Educational Work at Universities Photo: © Kathrin Brunnhofer For tomorrow's leaders: Our educational work at universities The leaders of tomorrow know and use their opportunities for action: This is our vision. To ensure that approaches to sustainable business become an integral part of higher education, we support university teaching and cooperate with student initiatives. Flexible bookable teaching modules Trained speakers offer specially developed workshops on various topics, which you can book with us. Book a speaker We are committed to teaching topics such as the rights of seamstresses in supplier companies, social and environmental standards in the value chain or the responsibility of companies for their impact on society at universities of applied sciences and universities. Our educational offers are aimed at fashion-related and economics degree programs as well as student initiatives and active people of all disciplines. Since 2011, our range of specially developed topics has been growing. Teaching modules and our network of professionally trained Speakers keep on going. Lectures and workshops, visits by partners from the countries of production, conferences, projects and actions with students and their networking within the framework of fashion interACTION -networked – fair -informed are part of our supra-regional and interdisciplinary offerings. On the content Research We have collected and arranged a large number of media on our main topics. We also have an overview nationwide offers zum aktiv und kreativ werden sowie zu alternativen Konsummöglichkeiten. Our goals With the educational work at universities, we create an awareness among students and lecturers about the global context, environmental and human rights violations and the reasons for the poverty of employees in clothing production. This is what we want to achieve: Today's students take responsibility for human and labour rights as decision-makers of tomorrow. They get to know and use their opportunities for action. Students and lecturers are familiar with working conditions in production countries in the global South as well as social and ecological standards in the clothing industry. Students are committed to a more socially just clothing industry and are strengthened in their role as activists and social designers. Corporate responsibility, human and labour rights become an integral part of university teaching. Educational modules for a socially responsible fashion industry Working conditions, environmental impacts, product seals, multistakeholder approaches, transparency or climate impacts - our modules are available for educational work. To the educational modules... workshops The speakers of our nationwide network bring our topics directly to the students in the form of workshops and lectures. Book a speaker fashion interACTION Fashion interACTION is a supra-regional network for students and other interested parties who are committed to a social-ecological clothing industry. With the help of a digital platform, a space is created for information, training and networking events as well as opportunities for skill and resource sharing. JOIN NOW... Get active for fair fashion Do you want to work for a socially responsible clothing industry? We support you in realizing actions and projects on the subject of fashion and human rights. To the offer for students... Conferences on Fashion and Human Rights Our conferences for students and teachers offer an extensive program with speakers from business, science, trade unions and civil society. To the documentation... Project information - Thematic area:Education & education- Country:Germany- FEMNET active since:since 2011- Current sponsors: ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL with funding from the BMZ Foundation for Environment and Development North Rhine-Westphalia - Project managers:Marijke Mulder and Kerstin Dahmen back
