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Safeguarding Heritage Cultivating the Future

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 17, 2026

In January 2025, the EUIPO convened a landmark conference on geographical indications under the theme Safeguarding our Heritage, Cultivating our Future — bringing agricultural and craft and industrial GIs together for the first time in a unified legal field. EU Regulation 2023/2411 is fully operational.

Tags ARC research, AU-EU Free Trade Agreement, Australian craft economy, Australian Crafts Alliance, CIGI, craft and industrial products, craft skills, craft workforce, CWA

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What Happens When You Certify It?

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 16, 2026

Italy’s certified Made in Italy economy reached €643 billion in exports in 2025. Harris Tweed’s statutory certification supports 520 jobs and £16.8 million in GVA from a single product on a remote island archipelago. The Creative Women’s Association examines what certification actually does to an economy — and what it would mean for Australia’s $19.2 billion craft sector.

Tags ARC research, AU-EU Free Trade Agreement, Australian craft economy, Australian Crafts Alliance, CIGI, craft and industrial products, craft skills, craft workforce, CWA, DFAT, geographical indications

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The Numbers Are In

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 15, 2026

A landmark ARC-funded study confirms the Australian craft economy employs 116,538 people and generates $19.2 billion in gross value added — larger than the sports economy. The Creative Women’s Association examines what the data confirms, what it doesn’t yet build, and why the infrastructure gap it identifies is exactly what CWA and the Australian Crafts Alliance are working to close.

Tags ARC research, AU-EU Free Trade Agreement, Australian craft economy, Australian Crafts Alliance, CIGI, craft and industrial products, craft skills, craft workforce, CWA, DFAT, geographical indications, industrial craft, Luckman Tower UniSA, makers, making in Australia, provenance, Southern Cross Registry, sovereign manufacturing