CASCADE stands for Craft and Artisan Skills for Co-operative And Digital Enterprise and Innovation Gains, and has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

The current Covid-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on creative, craft and artisan producers as they often rely on live events, craft fairs or local markets for sales; our project will foster innovation to help this sector build resilience.

CASCADE aims:

• Enable micro entrepreneurs to support the growth of their businesses.
• Develop innovations in manufacture design and business models
• Enable micro entrepreneurs in the creative, craft and artisan sectors to share the intangible cultural heritage they carry with their wider communities.

Meet the team, the partners and project supporters who are involved with the CASCADE research project.

Our co-created training resources will be accessible, bite-sized, and easy to use. Co-created by our potential end-users.

The CASCADE research project is looking for people who will be able to take part in workshops, interviews and join an online Facebook community of practice (within a closed group), to explore how you build, manage and run your business. Our workshops aim to help you: gain knowledge and skills to support business growth, develop innovations in manufacture, design, and business model, and enable the sharing of cultural heritage.

We have project teams in a number of locations, including: Poland, Ireland, England, Bulgaria and Italy.