BEDA boasts over 50 members from more than 25 countries across Europe. Members include publicly funded design organisations plus professional and trade associations, all of whom promote pioneering design nationally or regionally.
Dear members, colleagues and partners,
Scammers are using names and disguised email addresses from BEDA personnel (e.g. Christina Melander) to reach out to you. These fraudulent emails may request assistance with payments or other financial favours.
Please do not engage in conversations with them. Be aware of this thread and report these emails as Spam/Phishing to your IT Administrator.
BEDA would never request assistance of this nature.
Please stay safe and vigilant. read more
Ornamo Art and Design Finland and BEDA are placing high importance on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for all designers and SMEs across Europe and have created video resources to help grasp the concept of IPR and how to use them to your benefit.
In a short video series, Ornamo‘s lawyer Iiris Adenius provides a concise overview of the basic concepts and principles all designers and SMEs should know.
You can also see... read more
Position Paper in Short
The position paper points to three crucial themes that need attention and ACTION to unleash the potential of designers, as skills, as a creative capacity, as methods and as approaches to innovation.
Deploy design – including fostering skills and lifelong learning, investing in design research to bridge the science-implementation gap, and strengthening intellectual property rights.
Strengthen democracy by rebuilding trust and citizen engagement with design methods – including engage... read more
Design-as-a-Competitive-Edge (DAACE) is a collaborative project led by Ornamo Art and Design Finland and BEDA that focuses on supporting designers to enhance their capabilities of building sustainable businesses around design. read more
This is the European Year of Skills with a focus on addressing the skills shortage in Europe. BEDA, as co-leader of the Large-Scale Skills Partnership for the Cultural and Creative Industries ecosystem, is therefore committed to upskilling and reskilling for long-term transformations.
Register now for an engaging online session that will make you excited about design protection again!... read more
Host: Christina Melander, BEDA President, Danish Design Center
Topic: Roundtable with the BEDA President read more