Since 2011 ECBN organizes an annual policy forum with top policymakers and leading stakeholders from cultural creative industries on current European topics in cultural, economic and social policies.
2023
The 13th European Creative Industries Summit 2023 “Transofmative Skills – embrace friction to create the unexpected” focuses on promoting the importance of creative skills for the renewal of our society and our planet.
https://www.notion.so/ecbnintra/ECIS23-Program-6c6802c79f224dec96b61e7515555486
2022
The 12th European Creative Industries Summit 2022 “GREEN” Conference stands for the re-imagination, re-focusing and re-framing of policies for the cultural creative sectors and industries (CCSI).
2021
The 11th European Creative Industries Summit 2021 “Future Unlocked!” is a joint event by the European Creative Industries Summit (ECIS21), Creativeforum.si and the Centre for Creativity Slovenia which is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Future Unlocked – European Creative Industries Summit 2021 Conference
2020
The 10th European Creative Industries Summit 2020: “Framing Creative Futures”
Framing Creative Futures – The 10th European Creative Industries Summit (ECIS 2020)
2019
The 9th European Creative Industries Summit 2019 focuses on the IMPACT of cross-innovations for the competitiveness of the wider economy – driven by the cultural and creative industries.
https://mailchi.mp/ecbnetwork/ecis2019_program
2018
8th European Creative Industries Summit 2018: “BEYOND – Cross-Innovation as driver for Growth in the European Digital Single Market.”
2017
6th European Creative Industries Summit 2017:
“Europe @Cross-Roads: A New Agenda for Innovation”
All Presentations for Download
(Foto right: Panel “Innovation Agenda 2020”; left to right: Bernd Fesel, Pieter Aarts,
Gerin Trautenberger, Frits Grotenhuis)
2016
5th European Creative Industries Summit 2016:
“Structural Policies for the Industrial Future of the Creative Industries”
Executive Summary & Policy Briefing

“The future of the Creative Industries is making the link between science and creativity” Martine Reicherts, General Director of DG Education and Culture
2015
4th European Creative Industries Summit 2015 :
“The Cultural Creative Entrepreneur in the 21st Century”
Manifesto for Entrepreneurial Assets and Capacities
2014
ECBN Policy Forum:
“Internationalization”
ACCESS: A Manifesto for Growth in Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries
2010
European Cultural and Creative Industries Summit
2009
European Cultural and Creative Industries Summit:
“Digital Shift”
Photo credit: ECIS 2017 Brussels.