Fashion DIET: Sustainable Fashion Curriculum at Textile Universities in Europe

The devastating environmental and social implications of the fast fashion and textile industry which prevailed throughout the last decades make it of high relevance to integrate the targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the UN into the entire textile value chain, i.e. production, consumption and disposal sites, to make it fully sustainable and positive for people and the ecosystems. The upcoming transformation of the textile and fashion industry towards sustainability therefore requires nothing less than a continuous implementation of the guiding principle Education for Sustainability Development (ESD) in education and training. The Fashion DIET project aimed to foster the process of ESD implementation in national educational systems. The project’s major goal was to develop an ESD further education module in the context of fashion and textiles for universities. Furthermore, teaching and learning material derived from this for vocational schools and secondary education has been developed.