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Advocating the role of Silk Art

and Cultural Heritage at National and European scale

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This project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement No 101095188

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The Objectives
Create a wide and well-connected Silk Innovation Ecosystem that, starting from the historical path followed by Marco Polo in his travels to East, also includes the routes of production and commercialization of silk in Europe in the following centuries.
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Enhancement of knowledge and memory for the renaissance of a European Silk Innovation Ecosystem
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Co-creation of human-centred and place specific creative silk-based solutions leveraging on digital technologies
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Implementation of innovative strategies, governance and financing models for the involved organisations
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Support the establishment of a European Silk Route, based on the tangible and intangible silk cultural heritage
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Raise awareness of ARACNE results, impacts and expectation for the constitution of a European Silk Route
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Enhance the European cultural identity and strengthen European competitiveness for a resilient society
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Contribution to the European Green Deal, the New European Bauhaus and the Sustainable Development Goals
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The project

ARACNE project focuses on the cultural heritage of the European silk production and its preservation, protection and valorisation

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.

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International partners

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Associated partners

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A young start-up makes a living doing what they love with silk in Calabria
Nido di Seta
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Clara and Séricyne
Séricyne
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The story of the man who wants to save the mulberry trees
Mauro Rizzotti
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Highlights

"The production and the past and present development of the silk sector in the ARACNE Consortium countries represent the common thread for the future “European Silk Route” as a cultural itinerary across Europe, to boost the European values in relation to the silk arts and for the benefit, prosperity, peace of our societies.

Silk Map

Discover the European Silk Route

The Silk Innovation Ecosystem starting from the historical routes of production and commercialization of silk in Europe across ages, with the aim to build a European silk route as a cultural itinerary
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News and Events

Latest from our partners

Meetings, reports, events and up-to-date information about constitution of a European Silk Route.
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MAY
Il CREA di Padova al Food&Science Festival di Mantova
Piazza Leon Battista Alberti – Mantova
May 21, 2023
09:00 PM
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