This report highlights the project team's objectives, activities, and accomplishments in order to develop, enhance, and solidify the notion of an arts and crafts ecosystem throughout Europe. 

It then reveals, from a programmatic standpoint, the goals driving the creation of a craft-based network, as well as the main outcomes achieved by the Hephæstus consortium in involving as many partners, stakeholders, and policymakers as possible through territorial dissemination actions and broader digital storytelling and web communication activities. 

It then outlines not only the aims, but also the achievements accomplished via the engagement of many types of stakeholders, exhibiting the formation of a genuine network for the development of craft-based territorial cultural ecosystems.