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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. [...]

The Festival of the New European Bauhaus will take place next June 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. Organised by the European Commission, the first edition of this festival will bring together people from all walks of life to debate and shape a sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful future. Ultimately, it will bring the European Green Deal at [...]

Bernd Fesel, managing director of the European Creative Business Network (ECBN), will take part in the symposium next week on “Heritage for the Future, Science for Heritage: A European Adventure for Research and Innovation”, organised by the Foundation for Heritage Science under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.  The event will [...]

After hitting some new records in 2021 with its second digital edition, the Creative Bureaucracy Festival will return in 2022 with the best of both worlds – Save the Date for the Digital Kick-Off Day on 24 March and the Creative Bureaucracy Festival live event in Berlin on 2 June 2022! The year 2022 will offer even more [...]

The third edition of the Global Report Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity – Addressing culture as a global public good - published in English, French and Spanish - was launched on 8 February 2022. To mark the release of this UNESCO flagship publications, an online launch event was organised with the participation of artists, representatives of [...]

The ECBN (European Creative Business Network) was commissioned by the UNESCO to conduct a feasibility study to create a regular consultation mechanisms for cultural and creative enterprises involved in the implementation of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions. Therefore, the ECBN together with 3Walks conducted a [...]

After more than a year of lockdown, this year’s European Creative Industries Summit (#ECIS2021), which took place on the 12th and 13th September, shed light on the bright future of Europe with support of cultural creatives – from local to global, from live to digital. The conference Future Unlocked! a joint event by the European [...]

Bernd Fesel, managing director of the European Creative Business Network (ECBN), took part in the CCIs and Innovation Contrast project, organised by the Basque Government and developedthroughout 2021, which brought together European experts to discuss the topics of innovation in the CCIs, R&D and the measurement of R&D&i. Bernd Fesel was involved from the outset [...]

The ECBN with its Director Bernd Fesel proudly announces that it will participate in the activities organised by Nesta's Policy& Evidence Center (PEC) to promote A Global Agenda for the Cultural and Creative Industries. It  is the PEC’s contribution to the United Nations 2021 International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. It was created in response [...]

Radio Deus is a pop-up radio station airing online for one day, targeting the creative sector, professionals, students and policy makers. On the 16th December 2021, you have the chance to be part of a unique experience hosted by DeuS in Matera, Italy. For this day, we run a pop-up radio station especially for the [...]