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 manualIntellectual 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.

Project Too RecyCOOL for School connects topics of the fashion industry and sustainability with distance learning forms of non-formal education as a response to demands of today's world. Our clothing is everyday part of our lives, yet transparency of its production is on a worldwide scale almost non-existable, who made our clothes and what they are made of are questions with answers difficult to find.Talking about the fashion industry is important because it's an industry with heavy impacts on environmental and social areas. It's unthinkable that it could sustain in the form as we know it today, and its flaws were completely exposed with the arrival of a pandemic and social crisis of workers in this industry.Young people are the main target group of fast fashion campaigns, both selling campaigns and greenwashing campaigns. These are aimed on young people who are trying to and succeeding in living their lives in more sustainable and responsible ways. Finding verified information in chaos around us, picking the relevant parts and connecting them in context is demanding, but doable, as long as young people have the insight into the subject.This project idea was raised and developed by Star Team, which is a group of four young people, volunteers in Fashion Revolution Slovakia, actively participating in running the organization and its campaign. They are coming from and working with a target group, so they know the needs of young people and ways of dealing with them. Star Team is a connection between organisation and implementation of the project and they will shape and moderate it. Activism, eco-grupos and volunteerism - young people want to solve topics surrounding them, but the topic of the fashion industry is completely absent especially in formal and non formal education. The only way to educate about it is through self-study and following campaigns on social media.The aim of the project is to widen and deepen young people competencies, obtain their better orientation within topics of fashion industry and its sustainability, its place in the world economics context, understanding the impact of the fashion industry on the environment, society and economy, its connection with our everyday lives and finding solutions (literally) through our own wardrobes. Development of this know-how and skills (evaluation of own user habits, ability to amend own clothing, critical approach to commercial campaigns, recognition of greenwashing, etc) will shift attitudes of young participants of this education.Outcomes of the project are lessons about the fashion industry and sustainability, usable in formal and nonformal environments by young people and young people with hearing difficulties. Open source lessons will offer cross-sectional education absent in the formal education system, lessons will be reflecting subjects of classic school subjects.Activities in these lessons will be created the way they are usable in different conditions and youth workers/educators will be able to adapt them to the needs of their target groups. Universality of lessons is guaranteed thanks to their form.Project primary target groups are young people, young people with hearing difficulties and youth workers/educators working with them. Secondary target groups are educational and edification institutions, formal and informal groups of people with hearing difficulties and all prospective users.Project will result in a unified package of 50 lessons in text and video form, available for and manageable by young people and young people with hearing difficulties, as well as in methodology on how to use these lessons in work with the target groups.Other results of the project will be fully educated 100 young people with/without hearing difficulties from partner countries, formation of Star Teams (groups of young people contributing to project activities and activities of partners, each 3-4 members) and their ability to cooperate on international level, fully educated 15 youth workers from 5 partner countries (with own participation on project outcomes, ready to use, disseminate and build on these outcomes), 150 youth workers from 5 partners countries able to use outcomes in their work. All this will strengthen the educational environment on national and european level and contribute to digitalisation of education.