ARTIFACTORY

The main aims and fields of expertise comprise: -YOUTH WORK: to involve youth into non-formal learning and international mobility opportunities; to empower and support youth to act responsibly and creatively for their communities and heritage; to improve their life and professional skills through cultural and arts experiences - REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ARTIFACTORY delivers projects that demonstrate the educational value of culture and the arts through first-hand experiences with audiences at heritage places. ARTIFACTORY works to raise awareness of communities, professionals and policy makers on the socio-economic potential of cultural heritage. -CULTURE & CCI: linking the onsite experience to digital heritage by exploiting the powers of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) is a particularity of ARTIFACTORY, proven with awarded projects. -CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION & TRAINING: ARTIFACTORY develops training for heritage and tourism professionals to help them adapt to the constantly changing knowledge ecosystem, and evolve the individual skills to improve their professional statuses, and is very actively involved in the tourism guide education. ARTIFACTORY considers culture and the arts as the main lever for personal, collective and social development and a driver for citizen education and conflict resolution. Therefore it works to stimulate projects, initiatives and investments by involving and engaging the youth at grass roots level. It involves the youth into informal learning and international mobility opportunities, empowering the latter to act responsibly and creatively for their community heritage. EXPERIENCE: The founding members of ARTIFACTORY are involved in more than 20years in the design and implementation of EU and international funded projects in the domain of culture, digital heritage and the arts, mobility and academic research.