Map to transform.

FashionSKILLS4Better has mapped the sustainable fashion ecosystem in Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay, contrasting it with experiences from Spain, Italy and Denmark.

The objective: to identify actors, capacities and good practices that allow building a greener, more digital and entrepreneurial professional training in fashion, and generate real two-way learning between Europe and Latin America.

Thee competencies for change.

Green: Circularity, waste reduction, sustainable materials, traceability and social responsibility.
Digital: Deal Product Contribution, traceability, digital narrative, e-commerce, 3D and AI.
Entrepreneurship: New business models, fair trade, cooperation, social impact and collective access to markets.
The study shows that there is no single model of sustainable transition: each territory brings different and complementary strengths.

Latam: Sustainability with roots. 

Latin America does not appear as a recipient of European knowledge, but as a source of innovation.
Its great strengths are in:
Ancestral knowledge + local fibers and materials + crafts + circularity + social impact + community.
Latin American models show that innovation does not necessarily mean more technology: it also means recovering knowledge, regenerating territories and building purposeful economic models.

Europe +Latam: Learning in both directions. 

Europe provides:
 biotechnology, industrial innovation, regulation, circular waste management, digitalisation and systemic models of circularity.
LATAM provides:
 ancestral innovation, regeneration of local fibers, territorial knowledge, community models and circularity with social impact.
Innovation arises when both knowledge dialogues.
The report thus questions an exclusively North-South transfer of knowledge and proposes a true two-way learning.

Stakeholder mapping report.

The document provides a comprehensive mapping of the sustainable fashion ecosystems across Latin America and selected European countries, establishing a bidirectional learning exchange between both regions. It analyzes mapped stakeholders through a structured taxonomy covering institutional landscapes, core operational activities, and performance across green, digital, and entrepreneurial competencies. Additionally, the report showcases a curated selection of international case studies, defining best practices through the lenses of territorial sustainable materials, ancestral innovation, and the decolonization of fashion design thinking