Curae aimed to achieve its objectives by developing and improving crafting skills in youngsters facing employability issues who are mainly situated in the countryside. Curae wanted to build a bridge between youngsters and the world of craftsmanship in Europe and to present them the benefits of it, and how it could help their communities develop, also economically. This project would bring different European organisations and communities together of different cultures and showing how it is possible to include crafts with technology while developing they entrepreneurial skills such as presenting themselves, promoting themselves and their heritage. With the learned skills, we expected youngsters to adopt a proactive posture towards employability and also consider investing in their community to support its economy. Action wise, this could happen with youngsters assisting local businesses on performing more effectively (therefore the youngsters could pass their skills onwards) but also with youngsters finding themselves employed in their region so that they can also see that where they live also has opportunities to offer work and cultural wise.
Through Curae we wanted to develop employability skills by contributing on the maintenance of national vintage crafts. Our idea was to create a European network with partners who are active in their community and activating this network with national crafts organisations by organising events which would motivate youngsters coming from fewer opportunities background to support their countries’ traditional preservation, more specifically, their communities. Youngsters would collaborate with the participating organisations in the development of an employability method by using vintage crafts as a mean for increasing and improving the employability in a way that crafts can be proven to have a place in the modern world and they can contribute to personal and professional development of a group or an organisation. By being exposed to each other's crafting cultures and by learning to include them as European heritages and not only national heritages, the value of active citizenship and of common values was one of the core elements being present in every process and stages of the project.