The World Crafts Council ( International )

was founded in 1964 and is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organisation recognized by .UNESCO. 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.
World Crafts Council is composed of five Regions:
Africa,.Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.

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 :

  • promoting the design-led crafts and applied arts in Europe
  • building up a network of contacts in these fields
  • collecting and spreading information thereon. (see also Activities)

It achieves this :

  • by publishing directories and listings of the most important crafts and applied arts organisations, institutions, galleries, and magazines (it also circulates an information exchange newsletter)
  • by giving prizes, such as the WCC-Europe Award for Contemporary Crafts (since 1992), the WCC-Europe EUNIQUE Award for Contemporary Crafts (since 2010), the
    European Prize for Contemporary Art- and Design-led Crafts (in 1998) and the European Prize for Applied Arts (since 2009).

It presently has members in the following European countries :

  • Albania,
  • Armenia
  • Belgium (Flanders),
  • Belgium (Wallonia/Brussels),
  • Denmark,
  • Finland,
  • France,
  • Germany,
  • Greece,
  • Ireland,
  • Israel,
  • Italy,
  • Kazakhstan,
  • Luxembourg,
  • Malta,
  • Netherlands,
  • Norway,
  • Poland,
  • Slovak Republic,
  • Spain,
  • Sweden,
  • Switzerland,
  • Turkey,
  • United Kingdom