Dear colleagues,
Unfortunately, the last two turbulent years have marked my presidency where we are, with
difficulty getting out of a world pandemic, and today we are even facing a war on our
doorstep, after the aggressive attack on a sovereign nation, Ukraine that the whole ECIA
community strongly condemns!
Although this, we need to stay positive and so I would like to convey to you the great news
that our final agreement for the funding by the Creative Europe program, on which we have
been working on from 2020, was taken together in our extra General Assembly in March and
beginning of April , the board finalized the last issues on time.
We are proud and happy that the European Commission are willing to support our
organization, not only for the financial support on the next three years, but because it also
shows that our profession is an important economic factor in Europe, which it is worth to
invest on !
The aim of the ECIA-BCSP (Building Connections for a Stronger Profession) project is based
on two main basic objectives:
professionalize the organization ECIA and increase recognition and strengthen the
profession.
This issues has been a goal of the of ECIA since the establishment in 1992, year of its
foundation, and now we have a new strength and opportunity to move on to the next level
together.
The structure of the project are defined also the different sub-projects:
• Spider Models Research
• Growing the network
• Exchanging knowledge
• ECIA Interior Award
• Promoting the ECIA Charter
• Representing the network
all opportunities that leads me to ask you to bring all your enthusiasm and passion into the
projects by actively participating in their development and growth ... together we can achieve
great goals and become an example for the whole Europe !!
I also want to take the opportunity to announce our next ECIA General Assembly 2022:
This will take place in Italy, Florence 23 to 25th of September (save the date) and in the
hope that all the ongoing difficulties (pandemic-war) can be solved , it will be carried out in
presence and hybrid mode, to allow everyone, and I want underline “everyone “ of all ECIA
members who can participate to celebrate together the 30th anniversary of our association
1992-2022!
The event organized by our Italian member AIPI is in an advanced stage of organization and
will include, in addition to our general assembly, the participation of the leaders of IFI World
and International members , historical friends of ECIA , and a series of cultural initiatives
included in our ECIA BCSP project such as meetings and round tables that will be
communicated to you shortly together with the complete programs.
Wish all the best and..stay tuned!
Martin Thörnblom