European Crafts Alliance
Budget
€25 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
0.75 FTE
EU Grants
€247,500
Mission & Goals
ECA is a non-profit network organisation that promotes knowledge sharing, growth, preservation and valorisation of crafts. Working in collaboration with our member craft organisations from across the European continent, ECA implements a spectrum of events, projects and programmes which highlight our mission to elevate awareness of crafts as an integral part of society’s cultural, social and economic wellbeing. Furthermore, ECA advocates for crafts and craftspeople through partnerships in international cooperation programmes; while spreading information across a large network of member entities and engaging with policy at international, official, political and administrative levels. Recognising that crafts are everywhere, is key to our work: in education, economy, culture, heritage, sustainable development and beyond, crafts are visible and play a vital role in the human story.
EU Legislative Interests
Creative Europe programme; New European Bauhaus; Geographical Indicators; European Year of Skills; Green Deal; Europe’s programme for small and medium-sized enterprises; Digital Europe; EU Directive of FCM (Food Container Materials);
Communication Activities
- Developing the ECA website as a resource about craft across Europe. - Developing a series of webinars on topics related to the New European Bauhaus initiative which are relevant to the crafts sector: sustainability, circular economy, digitalisation, innovation and experimentation etc. - Collecting data and information from our membership around the economical value of crafts and the impact on societies, as well as other relevant topics as geographical indications for craft and industrial products or the EU Directive of FCM (Food Container Materials) to draft policy papers. - Promoting an in-depth knowledge of the specific needs, characteristics, and vulnerabilities of the EU craft sector all along the value chain, through research, mapping with a strong focus on gender equity, diversity, social cohesion; and ongoing and close dialogue with craft stakeholders and other policy sectors (education, youth, science, research and innovation, environment, employment, social affairs, tourism). - Collecting and disseminating sectoral data which will result in surveys to show the critical challenges facing craft in Europe: The European market for crafts; Analysis of the Resilience of the Crafts Sector; Research on business and production opportunities; Analysis of the integration of digital design and fabrication technologies on the crafts sector; European crafts sector and the Creative Europe cross-cutting priorities. - Working with members to develop the ‘European Craft Days’ initiatives to promote the value of crafts.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
ECA is signatory of the following: UN Global Compact Pact for Skills Global Call to Action Culture at COP28
Organisation Members
Arts Council Azerbaijan Mad’in Europe BeCraft Cyprus Handicraft Service Danish Crafts & Design Association Arts & Crafts Association Bornholm (ACAB) The Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo Ateliers d’Art de France Institut National Des Metiers D’Art (INMA) Georgian Heritage Crafts Association Georgian Arts and Culture Centre Bundesverband Kunsthandwerk Deutschland (BK) Association of Hungarian Folk Artists / Népművészeti Egyesületek Szövetsége Design and Crafts Council Ireland Centro per l’Artigianato Artistico e Tradizionale della Toscana (ARTEX) Ente Culturale Operae Milò Fondo Plastico Association De Mains De Maîtres Luxembourg Malta Crafts Foundation Crafts Council Nederland Norwegian Crafts Norske Kunsthåndverkere Stowarzyszenie Nów. Nowe Rzemiosło ADXTUR Portugal Centro de Formação Profissional para o Artesanato e Património (CEARTE) Centre for Folk Art Production (UL’UV) Fundación EOI – Fundesarte Consorci de Comerc, Artesania I Moda de Catalunya Oficio y Arte European Grouping of Cities of Ceramics (AEuCC) LOEWE Foundation Asociación TransfoLAB BCN Asociación para la Creación Textil The Swedish Crafts Centre (KHVC) The Artist's Association of Sweden Michelangelo Foundation Handicraft Chamber of Ukraine Craft Scotland The Crafts Council UK Full updated list can be found here: https://europeancraftsalliance.org/network/
Additional Information
Project number: 101053439 Project name: CRAFTING THE FUTURE Project acronym: CRAFTING Call: CREA-CULT-2021-NET Topic: CREA-CULT-2021-NET Type of action: CREA Lump Sum Grants Granting authority: European Education and Culture Executive Agency Grant managed through EU Funding & Tenders Portal: Yes (eGrants) Project starting date: fixed date: 1 May 2022 Project end date: 30 April 2025 Project duration: 36 months Project number: 101186080 Project name: Promoting, supporting and connecting the European craft sector Project acronym: CRAFTSNET Call: CREA-CULT-2024-NET Topic: CREA-CULT-2024-NET Type of action: CREA Lump Sum Grants Granting authority: European Education and Culture Executive Agency Grant managed through EU Funding & Tenders Portal: Yes (eGrants) Project starting date: fixed date: 1 May 2025 Project end date: 30 April 2029 Project duration: 48 months
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.