European Fashion Heritage Association
Budget
€422,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
0.2 FTE
EU Grants
€405,500
Mission & Goals
The European Fashion Heritage Association is a non-profit organisation established in 2014 in order to bring together and engage fashion institutions (brand archives, museums, research institutions, etc.) and creative industries in the valorisation and exploitation of fashion heritage online. The Association is organizing every year special events, like conferences and training workshops with the aim of raising competencies and skills of its members on crucial topics like the use of new technologies for the exploitation of fashion heritage, digitisation and metadata standards, and copyright issues. The Association is also actively participating in project proposals in EC programs (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Erasmus+) in order to continue offering state-of-the-art services to its members. The Association operates also in the broader landscape of European digital cultural heritage acting as a thematic aggregator in the European Data Space for Cultural Heritage.
EU Legislative Interests
- EC Recommendations on a common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage The European Fashion Heritage Association is currently member of the consortium running the European Data Space for Cultural Heritage in the framework of the Digital Europe Programme (DEP), with a particular attention to area 5 "Ensuring a wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society", pillar 5 "Education and culture".
Communication Activities
The European Fashion Heritage Association regularly promotes the European Data Space for Cultural Heritage and more widely the access and reuse of digital cultural heritage through its blog, its social media and its bi-weekly newsletter, reaching out to more than 50.000 followers worldwide. The Association also runs the fashion thematic aggregator and curates the Fashion Collection thematic portal on Europeana.eu. The European Fashion Heritage Association promotes also through its blog, its social media and its newsletter, the relevant activities of the institution members of the association.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Culture Action Europe (https://cultureactioneurope.org/) New European Bauhaus (https://new-european-bauhaus.europa.eu/about/official-partners_en) European Heritage Alliance (https://europeanheritagealliance.eu/members/)
Organisation Members
https://www.fashionheritage.eu/partners/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.