About the project
STEM is fashionable connects career guidance, sustainability and the textile/fashion industry. The English summary states that the project encourages young people in career orientation to discover STEM-related professions shaping the transformation of fashion and textiles. The public record connects this work to Young people in career orientation phases, VET teachers, trainers and practice counsellors and Schools and extracurricular career guidance providers, where STEM / STEAM, Digital learning and Sustainability need to become understandable, motivating and practical for real learning settings.
The project addresses inclusion and diversity through an experiment box designed for different learning types, including auditory, visual, haptic-kinesthetic and cognitive learning preferences. This makes vocational guidance more practical and accessible. The activity record covers Prepare an overview of STEM-related professions in textile and fashion, Develop and test scientific/chemical experiments linked to the textile chain and Create a short teacher/practice counsellor guide. The project developed outputs such as Posters visualising STEM-related textile and fashion professions, Scientific/chemical experiment materials and Guide for teachers and trainers to implement the experiments, with results presented here only where they are supported by the local source record.
Objectives
- Introduce young people to STEM-related professions in textile and fashion.
- Promote sustainability in the textile and fashion industry through STEM professions.
- Design inclusive experiment materials for different learning types.
Main results
- Posters visualising STEM-related textile and fashion professions.
- Scientific/chemical experiment materials.
- Guide for teachers and trainers to implement the experiments.