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The tools and support on this site are here to help you choose the most suitable guides, frameworks, and support materials for each situation. They’re designed to make it easier for you to tailor your stakeholder engagement, gather accurate data, and report your progress with confidence.
If you have a toolkit, guide, resource or training programme that you would like to see included, please get in touch at contact@greenccircle.eu or use our submission form.
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Craft Council maker support resources
There are many interesting resources on the website of the Craft Council, including topics like circular economy or sustainable resource use. Another example is this blogpost? with tips how to grow a sustainable craft business; https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/sector-support/craft-business-resources/7-top-tips-for-growing-a-sustainable-craft-business
https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/sector-support/craft-business-resources
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Market for Craft Data Tool
(All the craft related submissions are mostly related to economic sustainability btw.)
'Discover and analyse data from 5,300 respondents in the biggest survey on the craft market in over a decade. The Market for Craft data tool is an open-access dashboard available online at no cost to independent makers, studios and collectives, shops and galleries, and curious consumers. Using the data tool’s tabs and filters, you can gain a detailed insight into your customer's demographics, behaviours, motivations, and barriers — helping inform business strategies for 2021 and beyond.' (quote from website)
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Geschäftsmodelle neu denken
E-learning course: Six steps to a digital business model
The Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Handwerk has developed a learning pathway for digital business models, designed to help craft businesses critically examine their business models in an engaging way and develop new and interesting offerings for their customers.
It is interactive at some parts and very low-treshold :)
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Craftsman Business Guidebook
'USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO DEVELOP A CRAFT BUSINESS IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES' (subtitle in doc), highlighting Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Italy portugal and Romania.
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Geschäftsmodellentwicklung leicht gemacht: Von der Idee zum Geschäftsmodell
A short folder in German explaining business modelling.
Not sure if relevent, it is a rather short handout.
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Digital enabler for Older Craftmen’s Businesses – Learning Module
Part of the learning modules of the project Crafting 50 and beyond.
quote from module:
'Aim:
Introduction to the essential features and
strategies of crafts companies.
Objectives:
1. Develop skills for the building own
brand;
2. Develop skills for pricing and selection
of pricing strategies;
3. Develop skills for the elaboration of a
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Europeana Impact Playbook
The Impact Playbook is an intuitive, flexible and adaptable resource that you can follow from the start to the finish or apply in your own way. It has been developed so that you will:
Feel more confident to lead an impact assessment
Feel comfortable introducing colleagues to impact assessment
Be able to help others in their impact practice
Better convince and communicate the benefits of an impact approach
Plan and design future projects with your impact for your stakeholders in mind
Write better funding bids, strategies and plans (organisational impact)quote from website: https://www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/en/news/discover-the-europeana-impact-playbook?__cf_chl_tk=rIYhQgbyQNFc1O79GA3_K_YsjfzczFXZFxY1HgAeZOQ-1781092624-1.0.1.1-VVOlhj5LLgjvoTdk5QWrp2VcAYOMXGub_MIVDDyxcH8
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Outputs of Creasus projects (adjust)
The link provides access to the page with the results coming from the Creasus Horizon project. Not everything is available yet, but the Sustainability assessment model for CCSIs (first version), Actions for sustainable transformation of CCSIs and Sustainability Funding Schemes Toolkit are. They are in report form and not super (not-academic) user-friendly but they provide a lot of info on sustainability tailored to the CCS. Maybe the different reports could get different links, also to allow for better searchability in the hub?
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Challenges & prospects for Greek handicrafts
This IME GSEVEE briefing paper, authored by Angeliki Demertzi and published in September 2023, provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the Greek handicraft sector. Tracing the history of crafts from antiquity to the modern era, the text outlines how urbanization and industrialization pushed traditional folk art into the margins. Today, the sector stands at a critical transition point. While global trends like the 'Slow Craft Movement' and ethical consumerism renew consumer interest, Greek crafters face severe institutional voids following the dissolution of EOMMEX, alongside rising energy costs and steep competition from cheap imports.
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Greek Handicrafts: Existing Situation, Challenges and Prospects
This IME GSEVEE report edited by Panagiotis Litsas analyzes the challenges facing Greek handicrafts, such as fragmentation and the lack of support following the 2012 EOMMEX dissolution. It proposes a strategic modernization focusing on a National Crafts Registry, digital tools, and regional educational hubs.
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Elma.live
Elma-live is a digital platform for sustainable development in the live music and other performing arts industry. It is a digital data bank, planning tool and community platform, aimed at providing actors in the live music industry with information, tools and support in promoting sustainable development. Elma is based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which cover all aspects of sustainable development. The platform includes learning materials, a roadmap tool for building, monitoring and reporting on your own sustainability programme, and a Co2 Calculator for measuring and monitoring the carbon footprint of activities, tailored to meet the needs of live music and performing arts. (The Co2-calculator is currently available only in Finnish.)
The toolkit caters to music, festivals and performing arts.
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Innovation Cook Book
The Innovation Cook Book is a practical guide developed within the Label4Future project that shows how creative collaboration can drive circular and sustainable innovation in industry. Rather than presenting theory, it translates real experiences from six SME–artist collaborations into clear, step-by-step “recipes” that help companies, creatives, and policymakers work together more effectively.
Built on hands-on experimentation in sectors such as plastics and materials, the Cook Book explains how to frame challenges, match the right partners, prototype ideas, handle ownership and value creation, and turn creative exploration into tangible results. Alongside tools, checklists, and reflections, it also highlights what worked, what failed, and what was learned in real-world conditions.
The Innovation Cook Book is designed for SMEs looking to innovate sustainably, creative professionals working with industry, and policymakers aiming to embed creativity into regional innovation strategies. It is both a guide and an invitation: to adapt these methods, apply them in new contexts, and use creative collaboration as a repeatable pathway toward systemic, circular change.