European Horizon-project Develops New Opportunities for Creative Industries
The Humak University of Applied Sciences is involved in the Horizon Europe research project, which is led by Lund University in Sweden. The consortium includes 17 partners from 12 European countries. The goal of the European Cultural and Creative Industries Policy Platform (ekip) project is to develop new, innovative operating models for creative industries. The total value of the grant is 6 million euros.
The project starts on June 1, 2023 and its duration is 3.5 years.
New funding models for cultural and creative industries
“This is the largest research project in history aimed at the development of Europe’s creative industries,” says Marcin Poprawski, the lecturer who leads Humak’s cultural production team in the project. ”
Three key goals have been set for the project, which are linked to the development of the cultural and creative industries (Culture and Creative Industries, CCI). These include:
- Building the CCI Meta-Network,
- CCI operations innovation as well as
- Activation of CCI-driven ecosystems.
In the activities included in the project, various models are tried out, tested and evaluated in networks (ecosystems) of stakeholders closely related to the cultural sector. These ecosystems consist of large and small companies, institutions, organizations, researchers and individual actors. Ecosystems are needed to develop and experiment with new concepts, to expand financing opportunities and to start business activities faster.
17 Horizon partners influence cultural practices across Europe and promote the green transition
The main starting point of the project is to change the current situation, where the European-wide support mechanisms for the cultural and creative sectors do not work very efficiently, as the project’s coordinator Charlotte Lorentz from Hjorth Lund University has stated.
17 ekip partners are working together to develop digital platforms that promote European cooperation. By analyzing the current functions of more than 40 networks of cultural and creative sectors, we aim to produce models, from which the most functional in terms of the future will be refined.
These innovative operating models of the ekip project are also part of the EU’s green development transition, where the criteria of responsible and sustainable production are at the center.
Contact persons:
Charlotte Lorentz Hjorth, ekip coordinator, charlotte.lorentz_hjorth@fsi.lu.se
Finland’s contact person: senior lecturer Marcin Poprawski, ekip-team leader at Humak, marcin.poprawski@humak.fi
Text:
Marcin Poprawski,
modified from Finnish version of (26.5.2023) Pekka Vartiainen by Jarmo Röksä
