Skills
This project, funded by the European Union through Erasmus, began in 2020 and has been conducting interdisciplinary research for three years, involving universities in several European countries along with companies in the fashion industry, to work together skills and competencies in a cross-cutting manner, in order to improve the employability of students in the field of sustainability.
During the three years of the project, different activities have taken place, such as workshops in Scotland, Madeira (Portugal) and Madrid, team meetings in London, Madrid, Nice and Valencia, online meetings of academic management and research for different papers presented at conferences, such as Sustainable Fashion Consumption Symposium 2022, the COP26 Conference in Scotland or Future of Fashion of World Design Capital.
jornada Slow Fashion. Fast Change
On June 19, this research project arrives in Madrid, bringing together professionals, teachers and university students from different countries such as Scotland, Portugal, France and Spain, the latter being the host country thanks to the University of Villanueva. Paloma Díaz Soloaga, coordinator in Spain of the Erasmus SFES project states that “the great challenge of sustainable fashion is to put the person at the center of the creation of value: to give the same relevance to those who produce the raw material, transform and manufacture it as to the consumer who buys and wears the garments“.
To support the Sustainable Fashion and Employability Skills (SFES) initiative, Villanova University is holding on June 23 the Slow Fashion. Fast Change at the Museo del Traje in which the academic partners of the project will also participate: a total of 45 professors and students from Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland), the Polytechnic University of Valencia, EDHEC Business School in Nice (France) and the University of Madeira (Portugal), as well as business partners such as Harris Tweed Hebriges and Tendam Retail Group.
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