Craft + living heritage
Traditional knowledge, skills transmission, materials, making practices, regional ecosystems and the structures that keep craft culturally strong and economically viable.
SPECIALIST FIELD
Australian culture and production, positioned for Europe.
A focused advisory practice spanning cultural heritage, craftsmanship, textiles, fashion, provenance, circularity and the industrial systems that turn material knowledge into economic value.
01 / THE FIELD
Cultural heritage and the cultural and creative industries form a dedicated intervention area within Horizon Europe Cluster 2. The 2027 programme places craft, fashion, textiles, circular design and manufacturing in the same innovation frame.
Cluster 4 provides the complementary industrial route for advanced fibres, processing, textile manufacture and scale. Together, these routes create a practical European pathway for Australian cultural knowledge, materials research, regional production and provenance infrastructure.
European Commission cultural heritage + CCI area ↗Textiles + fashion + manufacturing
Advanced fibres, spinning, weaving, knitting, finishing, circular design, advanced production, fashion value chains and the Australian “missing middle”.
Explore this pathway ↗Provenance + traceability
Origin evidence, chain of custody, certification, Digital Product Passports and data systems that connect cultural value with circular production and market trust.
Place + protected value
Regional identity, producer groups, geographical indications and emerging craft and industrial GI systems as foundations for research, policy and ecosystem development.
02 / TWO DIRECT ROUTES
Culture and industry strengthen the same value chain.
The strongest proposal selects the route that matches the core research problem, then builds the complementary work around it.
Culture, creativity and circular practice
Craft-led innovation, cultural heritage, fashion and textiles as CCIs, circular design, skills, business models, community participation and living knowledge.
Open the 2026–2027 work programme ↗Materials, processing and manufacturing
Renewable and recovered fibres, spinning, woven and knitted cloth, finishing, quality, durability, industrial validation, traceability and commercial scale-up.
Open the 2026–2027 work programme ↗03 / AUSTRALIAN SECTOR EVIDENCE
The Australian case is already measurable.
Mapping the Australian Crafts Sector 2026 frames craftsmanship as a national skills, production and innovation system. Its findings create a concrete evidence base for international research collaboration.
Working figures from the forthcoming national mapping report.
SECTOR GROUNDING
Research routes grow from real sector work.
Australian Crafts Alliance and Creative Women’s Association bring practitioner networks, regional production, provenance, women’s creative enterprise and national sector development into the research frame. Horizon Culture AU translates that capability into consortium roles, work packages and international partnerships.
Shape your cultural, textile or manufacturing capability into a European consortium role.
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