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Educational work with young people - Workshops in youth centres

International cooperation project: ‘Re-Thread the Future’

The textile industry needs to transform, it is clear – but how can change take place along the supply chain? These are the questions addressed by our new EU-funded project ‘Re-Thread the Future’, which FEMNET implements on the initiative of our former intern Livia together with the Hungarian organisation "Világjáró Önkéntes Tanácsadó és Szolgáltató", which specialises in international youth exchange.

Our goals

The aim of the project is to sensitize as diverse and broad a group of young people as possible to the global textile supply chain and the associated social and environmental challenges and also to encourage them to do something different. In doing so, we rely on a life-like and biographical approach that makes the global supply chain understandable and makes concrete parameters for change visible.

Video-based educational materials

Video-based educational materials are intended to introduce young people to the five key steps of the textile supply chain: Cultivation, production, consumption, reuse and disposal.

The videos introduce a person and report from their perspective on their work, their motivations as well as their wishes and worries. The personal stories open up new approaches to the global contexts of textile production and encourage us to reflect on our own role and to discuss and test alternatives.

The videos used:

• On the subject of cotton cultivation
• On the topic of sewing/work of a textile worker
• On the topic of clothes shopping
• On the topic of longer benefits/repair/upcycling
• On the subject of disposal

We are currently testing the educational materials created for this purpose. In order to spread them widely, they will soon be presented to multipliers as part of train-the-trainer workshops. These can then use the materials in both school and extracurricular education and thus reach as many young people as possible.