The “Re-Fashionable” Summer Lab will bring together 3 trainers or staff members from each partner organization plus 5 students from each participating fashion school for 4 days in Friesland, The Netherlands. The first objective is to bring together in person representatives of the target groups that have followed the project’s elearning course and are members of the “Re-Fashionable” platform and, by using Business Model Canvas to create solid, applicable business solutions for sustainability in the fashion industry and fashion world in general.

The main objective of this task is to connect the platform and the e-learning course to the physical world, and to demonstrate in practice how the beneficiaries of this project can meet through the platform, become properly equipped in knowledge and competences through the course and meet to design a common new venture/project. The Summer Lab in that way, is a manifestation of how the overall objectives of the project (how to make fashion more sustainable, how to find and use tools of sustainability and how to channel ideas and creativity in a more sustainable direction), can become a reality.

The second objective is to upload the created Business Model ideas to the Blog section of the “Re-Fashionable” platform to provide an example of how sustainable fashion can be implemented in practice and inspire other industry players to follow this example.

The third objective is to create a set of video stories (videos and short texts) derived from the experience and uploaded to the platform’s Blog.

The fourth objective is to upskill and re-skill participants in the following competences, as described by the GreenComp Competence Framework and namely: Valuing sustainability, developing Systems Thinking and Critical Thinking, developing Problem Framing, Futures Literacy, Adaptability and Exploratory Thinking.