> [!Meta]+ Meta > PageType:: #organisation > Country:: #Canada > Website:: [https://nscad.ca/research/the-alfoldy-craft-institute/](https://nscad.ca/research/the-alfoldy-craft-institute/)  NSCAD University is proud of its history and strong commitment to teaching and research in the crafts. The Alfoldy Craft Institute (ACI) provides a framework for uniting diverse, cross-disciplinary craft activities through a focused research institute that brings the work of our makers and researchers to the international craft community. The ACI works to cultivate collaborative networks of makers to promote craft research and practice across disciplinary and institutional boundaries by: encouraging creative approaches to research-creation, pedagogy, and dissemination; facilitating local, national and international research partnerships across disciplinary and institutional boundaries; fostering a new generation of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers