Learning objectives

This course is included in the learning area on Food, Fashion and Cultural Heritage. It analyses the competences of the European Union that are relevant for the fashion industry, highlighting the economic, social and cultural value of “creative industries” in the EU legal order. Specific attention is devoted to the internal competences aimed at creating a common market framework for fashion products, as well as the EU initiatives at the international level in order to address the challenges of the globalisation in the fashion sector.
At the end of the course, the student will acquire the skills to understand, from a practical perspective, the relation between manufacturing, creativity and innovation (not only technological), and the necessary tools to promote the internationalisation of European fashion businesses.
The student will be able to address and resolve actual issues arising from the professional context in which he/she is going to operate, focusing his/her competences on the contractual compliance and the methods of alternative dispute resolution. The student will be able to verify the practical implications of the legal and regulatory framework, as well as to resolve practical cases, in both oral and written forms and also through team-work experiences, written-based exercises and the application of the method of Problem Based Solving (PBS), using an appropriate and specific vocabulary, developing proper reasoning and argumentation and reaching independent judgement. The teaching methodology is instrumental to continuous learning and knowledge updating.