ECHOES (2024 - 2027)
- Cineál Tionscadail
- Heritage, traditional craft
- Teideal
- ECHOES (2024 - 2027)
- Release Date
- 2024
- Irish Partner
- Dry Stone Wall Association of Ireland
- Co-Partners
- Lead partner: Dragodid, Croatia
- Boulouki, Greece
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects (Small)
- Year Funded
- 2024
- Funding Amount
- €199,272
ECHOES - Enhancing Cultural Heritage Skills Across Europe (2024 - 2027) targets cultural heritage experts with the goal of preserving, advancing, and promoting European cultural diversity.
This initiative unfolds through activities categorised into Twinning & Cultural Activities (TCAs), Co-creation Sessions (CCSs), and Capacity-Building Workshops (CBWs), all aimed at enhancing heritage events and cultivating specialised skills.
ECHOES integrates green thinking, inclusivity, and gender balance in its implementation. The partnership ensures responsiveness to the genuine needs of grassroots heritage organisations. This commitment, coupled with a nuanced approach to inclusivity and environmental consciousness, positions ECHOES to make a substantial impact, fostering collaboration, sustainability, and inclusivity in European cultural heritage practices.
‘The Creative Europe grant has been a very significant step forward for DSWAI. It allowed us to contract professionals to assist with the project and gave us the opportunity to engage in cultural exchanges and workshops with other European organisations with similar objectives to DSWAI. The cultural aspect in terms of knowledge transfer in both directions has been very powerful. Our craft members who participated in the cultural exchange in Croatia learned so much about dry stone techniques. We also realised that our own knowledge brought a valuable skillset which we were delighted to share. We see significant potential for the growth of our organisation through further programmes such as ECHOES where we can grow our capacity, share and glean knowledge from international exchanges, and expand the connections between the members of the European dry stone construction communities.’ Dry Stone Wall Association Of Ireland
Irish Partner
The Dry Stone Wall Association of Ireland (DSWAI) was founded in 2009 and is a registered charity in Ireland. The aim is to create an awareness of the need for preserving the craft of 'dry' stone building in Ireland. In doing so the association hopes to advance the education of the public and professionals in the knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the craft of building with stone, particularly the craft of ‘dry’ stone construction. One of their goals is the formation and growth of a community of members both amateur and professional, which involves itself in dry stone projects.