The challenge of GatewayCrafts Communication Design is to be itself an alluring gateway for potential students, as well as audiences looking for information and new discourses about creative industries, artisanal work and small-scale manufacturing. The goal is to communicate the project's positioning, what distinguishes it in this universe, demonstrate technical rigour with lightness and fluidity, and, above all, create curiosity.

Alice Bernardo is the founder of Saber Fazer and Ofício. She is a specialist in education and transmission of technical knowledge in the fields of handmade and semi-industrial production in Portugal. She works as a trainer, consultant and researcher, specialising in producing raw materials and creating sustainable production chains from the environmental, social and economic points of view.

Alice shared with our GatewayCrafts project team a few words about her professional career and the birth of this project. During the interview, it was possible to understand better what led her and her business partner, Miguel Barbot, to develop GatewayCrafts and their goals.

GatewayCrafts was launched in January! GatewayCrafts is an Erasmus+ project proposed and coordinated by Saber Fazer / Ofício and which has @cru_creativehub (Portugal) and @materahub (Italy) as partners. The project consists of preparing pilots to facilitate access to technical knowledge in small-scale manufacturing and artisan work. In addition, over the next few months, we will be developing and distributing high-quality educational content free of charge, oriented and adapted for contemporary audiences and digital media.