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Crafting Europe
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Applicant: CRAFTS COUNCIL OF IRELAND LIMITED, KILKENNY, Irland
Partners: Artex s xons r.l, Florence, Italy; Crafts Council, London, UK; LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Limerik, Ireland; CENTRO DE FORMACAO PROFISSIONAL PARA O ARTESANATO E PATRIMONIO, COIMBRA, Portugal; FUNDACIÓN ESCUELA DE ORGANIZACIÓN INDUSTRIAL, Madrid, Spain; Crafts Council Nederland, Utrecht, Netherlands; Handicraft Chamber of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; Georgian Arts and Culture Center, Tbilisi, Georgia.The project Crafting Europe (CE) starts from the need to build capacity within the crafts sector across Europe. The core focus of the CE project aims to address systemic challenges identified through findings from surveys undertaken to assess the needs of the crafts sector across 17 European Countries. Findings highlight four core systemic challenges for the sector as follows:
Value: Detailed analysis and research into the cultural impact and economic value of the craft sector within Europe has not been undertaken. This leads to a knowledge, value and awareness gap both within the sector itself and at local, regional, national and European level.
Identity, Definition and Visibility: A key issue is the need for a common, and strengthened, identity and definition within the craft sector in order to disseminate a clear and cohesive understanding of European Craft that will increase visibility and awareness across cultural and creative communities, to the wider public and within public and legislative bodies.
Education and Training: Attracting and engaging future generations of skilled craft practitioners is a significant challenge as is the preservation of key craft skills (transmission of knowledge) and the adoption and use of new technologies.
Infrastructure and Supports: There is a clear need for improved access to supports and infrastructure including finance, training in professional practice and commercialisation and opportunities to exhibit and trade craft products across multiple channels.
The focus of CE is on Capacity Building. The project addresses the following Creative Europe priorities and will align its activities to strengthen the financial capacity of creative SMEs and organisations through transnational co-operation and policy development for the sector. Specific priorities include:
-Support transnational policy co-operation leading to policy development
-Foster capacity building through innovative approaches
-Enabling new skill learning
