Introducing the Next Gen Assembly Programme
Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), has launched the search for seven leading Next Gen voices in the fashion industry to join the Next Gen Assembly, in collaboration with Academic Partner, London College of Fashion’s (LCF) Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) via the Fashion Values Programme.
Through the newly launched Next Gen Assembly programme, GFA Academy and CSF will support seven selected candidates alongside the student winner of the Fashion Values Challenge, in developing advocacy and communications skills to foster their development as sustainability changemakers. Sustainable Fashion Blogger, Photojournalist and Labour Rights Activist, Aditi Mayer, will act as an Ambassador for the programme.
Participants will then play an integral role as the radical voices of Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023, with a fundamental focus on purposeful storytelling.
What does the programme entail?
The selected group will participate in at least two collaborative workshops with GFA and CSF and complete the Fashion Values: Cultures course. The first of which will focus on community building and understanding candidates’ aspirations in order to co-create goals and methodologies for achieving change with the programme. The second workshop will centre around empowering and coaching the group on how to be successful advocates for the fashion community and thoroughly prepare them for their roles at Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen in June 2023.
At the Summit, each individual will be assigned an on-site industry mentor and be meaningfully involved in a number of activities and networking opportunities throughout the event. The chosen candidates can expect to interact with content from esteemed global leaders, changemakers and thinkers under the Summit’s theme, ‘Ambition to Action’. Following the Summit, the stories of the Next Gen Assembly members will be collated and communicated throughout 2023.
Travel and accommodation will be covered by Global Fashion Agenda for the selected participants.
Who is eligible to apply?
The programme is seeking applications from talented students, recent graduates (having graduated in the last two years) and/or young professionals from diverse locations and fields of interest including design, media and communications, business and technology.
Applications are open now until 12 April 2023, and those interested are required to provide a written statement and short video with their application.
Find out more and apply to the programme here.