This project pursues a new culture of business sustainability in the Spanish fashion industry, which involves a re-orientation of the sector towards new ways of thinking and acting.

This project pursues a new culture of business sustainability in the Spanish fashion industry, which involves a re-orientation of the sector towards new ways of thinking and acting.

This new orientation in the footwear sector, with a special impact on employment, drives the implementation of new management strategies, aimed at maintaining employment levels and sustainability. It seeks the introduction of eco-innovation criteria, reduction of environmental impacts, and the promotion of “eco-enterprise” in our footwear industry and its workers, with special interest in those disadvantaged groups.

The launch of the First Spanish Platform for Sustainable Footwear and Fashion 2020, CYMS2020, aims to promote change in traditional companies in the fashion industry, to promote the implementation of new management strategies, aimed at maintaining employment levels and the sustainability of the industry.

The actions proposed in the project are not only aimed at providing solutions to the aspects of greatest environmental impact, produced by the activity of the fashion industry, but also aim to anticipate and promote an environment of change in management, making an exhaustive and realistic assessment of its application in times of change in the economic cycle. using the Emprendeverde Network as a meeting point and as a loudspeaker for the Platform for Spanish Sustainable Fashion.

The target audience of the project is workers in the footwear sector in the target regions of the project. 100% of the recipients are women, the disabled, immigrants, low-skilled recipients and those over 45 years of age who work in the footwear and fashion sector.

As a result of this project, 260 recipients are expected to be trained. In total, 6,535 recipients will be reached with all the actions to be executed. The incorporation of eco-efficiency strategies in 100 companies will also be achieved through the incorporation of saving measures, the creation of eco-friendly fashion lines in 15 companies in the sector, and the reduction of water consumption in fashion production centres by 5-15%.