Let’s Stitch Up The Imperfections Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Stitch Up The Imperfections

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

According to magazine Forbes, sustainable lifestyle will become the main trend in future. Young people are able to adapt to new trends twice faster as the older generation. European Youth Strategy – empowering and investment into youth – is aiming to support know-how and skills, which motivate young people to critical thinking and change of attitude.
Project RecyCOOL! is offering young people essential know-how and skills in topics of sustainability of textile industry, which is currently one of top five the most dirty industries of the world. The aim of our project is create full-valued and attractive educational package within topics of textile industry and sustainability. This will offer educators – teachers, youth workers, or young people themselves – necessary knowledge and skills and will be applicable in formal and non-formal environment.
The name Let’s Stitch Up The Imperfections is a program, where will be the space to find in interactive way new knowledge and skills within topics of textile industry, such is a process of making clothes, its environmental impact, but as well will offer sustainable solutions and manuals. The part of the educational package is for example documentary The True Cost, series of upcycling workshops, gaining basic practical skills, which are missing in formal educational system.
The added value of project is collaboration of young people with local designers, when they will be making own clothes and present them later during sustainable event. The whole spectre of acquired know-how and skills will support formation critical thinking of young people, which will lead to change of attitude.
The project is submitted by Slovak NGO Nitka, the strategic partners are NGO Fashion Revolution Global, ngo., NGO Fashion Revolution Česká republika a NGO Fashion Revolution Slovensko, all involved in edification and education in topics of transparency, sustainability and ethics.
Intellectual outputs are series of manuals and informations, which will help educators educate young people. It’s a series of interactive and static manuals and guidelines, which will introduce educator and his/hers group into basics of sustainable and ethical fashion.
The intellectual outputs are:
– Sustainable fashion interactive guideline
– Sustainable fashion educational curriculum
– Mentoring young people manual
– Sustainable event management manual
Intellectual outputs will be tested on young participants during 2 years. Through testing and transnational educational events we will fully educate and train educators to use intellectual outputs in and they will become competent to multiply them in their environment. Multiplier events will be an important part of dissemination of results, where intellectual outputs are presented along with dissemination on other canals, which will affect other potential educators.
We will create online platform with free access to all intellectual outputs. Platform will be designed for educators, youth workers, students, young people and public. They will be free and downloadable and published in Slovak, Czech and English language.
Topics of sustainable fashion industry can be solved only through international cooperation, so we decided to participate on this transnational effort and disseminate our results not only within participating countries, but also in global context due to channels of Fashion Revolution Global.
The impact of project will have an influence of important strategies on European level, such as European Youth Strategy. It is young generation, which has an enormous potential to innovate and create a critical mass with effect and influence of worldwide happenings. The example is 16-year old Swedish girl Greta Thunberg, who decided to mobilise young people around the world and actively influence policy making and resolve the question of climate change.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112539 Eur

Project Coordinator

Nitka & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Fashion Revolution Slovakia
• Fashion Revolution Ceska republika ZS
• Fashion Revolution CIC