Textile and Fashion Value Chains and Indicators of Responsibility

29.8.2025 - 3.10.2025

5 cr

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• Corporate social responsibility; economic, social and ecological responsibility • Challenges in global textile and clothing value chains • Climate targets and carbon-neutral business in the textile and clothing sector • Measuring organizational responsibility • Tools and methods for assessing environmental and social responsibility • Environmental management systems, labels and certificates • Principles of environmental and social auditing • Value chain transparency; the importance of technology and digitalisation

Additional information

Opetus toteutetaan hybridinä. Osallistua voi etäyhteyden kautta (Zoom) sekä kampuksella. Etäosallistumiseen tarvitaan verkkoyhteys ja mikrofoni. Lähiopetus Metropolian Arabian kampuksella, osoite Hämeentie 135 D, 00560 Helsinki.

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Dates

29.8.2025 - 3.10.2025

Scope

5 cr

1 component

Code

AAH064

What you will learn

• Student understands the importance of social responsibility and is able to promote its implementation and the principles of sustainable development in organizations in their field. • Student understands the complexity and societal implications of the textile and clothing value chains. • Student identifies the tools and methods for assessing the different aspects of responsibility and understands how to utilize them in their field. • Student is able to assess different environmental systems. • Student understands the necessity of value chain transparency and data collection from the perspective of sustainable development and is able to argue for such a necessity. • Student expands their skills in measuring, evaluating and developing organizational responsibility.

Organiser

Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu

Contact details

avoinamk@metropolia.fi