Ponta Delgada, 6 August 2020 The artisan from São Miguel, Isabel Silva Melo won the National Handicraft Award, in the Entrepreneurship New Talents category. The artisan, certified with the seal of the collective brand “Artesanato dos Açores” in the areas of Fish Scales, Lapinha Nativity Scenes and Figurative Ceramics, by the Regional Center for Handicrafts […]
Ponta Delgada, 6 August 2020 The Government of the Azores, through the Vice-Presidency, will support 139 projects in the area of regional handicrafts, with more than 283 thousand euros, which represent a global investment of more than 518 thousand euros. These projects, candidates for the support under the Incentive System for the Development of Handicrafts […]
Ponta Delgada, 20 July 2020 The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, decided to increase to 288 thousand euros the amount available for the approval of applications under the Incentive System for the Development of Handicrafts of the Azores (SIDART). This reinforcement of the available allocation for 2020 aims to support the Artisanal Productive Units (UPA) […]
Ponta Delgada, 17 July 2020 The Vice-Presidency of the Government, through the Regional Center for Handicrafts (CRAA), opens today the Azorean Handicraft Award ‘CoMtradição’ exhibition at the Whaling Industry Museum, in São Roque do Pico. The ‘CoMtradição’ Award emerges as a way to distinguish and promote the activities of entities or artisans who are known […]
Ponta Delgada, April 28, 2020 The Government of the Azores has created an exceptional measure to encourage the maintenance of handicraft companies in the Region, whose activity is being directly affected by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with the closure of its facilities, the decrease in the sale of their products and the […]
Ponta Delgada, February 6, 2020 The Vice-Presidency of the Government, through the Regional Center for Handicrafts (CRAA), will launch on Friday, February 7, at 5:30 pm, the products of the Creative Residence of Embroidery in Matiz at the ‘Azores in a Box’, in Ponta Delgada. This Residence, dedicated to the innovation and market repositioning of […]