Ecodesign for Fashion

Course

The fashion industry is undergoing a profound transformation driven by environmental challenges, technological innovation, new consumer expectations, and a fast-evolving regulatory framework. The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the Digital Product Passport, and the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles are redefining how products, materials, and supply chains are designed and managed across their lifecycle. The Course Ecodesign for Fashion

 provides participants with the tools to navigate this complexity. Here are the program goals:

• Understand the environmental, technological, and regulatory shifts redefining fashion, and Ecodesign’s role as a systemic lens
• Analyse products, processes, and supply chains through Ecodesign, recognising interdependencies that influence sustainability
• Assess materials, impacts, circularity, and ESPR requirements, weighing the trade-offs in product development and business decisions
• Interpret the fashion ecosystem: stakeholders, material and information flows, and the dynamics linking product and supply chain
• Integrate sustainability, materials, lifecycle, circularity, traceability, and regulation into a systemic vision of innovation
• Apply Ecodesign principles to products, services, and business cases, formulating critical assessments to support informed decisions.

Across six modules and a final Ecodesign Lab, participants learn to interpret materials, impacts, circularity, traceability, and trade-offs through real cases. These are some of the main topics the program focuses on:

• The Fashion System and Regulation: How European regulation (EU Textile Strategy, ESPR, DPP, EPR) is driving systemic change through Ecodesign
• Materials, Impact, and Circularity: Life Cycle Thinking, material flows, and impact hotspots along the Fashion System value chain
• Decision-Making and Complexity: Trade-offs and interdependencies across design, sourcing, sustainability, and supply chain (real case studies)
• From Decisions to Organizational Change: How product-level decisions translate into broader strategies, processes, and business models within an Ecodesign perspective
• Applied Workshop: Hands-on systemic analysis of a real product, collection, or business case.

Download the Course fact sheet for accurate information on the training program.

Didactics

Attendance

At least 80% attendance is mandatory.

Didactic Modules

The Course lasts 44 hours (7 weeks), including 6 theoretical modules of 6 hours each and a final Ecodesign Lab of 8 hours. Classes are scheduled on days and at times that allow working professionals to attend.

Module 1 | 6h (online)

Understanding the Ecosystem

How the fashion system works and what forces are redefining its future. Stakeholders, processes, supply chains, and relationships. Sustainability as a systemic challenge. Ecodesign introduced as a systemic perspective.

Module 2 | 6h (online)

Regulation & Ecodesign

How European regulation is transforming fashion: EU Textile Strategy, ESPR, Digital Product Passport, and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). The role of Ecodesign as a systemic perspective on transformation.

Module 3 | 6h (online)

Consequences of Decisions

Reading relationships and the consequences of decisions. Materials and resource flows; Life Cycle Thinking and impact hotspots along the value chain. With Material Innovation Expert.

Module 4 | 6h (online)

Circularity & Traceability

How value is retained over time. Durability, repairability, reuse, recycling; traceability and the Digital Product Passport as tools for system knowledge. With Circular Fashion Brand + DPP Expert.

Module 5 | 6h (online)

Navigating Complexity

Decision-making under interdependencies, constraints, and trade-offs. Managing trade-offs; collaborating across design, sourcing, sustainability, and supply chain. Case studies and company testimonials.

Module 6 | 6h (online)

Decisions & Org Change

How product decisions translate into organisational change. From product decisions to strategies, processes, and models; managing fashion systems through the Ecodesign perspective.

Module 7 | 8h (online)

Workshop — Ecodesign Lab

Acting on the System. Systemic analysis of a product, collection, or business case through Ecodesign (part 1), then presentation, critical discussion, and assessment (part 2). Final assessment of the course.

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Upon completion of the program, participants will receive an Open Badge certifying the skills acquired. It is a recognized credential that adds tangible value to your professional profile and career path.

The Open Badge is awarded upon achieving the following requirements:

• Test: passing the assessment session
• Attendance: at least 80% attendance at the scheduled activities

The Open Badge is issued by: POLI.design, Center for Post-graduate Design Education, founded by Politecnico di Milano.

Admission

Requirements

The course is aimed at professionals with experience in the fashion, textile, design, product development, sustainability, innovation, marketing sectors or related fields.

• No specific technical skills are required
• Knowledge of English at least at B2 level is required, as the course will be delivered entirely in English
• A stable internet connection and a computer are required to take part in the online activities
• No specific software is required.

Applicants must submit the following documents by connecting to the LINK:

• Course application form
• Copy of Tax Code (Codice Fiscale) and ID document
• CV / Resume

Deadlines

Application deadline: 13/03/2027

Price

The total cost of the Course is 2.400,00 € (including VAT) for each student. This sum will be paid with a single payment upon signing the contract.

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