On August 27th 2018, the EDHEC Family Business Centre organized the final dissemination event of ARTISAN Project at EDHEC Business School – Paris Campus. The event included testimonials from four members of artisan family businesses on the topic of “Transmission of Entrepreneurial Heritage and Traditional Craftsmanship in family business” (https://www.edhec.edu/fr/agenda/conference-artisan-mellerio).

The conference started with the intervention of Rania Labaki, coordinator of the ARTISAN Project in France, who provided us with an introduction on the transfer of entrepre...

On July 12th, 2018 the team of the University of Castilla-La Mancha organized an act of presentation of results and dissemination of the ARTISAN Project to an audience formed by entrepreneurs, founders, owners, managers, professionals, advisors, political leaders, social agents, successors, senior members and young people from family businesses of agro-tourism and artisan. The event took place in the Delegation of the Board of Communities of Castilla-La Mancha, in the city of Albacete (Spain).

Prof. Jiménez welcomed the attendees and presented the most relevant points o...

On 9th of July 2018 the final dissemination event of ARTISAN project was organized by the Department of Economics, Business and Statistics of the University of Palermo, at Palermo, Italy. The event was open to the general public, and took place at Sala delle Capriate, located in Via Roma 72, in Castelbuono (Palermo) with the participation of great number of participants interested to get information about the ARTISAN project, its objectives and its main results.

The main objective of this event was to present the main activities and results of ARTISAN Project (network o...

On 20th of June 2018, the Final Dissemination Event of ARTISAN took place at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Beira Interior in Portugal. The event was open to the general public.

The main objective of this event was to present the main activities and results of ARTISAN Project (network of Partners, ARTISAN Training Programme, ARTISAN CASEBOOK, Online Platform) to the target public: family business, students, graduates, professors, researchers, policy makers and associations. The final dissemination event in Portugal was coordinated by Profe...

On the 12th of June 2018 the ARTISAN Closing Summit took place in Cyprus, at UCLan Cyprus, Larnaka.

UCLan Cyprus and GrantXpert Consulting organised at the premises of UCLan Cyprus the "European Conference on Heritage Entrepreneurship: The Development of Artisan Family Firms across Generations".

During the conference a number of presentations took place aiming to inform the general public regarding the main activities and the main results developed during the life of ARTISAN project. Great emphasis was given on the ARTISAN Training Programme, the CASEBOOK which is consis...

Duca di Castelmonte is an agri-tourism located at the door of Trapani, on the  field that Curatolo family has been owning from 1700 till today.

The family business is at the third generation, with the junior one, say Silvia Stella and Marta Curatolo, owning shares 50-50 and the older generations collaborating in the daily activities of the business.

Duca di Castelmonte is a very innovative and customer-oriented family business, it offers typical agri-touristic services, such as restaurant and accommodation, plus something innovative that allows to positioning better than...

VICENTE CARRILLO is a family business dedicated to the manufacture, distribution and sale of high quality string instruments. Each guitar is unique, it is an artisan product, it is totally handmade, it incorporates more than 200 pieces. The origins of the company date back to the 18th century when Vicente Carrillo’s ancestors (the Alarcón, Carrillo and Leal families) began to manufacture guitars in the small town of Casasimarro. Vicente Carrillo Casas is the seventh generation of guitar makers. Vicente has continued with the legacy he received from his father and he ha...

ARTISAN Closing Summit

Tuesday 12th of June, UCLan Cyprus, Larnaka, Cyprus

UCLan Cyprus and GrantXpert Consulting in collaboration with Artisan Consortium of partners would like to invite you to the European Conference on Heritage Entrepreneurship: The Development of Artisan Family Firms across Generations, which will take place on the 12th of June 2018 at UCLan Cyprus, Larnaka – Cyprus.

The conference is part of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project for Adult Education entitled “ARTISAN”:  Aspiring entrepreneurial families to perpetuate cultural business across gene...

Quinta Ribeira de Alpreade is an artisanal family business with a long tradition in cheese production. The company has a history full of successes over three generations. Initially, the company produced only cheese and sausages, but more recently with the expansion of the business it has started to commercialize olive oil and olives and organizes visits to the farm for Portuguese schools and foreign and national tourists, in order to promote the cultural tradition and demonstrate production using artisanal methods without additives. Therefore, the extended case study a...

Quinta do Crestelo is an agro tourism company established in Seia, on the slopes of the Serra da Estrela mountain. The company provides its guests with a diversity of activities, namely nature and well-being experiences, walking routes, outdoor experiences with specialized instructors, gastronomic experiences at its restaurant “São Martinho”, and the...