Tips for fashion education

• make CSR and sustainability a permanent and integral part of the teaching programme and the curriculum
• integrate CSR into many different subjects and highlight it as an important aspect
• create a separate basic course in CSR
  
• place this basis course at the beginning of the programme, not at the end
• train teachers in CSR
• exchange experiences, knowledge and teaching styles between different programmes
  
• set up a network of teachers of fashion among the institutes of higher learning in the Netherlands who are eager to introduce CSR
  
• look for practical ways of working; have students analyse successful examples and have students tackle the subject on their own
• see what the programme itself can accomplish with regard to CSR (food in the cafeteria, personnel policy, reducing pressure on the environment)

Students

• CSR and sustainability will be an important part of your professional practice later on
• How can you integrate CSR into that professional practice?
• CSR is no longer a boring subject for the sandals-and-woolly-sock types. Look at the many examples in this trade review and let yourself be inspired.
• How can I take CSR into account in all the phases of garment production (from design and use of materials to the rubbish heap?
• How do I sell CSR to the consumer?
• What new chances does CSR have to offer?