Accelerator4Crafts Residency Programme

Accelerator4Crafts Residency Programme

🥁 Open Call: Accelerator4Crafts International Residencies
📍 Destinations: Iceland, Greece, Romania, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland & The Netherlands.
📅 Deadline: 13 March 2026
🚨 Up to 1900€ for travel and accomodation

Open to craftspeople and creative entrepreneurs, the Tracks4Crafts residency programme Accelerator4Crafts Residency offers financial support for travel and accomodations for two-week placements. This initiative connects heritage with future-facing practice, creating a funded space for experimentation and exchange.

Applicants may choose from eight pilot sites across Europe, each offering a distinct focus and working environment, on everything from heritage silk preservation to robotic 3D metal printing:

🐑 Icelandic Textile Center (Iceland)
Research and material sampling using local wool, hemp and fish leather.
🕸️ The Art of Silk Museum (Greece)
Preservation, education and research in traditional silk production.
👕 Semne Cusute (Romania)
Heritage preservation centred on the Romanian traditional shirt and collective making.
🍯 Artex - Centro per l'Artigianato Artistico e Tradizionale della Toscana (Italy)
Ceramics-focused residencies with a strong emphasis on business development for craft SMEs.
💠 Bokrijk (Belgium)
An open-air museum specialising in historical construction techniques and restoration.
⚙️ Onlfait (Switzerland)
A FabLab environment applying digital tools to craft, repair and making.
🪲 Waag Futurelab (Netherlands)
A research institute working at the intersection of science, technology and bio-design.
🤖 MX3D(Netherlands)
A pioneer in robotic wire arc additive manufacturing and large-scale metal printing.

Participants are expected to document their process, whether through a physical outcome, film, written reflection or other form of shared learning.

🛎️ Accelerator4Crafts Platform
The open call coincides with the launch of Accelerator4Crafts, a new digital platform designed as a long-term resource for the craft sector. The platform hosts diagnostic tools, reports and community spaces for peer learning, and also serves as the application portal for the Tracks4Crafts residencies.

🔗 Find out more & apply: tracks4crafts.eu/blog/n11-44/accelerator4crafts-878

Tracks4Crafts, connecting 15 partners, including the ECA, is an EU Horizon project that examines and transforms the transmission of traditional crafts knowledge (TCK).