TexUnite - Service Learning on Sustainability
in Textile and Fashion Education
Project No.: 2024-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000253935
Project period: 01.09.2024-31.08.2027
In order to transform the textile and fashion sector into a sustainable system, all stakeholders are required to fulfil the EU sustainability strategies and engage at local and global levels. The TexUnite project promotes the key competences required to achieve the SDGs by introducing service learning into study programmes on textiles, clothing and fashion through project-based seminars. Lecturers are empowered to undertake service-learning projects through active participation in the Sustainable Textile Lab (SusTexLab) training module.
The aim is to carry out sustainability oriented service-learning projects with students and external partners. The Virtual Exchange method will be used to establish an intercultural exchange between the six European partner universities. In this way, the project combines digitalisation and sustainability. The results of the project will be published as Open Educational Resources (OER).
Integrating service learning into a university curriculum fosters democratic values and awareness, critical thinking, reflection on textile production and fashion consumption, cooperation and social skills, and international exchange between university teachers, students and external partners.
Project Activities
Sustainable Textile Lab (SusTexLab)
Development and implementation of an online training seminar with teaching and learning arrangements for the implementation of sustainable service-learning projects with students and for intercultural exchange using the Virtual Exchange method.
Service-Learning Projects
Development, implementation and evaluation of service-learning projects at the partner universities. Based on the SusTexLab, partners for service-learning projects, e.g. NGOs, municipalities or sustainability-oriented companies, are approached and integrated into international tandems via the Virtual Exchange.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Development of OER, based on the teaching and learning materials of the SusTexLab and the SL projects, for the open access repository ZOERR and project presentation on the European platform EPALE.
The project start was on 1 September 2024.
In the winter semester 2024/25 and in the summer semester 2025, the seminar will take place at the University of Education Freiburg as an online event via the e-learning platform ILIAS Extern. Participants will be at least 3 lecturers in fashion and textiles from each of the six universities.
Partner Universities
- University of Education Freiburg, Germany (Coordinator)
- Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, Germany
- Gheorghe Asachi Technical University Iaşi, Romania
- Trakia University Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
- University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Ege University Izmir, Turkey
Project Coordinator
University of Education Freiburg
Institute for Everyday Culture, Sports and Health
Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Grundmeier
Telephone: +49 761 682-530
E-mail: grundmeier(at)ph-freiburg.de
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