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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, that is clear – but how can change occur along the supply chain? These are the questions addressed by our new EU-funded project Re-Thread the Future, which FEMNET implements at 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 ecological challenges and to encourage them to do things differently. In doing so, we rely on a lifelike and biographical approach that makes the global supply chain understandable and makes concrete adjustment screws visible for change.

Educational materials for multipliers 

We are currently developing video-based educational materials that will introduce young people to five key steps in the textile supply chain: Cultivation, production, consumption, re-use and disposal.

The videos introduce a person and report from their perspective about their work, their motives as well as their wishes and concerns. The personal stories open up new approaches to the global context of textile production and encourage people to reflect on their own role and to discuss and test alternatives.

In the autumn of 2026, the educational materials will be completed and tested in practice. In order to spread them widely, they are presented to multipliers in train-the-trainer workshops. They can then use the materials in both school and extracurricular education and thus reach as many young people as possible.