EIT Culture & Creativity

📢 New open call: EIT Jumpstarter EIT Jumpstarter, run by EIT Culture & Creativity alongside eight other EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (#KIC), offers a 7-month pre-acceleration programme for early-stage innovators across 22 countries. Participants can compete for a €10,000 first prize in eight categories, and this year, we’re leading the New European Bauhaus (NEB) category! Launched in 2021, the #NEB is a creative, interdisciplinary initiative reimagining a sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful future. It brings a participatory dimension to the #EuropeanGreenDeal, valuing design beyond function and fostering harmony with nature, culture, and communities. Does this align with your #startup project? Apply now - the deadline is April 2! More info: https://eitjumpstarter.eu/

💶 5 X 2.500 € und Mentorship für Cross-Innovation & Impact bei creative.projects! Business-Englisch beiseite: Bis zum 9. März sammelt creative.nrw noch gute Ideen mit gesellschaftlicher Wirksamkeit aus der Kreativwirtschaft in NRW. Die diesjährige Jury spiegelt wieder die Breite des Förderaufrufs: Alain Bieber (Kunstpalast), Anabel Perez-Hoppe (creative.nrw), Frank Zumbruch (machwerkhaus köln) und Dunja Karabaic (ökoRAUSCH Think Tank e.V.). Alle Details: https://lnkd.in/eVjKvZcJ

This week, EIT Culture & Creativity joined the launch of the EIT Community Hub Italy at Tecnopolo di Bologna - Manifattura Tabacchi, in Bologna - home to our Regional Hub South. This new hub connects all EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) in Italy, strengthening the country’s ties to Europe’s largest innovation ecosystem. Amid discussions on innovation, digital transformation, and sustainability - with speakers from EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Arter, @MIMIT, APRE - Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea, and CINECA - Angelica Monaco, our Director of Regional Hub South, explored how digital technologies are driving change across our five key sectors: 🏗️ Architecture: AI and 3D printing for sustainable building. 🎥 Audiovisual & Media: Responsible tech and immersive storytelling. 🏛️ Cultural Heritage: AI and 3D modelling for preservation. 🎮 Gaming: AI, no-code tools, and ethical gaming. 👗 Fashion: Circular production and AI-driven design. Led by Marta Molinero, the hub is open to all, fostering collaboration between businesses, startups, universities, and institutions while providing access to expertise, funding, and sector-wide opportunities. Curious? Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eyABqjr5 - Alberto Gualtieri, Alessio Gugliotta, Andrea Conti 🇪🇺, Barbara De Ruggieri, Claudia Carani, @Daniela Sani, Federico Esu, Francesca Barisani, PhD, Gian Mario MAGGIO, Lorenzo Sanna, Marina Silverii, @Maurizio Ferrari, Noemi Boldrini, Patricia Paulina Karrer, Shiva Loccisano, Tech Transfer Expert, Susanna Zuccarini.

📢 EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for the following external positions: ✨External Observer – Horizon Europe Evaluation: A detail-oriented Horizon Europe expert to observe meetings, report on processes, and provide a final compliance assessment with recommendations. 📅 Applications until 25 February 2025. ✨External Expert – Business Plan 2026/28: Consultant or agency to support the development of EIT CC’s 2026-2028 business plan. 📅 Applications until 24 February 2025. ✨Interim/External Head of Human Resources: To assist the Board and Director of Operations in implementing people management processes. 📅 Applications until 21 February 2025. ✨Audit – Horizon Europe Project Selection: Auditing company to review the EIT Monitoring Report Calls 2023, ensuring compliance with Horizon Europe regulations. 📅 Applications until 28 February 2025. Visit our procurement & purchasing page for more details: https://lnkd.in/etX4tP2D We look forward to receiving your application! 

In February the EIT Culture & Creativity is happy to welcome four new colleagues: 🔹 Susannah Montgomery joins as Business Development Manager for Northwest Europe. With a background in arts, technology, and social impact, she recently led international projects at Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Inholland University of Applied Sciences. 🔹Fernanda Mier, our new Education Programme Manager, specializes in cultural management and European-funded initiatives. She has worked across three continents, focusing on call management, competency frameworks, and stakeholder engagement. 🔹Maria Claudia Coppola, PhD, joins as Transformation & RIS Officer, exploring collaborative design practices in policymaking for sustainable and inclusive societal transformation. Passionate about shaping information into open and relatable forms, she fosters knowledge-sharing and collective learning in trans-sectoral ecosystems. 🔹Viviana Hanke, our new Senior Communications Manager, has a background in business, Big Data Marketing, and AI. She has managed communications, events, and partner engagement for global brands like Mercedes-Benz AG and Meta. Please give them a warm welcome!

📢 Join our Webinar! Open Call for Continuous Professional Development CPD Courses. To assist applicants, EIT Culture & Creativity will host three informative sessions, covering key aspects of the call. These webinars offer open and fair access for all interested stakeholders. 📅 Date: 18 February 2025 🕙 Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM CET Join us online!

📢 Join our Webinar! Open Call for Short Innovation Projects 2025 & Main Innovation Projects 2025. To assist applicants, EIT Culture & Creativity will host three informative sessions, covering key aspects of the call. These webinars offer open and fair access for all interested stakeholders. 📅 Date: 19 February 2025 🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM CET Join us online!

📢 Open call: Main Innovation Projects 2025 EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for ambitious, high-impact projects tackling key challenges in the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (#CCSI). This call supports groundbreaking #innovations in fashion, architecture, cultural heritage, audio-visual media, and gaming, helping stakeholders navigate globalisation, digital transformation, emerging technologies (such as AI), and environmental sustainability.   We offer financial support per project up to €350,000 for consortia of at least two participants, along with tailored support to ensure long-term success - market access, investor pitch sessions, and networking opportunities.  The call is open until 11 April, and a series of information sessions will be held on 19 February. Find all the details here: https://lnkd.in/dARmZi63 We look forward to reading your proposals! 

📢 Open call: Continuous Professional Development (#CPD) Courses 2025  EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for courses designed to upskill professionals in the cultural and creative sectors and industries (#CCSI), address critical skills gaps, and foster innovation in support of Europe’s green, digital, and social transitions. We will co-fund up to 10 EIT-labelled courses with up to €150,000 per course, covering topics such as entrepreneurship & creative thinking, emerging technologies, sustainable architecture, gaming, and youth entrepreneurship.   Additionally, we will co-fund up to 10 non-EIT-labelled courses, with up to €75,000 per course, focusing on our five key areas: fashion, architecture, cultural heritage, audio-visual media, and gaming. The call is open until 11 April, and a series of information sessions will be held on 18 February. Find all the details here: https://lnkd.in/duGnNbKJ We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Delighted to represent EIT Culture & Creativity on the expert panel at 🐝 Bee the change: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs in Creative Industries in Brussels! With thanks to Diana Filip for so expertly chairing the panel! What are the key competencies that young professionals in CCSI need to thrive in an evolving market? I spoke of transdisciplinary agility (the ability to seamlessly integrate knowledge and methodologies from diverse fields, fostering innovation at the intersections of art, technology, and science), ethical entrepreneurship (embedding ethical decision-making into the entrepreneurial process to support finite environmental and cultural resources), and cultivating global, cultural literacies (which means not only understanding and appreciating a wide range of cultural narratives, but also how skill and expertise is manifested in non-verbal expressions and practices, each involving their own, nuanced forms of 'literacy'). The panel explored leveraging opportunities in the CCSI sector, such as becoming change agents by acting entrepreneurially (whether entrepreneurs or not), cultivating a creative/innovative mindset, integrating arts into entrepreneurship curricula, providing arts workshops for employees, all in the service of supporting young creatives to transform their ideas into impactful ventures. Happily, EIT Culture & Creativity's current open call for Continuous Professional Development courses includes a Youth Entrepreneurship strand, which aims to unlock fresh talent and drive innovation in the sector today and tomorrow. https://lnkd.in/e58jx5_j Get busy! 🐝 #EITCultureAndCreativity #YouthEntrepreneurship #CreativeIndustries #FutureOfCCI #BeeTheChange #CulturalBEES #Innovation