ARACNE

ARACNE project focuses on the cultural heritage of the European silk production and its preservation, protection, and valorization; it aims at reinvigorating traditional skills through the adaptive reuse of the common cultural and artistic legacy and at shaping a silk-linked European cultural identity. Literally and metaphorically a thread that has woven the European culture, silk greatly contributed to the development of the European economy and arts. The production and the past and present development of the silk sector can be again the common basis for a future European Silk Route intended as a cultural itinerary across Europe.

To create a wide and well-connected network that, starting from the historical path followed by Marco Polo in his travels to East, even includes the routes of production and commercialization of silk in Europe in the following centuries, we aim to:

• Bring back silk production in vogue by reconstructing a resilient and innovative silk ecosystem that retraces the concerned European countries and promotes traditions, architecture, and both tangible and intangible heritages. The consolidation of a European Silk Route will encourage links and shared activities among European cities and regions, specifically among museums, study, and research centers to strengthen the preservation and protection of their culture an promote innovations in production and trade.

• Contribute to improve skills and competitiveness of silk-related European Cultural and Creative Industries through the renewal, co-development and the implementation of human-centered and place-specific silk-based cultural products, processes and service innovations, leveraging on digital applications and cutting-edge technologies, to foster the transition to more sustainable business models, and promote economic and social growth, and strengthen the reputation of European countries abroad.

The project will also meet the Green Deal and New European Bauhaus macro-objectives.

General information

Project title: ADVOCATING THE ROLE OF SILK ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE AT NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN SCALE
Project acronym: ARACNE
Project duration: A 3-year EC Funded project, Start date: 1st March 2023
Project code: This project has received funding from the European HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions under grant agreement No 101095188
Topic identifier: HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01-02
Total project budget: € 2.999.634,00

Partners

CONSIGLIO PER LA RICERCA IN AGRICOLTURA E L'ANALISI DELL'ECONOMIA AGRARIA (CREA) - Italy
INIZIATIVA CUBE SRL (INI) – Italy
STATE SILK MUSEUM (SSM) – Georgia
NAUCHEN TSENTAR PO BUBARSTVO VRATSA (SCS) – Bulgaria
PIRAEUS BANK GROUP CULTURAL FOUNDATION (PIOP) – Greece
UNIVERZA V MARIBORU (UM) - Slovenia
NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS (NKUA) – Greece
INSTITUTO MURCIANO DE INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO AGRARIO Y MEDIOAMBIENTAL (IMIDA) – Spain
D'ORICA SRL SOCIETA' BENEFIT (DOR) - Italy
ASSOIE CHEMINS DE LA SOIE - DES CEVENNES AUX ALPUJARRAS (ASSOIE) - Spain
SERICYNE (SER) – France
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA (UNIPD) – Associated Partner - Italy
COUNCIL OF EUROPE - CONSEIL DE L'EUROPE (COE) – Associated Partner - France
MOUSEIO TECHNIS METAXIOU (ASMS) - Associated Partner - Greece