Project Title: IN HAND (Innovative Handicraft)
Programme: Culture
Coordinator: Fondazione di Firenze per l’Artigianato Artistico
Municipality of Florence: Co-promoter
Reference Unit: European Projects Unit
Budget: € 343.812,00
Status: Completed
Opening date: 01/12/2008
Closing date: 30/11/2010
Submitted: 2007
Partnerships: Scuola Professionale Edile di Firenze (Italy), Federazione
Compagnonnique des Metiers du Batiment (Limoges - France), Comune di
Bourgas (Bulgaria), Institut Gaudi de la Construccio (Barcellona - Spain),
Museu d'Historia de Sant Felieu de Guixols (Sant Felieu de Guixols - Spain),
Fundacio Privada Elisava Escola Universitaria (Barcellona - Spain).
Objectives and activities: The purpose of this project was to diminish
historical distances among the language of arts, design, crafts, and to develop
research and innovation. This was all to increase the added value of arts and
crafts, and to foster economic and cultural growth of the present day and for
the future.