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REGISTER HERE! The #ECIS22 continues on June 10 with Breakout Sessions 3 and 4 (BoS #3 & #4), which will take place in a hybrid format, in Brussels and online. The third part of this year's #ECIS22 is all about green ideas and investing in European creative talents. The green transformation of our society needs [...]

The Pre-Conference BoS#1 & BoS#2 "Green Skills and Skittles" of the European Creative Industries Summit #ECIS22 GREEN Conference took place on May 9, 2022, from 9.30am to 4pm CEST, in a hybrid format in Graz (Austria) and online via zoom. You can now (re-)watch the event! https://vimeo.com/710743772?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=3438526 Green Skills and Skittles is about acquiring creative skills to support the [...]

This year's #ECIS22 GREEN Conference stands for the re-imagination, re-focusing and re-framing of policies for the cultural creative sectors and industries (CCSI). This conference is about green transformation in our industry and creative sector. During this #ECIS22 we will discuss the contribution of CCIs to the Green Transition with the guiding question for the next decade: How can CCSI contribute to the [...]

On the occasion of the second event of the European Creative Industries Summit (#ECIS22), the European Federation for the Creative Economy was announced in Graz, Austria, on the 9 May 2022. The new Federation is the evolution of the European Creative Business Network (ECBN), which brings together 174 industry defining agencies and intermediaries for creative industries [...]

This year's #ECIS22 Pre-Conference Break-Out Sessions will address how creative skills and the creative economy support the Green Transition. How can the creative and cultural industry and sectors support the Green Transformation? The first part of this year's ECIS22 GREEN pre-conference, with the first and second Breakout Sessions (BoS#1&#2), will explore the skills needs for a creative green [...]

The ‘Creative Pact for Skills Manifesto’ (C-P4S) is now ready for endorsement. As outlined in the closing statement of the document, “all the organisations that support the Creative Pact for Skills Manifesto recognise the importance of thriving talents and skilled workers in the European Cultural and Creative Industries ecosystem and all its sectors. Therefore, they [...]

Bernd Fesel, Managing Director of the European Creative Business Network (ECBN), will participate next Thursday, March 23rd, in the final conference of the EU-project InduCCI “More than colour into grey. The Role of Cultural and Creative Economy in Transforming Industrial Regions” to be celebrated in Corda Campus, Hasselt (Belgium).  After 3 years, the EU-project InduCCI [...]

Bernd Fesel, Managing Director of the European Creative Business Network (ECBN), took part on March 16th at the symposium “Heritage for the Future, Science for Heritage: A European Adventure for Research and Innovation” organised by the Foundation for Heritage Science.  The event which took place in a hybrid format during March 15th and 16th was structured around [...]

The Creative FLIP project Stakeholder conference “FLIPPING PERSPECTIVES – MAXIMIZING EXCHANGE” took place March 16th at LaVallée creative hub in Brussels. This conference was a participatory event gathering main stakeholders of CCS – from EU and national policy-makers, networks and intermediary organizations, to researchers, experts, Voices of Culture process participants and cultural and creative professionals themselves. [...]