WDO

World Design Organization

Formerly the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1957 to promote the profession of industrial design.

BEDA

The Bureau of European Design Associations

Counting 46 members, including publicly funded centres and organisations which promote design on a national and local scale, and professional and trade associations from all over Europe.

MEDes

Master of European Design

The only network of its kind, consisting of the seven most important European Schools of Design: Aalto, ENSCI, GSA, KISD, Konstfack, Politecnico di Milano and Universidade de Aveiro.

CUMULUS

Global Association for art&design education and research

The only global association to serve design education and research, it provides a forum for partnership and transfer of knowledge and best practices. It currently has 226 members from 49 countries.

LENS

The Learning Network on Sustainability

An Asian-European network for curriculum development concerning Design for Sustainability, focusing on innovation in the product/service system.

DESIS

Design for Social Innovation towards Sustainability

It is a network of design laboratories of design-oriented schools and universities, actively involved in promoting and supporting sustainable change.

NETFAS

Network for Fashion

Network established by a group of Universities of Applied Sciences to support, strengthen and safeguard their position within the textile and fashion community. The organisation also engages in dialogue with the business community to provide textile and fashion industries with support in the process of their transformation into digitised, bio-based industries.

ESSI

European School of Social Innovation

Association dedicated to strengthening international research, academic and professional education, training and consulting in the field of social innovation