We RECHARGE Serfenta!

Do we need to Recharge Serfenta? Well, from time to time – yes! International cooperations are really important for our Association. Serfenta is taking a part in the ReCharge project this year. The plan is to develop our work with heritage We want to propose the solutions, which can give our Business Model – wider, better, to the other heritage areas.

Working with mentors

Our mentor in the process is Eesti Meremuuseum from Estonia, and this month the experts Teele Siig and Sander Jurisson have visited us in Cieszyn. We hade a great time full of brainstorms and discussions. And of course, a time for sightseeing in our town on the border PL/CZ.

Serfenta on the RECHARGE meeting

Urszula Szwed represented us in Warszawa on the meeting with the whole RECHARGE project’s team. We are happy that we are a part of this project! Stay tuned, because the results are going to be spectacular.

Presenting solutions designed for Cultural Heritage – June 2024

At first, we took a part as an expert in the Masovian Heritage Forum – the III rd edition. Paulina presented our (awarded by Europa Nostra) Craft Revitalisation Model. We have developed our solutions for the basketry craft, but the model can be applied more broadly to other areas of cultural heritage. Therefore, on its basis, we can design services based on heritage and propose social innovations.

As the second activity, Urszula Szwed took a part in the event Heritage Innovators Day. Her focus was to share the know-how, examples of designed solutions and social innovations, based on Model of Craft Revitalisation by Serfenta. Check the presentation here:

And also we took a part in PICOBELLO Piloting COllaborative ways to Better Living Locally project During the study visit in Spain – Ferrol in Galicia. Paulina Adamska presented our new ideas, which we call 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗟 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯 and our Business Model. SHIL is a group of experts from a field of culture, business, design, heritage, and crafts. Thanks to our Marshal Office of Silesian Voivodeship we could join this study visit in Spain and meet the new partners from Spain, France, Finland, Latvia, and Greece! And of course it is good to be a part of a huge European heritage family.

𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗟 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯

𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗟 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯 is a group of experts from a field of culture, business, design, heritage, and crafts which we create with 7 brilliant women! Together in the RECHARGE project, we have the possibility to design some new solutions together. We have a few meetings behind us, and it’s a new quality of work in Serfenta! This is not the end of our work, we still have some planned meetings.

The group create:
Paulina Adamska – cultural anthropologist, Serfenta,
Łucja Cieślar – communication specialist, Serfenta,
Dr. Luba Trojan – cultural anthropologist, Cieszyn Castle, University of Silesia, WSB University,
Dr. Joanna Brasset – anthropologist, entrepreneur, Studio intO,
Dr. Karolina Kania – cultural anthropologist, UX researcher, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business
Maria Garus – project and social innovation specialist, University of Silesia,
Urszula Szwed – expert in commercialization of the third sector, culture, and social economy

About Serfenta

Serfenta has worked for over 16 years in the field of modern and business approach to basketry craft. The experts who create the organization, Paulina Adamska and Łucja Cieślar (together with business advisor Urszula Szwed) designed their own Business Model “Innovation model of Craft Revitalisation”. It helps to carry out the activities. Their goals include sharing, promoting, and managing knowledge about the intangible heritage of basketry. Serfenta’s activities cover workshops and expert events; talks about the meeting point between cultural anthropology, craft, and market; and bringing the craft experience to everyone. They teach those who then teach others to spread the knowledge and skills of the basketry.

Serfenta is one of three Polish NGOs that is accredited by UNESCO. In 2024 we received Europa Nostra Award, in 2022 the Jeonju International Award for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage (JIAPICH), with strong focus on sustainable business. The organization is also a finalist of New European Bauhaus Award 2023 with the “Innovation Model of Craft Revitalisation”.

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s horizon Europe program under project Recharge (grant agreement No 101061233).”