The World Crafts Council-Europe promotes the design-led crafts and applied arts in Europe.

<body> <p> <TABLE border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <H1> The World Crafts Council-Europe promotes the design-led crafts and applied arts in Europe.</H1> <H2>The World Crafts Council International</H2> <p> The World Crafts Council International is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in 1964 recognized by UNESCO.</p> <p> Its general objective is to strengthen the status of crafts as a vital part of cultural and economic life, to promote a sense of fellowship among the craftspeople of the world and to offer them encouragement, help and advice.</p> <p> The World Crafts Council–Europe being one of the WCC’s five regional branches (i. e.: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America), shares the same objectives and works at implementing projects by :</p> <ul> <li>promoting the design-led crafts and applied arts in Europe</li> <li>building up a network of contacts in these fields</li> <li>collecting and spreading information thereon.</li> </ul> <h3>It presently has members in the following European countries:</h3> <ul> <li>Albania,</li> <li>Austria,</li> <li>Belgium (Flanders),</li> <li>Belgium (Wallonia/Brussels),</li> <li>Denmark,</li> <li>Finland,</li> <li>France,</li> <li>Germany,</li> <li>Greece,</li> <li>Ireland,</li> <li>Israel,</li> <li>Italy,</li> <li>Kazakhstan,</li> <li>Luxembourg,</li> <li>Malta,</li> <li>Netherlands,</li> <li>Norway,</li> <li>Poland,</li> <li>Romania,</li> <li>Russian Federation,</li> <li>Slovak Republic,</li> <li>Spain,</li> <li>Sweden,</li> <li>Switzerland,</li> <li>Turkey,</li> <li>United Kingdom.</li> </ul> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><A title="World Crafts Council-Europe - World Crafts Council-Europe : promote the design-led crafts and applied arts in Europe." href="http://www.wcc-europe.org/introduction.htm">World Crafts Council-Europe - World Crafts Council-Europe promote the design-led crafts and applied arts in Europe.</A></TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <p></p><noembed> <a href="http://www.wcc-europe.org/world-crafts-council-europe.htm" target="_blank">The <b>World Crafts Council-Europe</b> promote the design-led crafts and applied arts in Europe.</a></noembed> </body>