2. winning_consortium_factsheet.pdf

MEET THE WINNING TEAM BEHIND EIT CULTURE & CREATIVITY: ICE – INNOVATION BY CREATIVE ECONOMY EIT Culture & Creativity’s mission is to inspire and facilitate collaborative innovation in the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI). From culture to communities, creatives to capital, small and large entrepreneurs to markets, imagination to technology, EIT Culture & Creativity will strengthen innovation and power Europe’s green and digital transformation.

WHO ARE THE FOUNDING PARTNERS: EIT Culture & Creativity will bring together 50 partners from across Europe. Austria KAT – Kreativwirtschaft Austria Ars Electronica Impact Hub Network JKU - Johannes Kepler University Belgium EURATEX Cultuurloket Una Europa Bulgaria Junior Achievement Bulgaria Cyprus OEPCR - Organisation for European Programmes and Cultural Relations Denmark BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group Estonia Tartu University - Viljandi Culture Academy France Bpifrance Cap Digital Centre Pompidou CreativeTech MIN4CI - Mediterranean Innovative Narratives Competence Center for Cultural and Creative Industries Finland Kaapeli

Germany Fraunhofer Gesellschaft GameInfluencer Goethe-Institut Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft Ogilvy InnoCreateGermany Public Art Lab Greece Bios ECHN - European Creative Hubs Network Hungary ELTE - Eötvös Loránd University Ireland In Place of War Italy ART-ER – Società Consortile per Azioni CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Fondazione Cariplo Fondazione Fitzcarraldo Netherlands City of Amsterdam ECF - European Cultural Foundation Erasmus University Rotterdam Europeana Fabrique Philips Design

Portugal University of Porto Slovakia CIKE - Creative Industry Košice Spain Atos Eurecat - Technology Centre of Catalonia Mediapro Tecnalia Sweden RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden Trans Europe Halles Uppsala University Industry Commons Foundation Switzerland EBU - European Broadcasting Union United Kingdom Creative UK

WHERE WILL EIT CULTURE & CREATIVITY BE BASED? To run their activities, six Co-Location Centres (CLCs) will be set up, ensuring pan-European coverage and accessibility for innovators and creatives. The CLCs will be located in: • • • • • •

CLC North West: Amsterdam, The Netherlands CLC North: Helsinki, Finland CLC South: Bologna, Italy CLC South West: Barcelona, Spain CLC South East Europe & ALPS: Vienna, Austria CLC East: Kosice, Slovakia

WHAT WILL EIT CULTURE & CREATIVITY DO? Break boundaries in CCSI education by teaching cutting-edge technology to creatives and creativity as a cross-industry skill, increasing multidisciplinary collaborations of higher education leaders with creative industry economics, nurturing imaginative, creative businesspeople and market-savvy artists and designers. Deliver mission-driven innovations leveraging the change-making power of CCSI to develop eco-systemic services and products rebuilding Europe after the COVID-19 pandemic as a carbon neutral continent. EIT Culture & Creativity will provide experimental spaces to enable creative innovations stimulated through research and technology transfer and early adoptions in emerging high growth global markets. Transform CCSI businesses through custom-fitting innovation support, incubation schemes, and novel investments and philanthropic financing connecting existing networks of 2 000 creative hubs, 3 000 cultural institutions and 300 000 entrepreneurs across Europe. Mainstream the impact and value of CCSI especially culture and heritage as an enabler for economic regeneration, and societal cohesion by supporting regions, cities and rural areas, to facilitate industrial and social changes including climate adaptation and mitigation.

Deepen the acknowledgement and knowledge of CCSI´s unique contributions to research and innovation ecosystems based on novel, data-driven methods, implemented standardisation of knowledge exchanges and smart monitoring of facts and figures. EIT Culture & Creativity will facilitate impact-driven dialogues with best-in-class innovators and policymakers at all levels to unlock the potential of cultural and creative sectors and industries for a sustainable and thriving society.

WHAT WILL EIT CULTURE & CREATIVITY ACHIEVE? By 2030, EIT Culture & Creativity will have delivered: • • • • • • • •

1 500 graduates from EIT-labelled programmes 44 000 professionals upskilled in 200 lifelong learning courses 400 tested innovations, 155 marketed innovations, 5500 IP entries 1 100 organisations supported to expand their business and reach EUR 80 million invested in start-ups with 200 start-ups created 250 initiatives that promote and celebrate EU identities, values and culture 100 CCSI-driven community (re)generation initiatives 1 800 CCSI organisations transformed to be more digital, green and social