Environmental Impact

The climate challenge and its effects, increasingly evident in our daily lives, demand action at all levels. Despite the direct impact felt by everyone, EU data indicates a declining trend in individual responsibility towards climate action. The Special Eurobarometer on Climate Change, published by the EC in June 2023, highlights that more than three quarters (77%) of EU citizens think climate change is a very serious problem at this moment. However, when asked who should fight it, citizens point to the responsibility of national governments (56%), the EU (56%) and business and industry (53%), being only a 35% those that hold themselves personally responsible. Considering age alone, the data show that those over 55 take less individual responsibility and take fewer actions in their daily lives, compared to younger citizens, especially the 25-39 age group, who are the most active. It is important to highlight that citizens over 55 represent a 20% of total population in Europe, high percentage that climate action measures cannot leave behind. But other socio-demographic factors also play a role. Thus, those with lower education levels, lower income levels, or who consider themselves lower class or lower middle class are the least aware and active.

In this context, Media Creativa is leading, with the support of Drosostalida (Greece) and Business Foundation for Education (Bulgaria) the Erasmus+ project B-GLOCAL, with the aim of addressing this issue by prioritizing environmental protection and the fight against climate change education. We focus on creating innovative and motivating local learning spaces for adults, fostering grassroots actions that contribute from the local to the global level. By mobilizing citizens, B-Glocal seeks to empower individuals to take meaningful action in combating climate change and protecting the environment.

B-Glocal creates three main resuts:

• An online platform with educational resources for vulnerable adults, with microlearning modules and 40 challenges to motivate awareness raising, skills development and behaviour changes.
• National face-to-face workshops with adults over 55 from vulnerable settings, to promote competences improvement so they become active agents in the green transition.
• Transnational workshop with adults’ educators and trainers to facilitate professional exchange of experiences and promotion of climate change and environmental protection good practices.

The project started on 1st February 2024 and lasts 16 months.

 We invite you to stay tuned and visit our site and social media for further information!

https://www.b-glocal.eu/

https://www.facebook.com/b.glocal.project

https://www.linkedin.com/company/b-glocal

In the face of mounting climate challenges, environmental sustainability has become an urgent priority globally. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and the European Union's Green Deal have placed great emphasis on the role of education in fostering sustainable practices. However, research indicates that Environmental Sustainability (ES) is often implicitly addressed in preschool curricula, with limited focus on the active participation of children as catalysts for change and global citizens. Additionally, there is a lack of pedagogical resources tailored to the needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students. To address these gaps and cultivate a generation of environmentally-conscious citizens, the GreenGUARDens project endeavors to integrate both Environmental Sustainability (ES) and Green Entrepreneurship (GE) in kindergartens through innovative training and experiential learning.

The Re-fashionable project is an Erasmus+ funded project that aims to develop skills and tools that will revolutionize the fashion industry and enhance its sustainability. The activities of the project benefit fashion and VET school trainers and students, fashion companies and environmental organisations, by providing tools and materials that can help each group align its operations and activities with the European sustainability goals regarding sustainable fashion and climate-neutrality. 

In order to realise that goal, 6 organisations across 5 countries (Spain, Italy, Greece, Hungary and the Netherlands) have joined forces. Re-fashionable is supported by the combined expertise of non-profit organisations, businesses and educational institutions. 

What is the drive behind Re-fashionable?  

The understanding of the current state of the fashion industry and its significantly negative impact on sustainability on a global scale.  

Due to fast fashion trends and general practices of overproduction and overconsumption, coupled with bad waste handling, the fashion industry has risen to become the 2nd largest polluter globally. Those facts have led to significant environmental and social effects that directly oppose the sustainability goals set by the EU. As a result, legislative pressure is being applied to manufacturers, distributors and retailers, through the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles and similar initiatives that aim to bring sustainability into fashion. A reform of the industry is required, which subsequently demands a reform of the training process of fashion professionals and practitioners. 

The Re-fashionable project aims to build a platform that will raise awareness about the problems of the fashion industry, encourage ideas for their solution and cultivate a commitment to a more sustainable fashion industry. Through the provision of tools and knowledge, Re-fashionable will arm future and current fashion professionals, practitioners and educators for their journey of forging a fashion industry that is circular, environmentally and socially positive. The community created through refashionable will set the course of the fashion industry in the coming years and hopefully bring to fruition the plans about reducing waste and pollution through new initiatives and attitudes towards production, consumption and disposal. 

What is Re-fashionable bringing to the table? 

The main results of Re-fashionable to achieve the project’s goals are: 

• The Collaborative Digital Platform: A digital space for fashion schools and students, fashion companies, professionals, and environmental organizations to collaborate, exchange ideas and good practices, build projects, and learn from each other. This platform will be the basis for a community that will re-imagine the sustainable fashion space. 

• An Innovative Course: “The Green Thread” is a tailored e-learning course for fashion industry professionals, providing essential knowledge on fashion sustainability, environmental and social criteria,  sustainable technology in fashion, and much more. Through the course, learners will garner all the necessary skills to embark on their sustainable fashion journey. The course, by its structure and content, is a valuable and ready-to -use learning source for fashion schools and VET trainers who wish to incorporate sustainability and circularity concepts and examples in their teaching and training.  

• The Summer Lab: An in-person event where project target groups can interact, conceptualize opportunities, and explore new media in the context of sustainability. Through face-to-face interaction, the exchange of practices and generation of ideas regarding sustainability in fashion will be enhanced. 

Through the official project website https://refashionable.eu/, you can become part of the fashion sustainability community and benefit from the publicly available, free tools developed through the Re-fashionable project. You can also follow the project’s progress through the official Facebook and Instagram pages. For any further information, please feel free to contact Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..