Educators Summit – State of the Art in Sustainable Fashion

EDUCATORS SUMMIT 2018 will continue the trajectory begun in 2016 by inviting educators from all over the world to meet in Copenhagen this May. The aim of the SUMMIT is to establish a platform for sharing experiences and ideas as well as to discuss good practices in teaching topics related to fashion and sustainability: How can educators help guide students to discover and to examine new trends and issues regarding sustainable fashion in 2018?

This year, EDUCATORS SUMMIT is hosted by the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA) in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, who will act as special advisors.

EDUCATORS SUMMIT is divided into four parts: SUSTAINABILITY IN ACADEMIA // IMPLEMENTING THE SDGs IN ACADEMIA // INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA // DINNER AND MINGLING.

The aim of the SUMMIT is to establish a platform for sharing experiences and ideas as well as to discuss good practices in teaching topics related to fashion and sustainability: How can educators help guide students to discover and to examine new trends and issues regarding sustainable fashion in 2018?

• Development work on the Educators Summit 2018 with educators from Design and Business; 4 workshops/meetings held in January – April 2018
• Half day seminar and dinner held on May 14th 2018
• Evaluation work
• Development work based on the evaluations moving towards educators summit 2019
• Fundraising activities

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