Project title: From community-based intangible cultural heritage to social entrepreneurship. VET programme in craftsmanship within the Neighborhood East (Moldova and Ukraine)
Project number: 101242732
Project acronym: CRAVT
Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2025-CB-VET
Topic: ERASMUS-EDU-2025-CB-VET-NE
Type of action: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants 
Granting authority: European Education and Culture Executive Agency 
Project duration: 1.01.2026 – 31.12.2028
Erasmus+ (CBHE) grant amount: 399 686.00 EUR

• Primary: VET institutions, cultural heritage institutions, cultural and creative industries SMEs, policymakers and local authorities, rural and underprivileged communities, NGOs focusing on education, cultural preservation, and refugee support, which can help disseminate and sustain project outcomes.
• Secondary (beneficiaries): young people and VET students, artisans and craftspeople, VET educators and trainers, craft researchers, Ukrainian refugees with craft skills

Grant holder:

ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA IASI (ARFI)

CAROL I 8, IASI, 700505, Romania 
https://acadiasi.org/ 

Project coordinator – Ioana Baskerville, Senior Researcher, ioana.baskerville@acadiasi.ro

• UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA (UCO), Spain
• RHE INITIATIVE - CULTURA E AMBIENTE PARA A VALORIZACAO DO TERRITORIO LDA (RHE), Portugal
• ON PROJECTS ADVISING SL (OnP), Spain
• Centrul National de Conservare si Promovare a Patrimoniului Cultural Imaterial (CNCP), Moldova
• Asociatia Obsteasca Femeia Rurala (AOFR), Moldova
• Institutia Publica Colegiul de Arte Nicolae Botgros din or. Soroca (CANB), Moldova
• Development Centre Democracy through Culture (DTC), Ukraine
• YURIY FEDKOVYCH CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (CHNU), Ukraine

Project goals and objectives:

The CRAVT project seeks to strengthen VET capacities in Moldova and Ukraine in the crafts sector for sustainable community-based economic opportunities. It will develop innovative curriculum and training materials on craft entrepreneurship and digital skills integration, tailored for VET providers, that will foster economic opportunities and social resilience in disadvantaged areas of the two countries. Given that traditional crafts involve environmentally friendly production processes and efficient resource management in connection with the Sustainable Development Goals, CRAVT supports meeting ecological commitments and the EU Green Agenda. It will also promote inclusivity and economic resilience by supporting underprivileged communities and Ukrainian refugees in Moldova and Romania to develop sustainable craft-based livelihoods. Furthermore, it will enhance cross-border collaboration and specialized knowledge exchange between VET institutions, research centers, SMEs, and NGOs from EU countries and the Eastern Neighborhood (Romania, Spain, Portugal, Moldova, and Ukraine).

• SO1: Enhance the knowledge base related to sustainable crafts as intangible cultural heritage in Moldova and Ukraine
• SO2: Enhance learning opportunities in VET for sustainable crafts and community-based entrepreneurship in Moldova and Ukraine
• SO3: Build capacities of VET trainers in the field of sustainable crafts and community-based entrepreneurship in Moldova and Ukraine
• SO4: Raise awareness on intangible cultural heritage safeguarding and the socio-cultural roles of craft-based economies.

Development Centre Democracy through Culture
https://demcult.org/en/  
Institutional Coordinator – Oleksandr Butsenko, demcult2017@gmail.com 

This project has received funding from the European Union (ERASMUS-EDU-2025-CB-VET) under grant agreement No 101242732