CREATIVE
SKILLS
WEEK
2023
10 - 13 OCT
VIENNA
POWERED BY
HOSTED BY
CREATIVE
ABOUT
Creative Skills Week 2023 is an essential destination for creatives, producers, leaders, cultural workers, managers, educators, crafters, grafters, changemakers and dreamers, who care about what the future holds for creative skills development. Originally proposed in the Creative Pact for Skills Manifesto, CSW2023 aims to synergise existing activities, projects and communities to promote new approaches to re-skilling and up-skilling.
For the first time, the cultural and creative industries are being addressed as an industrial ecosystem. The issue of skills gaps and needs is a critical concern for stakeholders from all corners of the Cultural and Creative Sectors Industries (CCSI). We are proud to launch the first-ever CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK gathering strategic thinkers, policymakers, cultural workers and networks, creative and artistic practitioners together to co-create plans addressing urgent and future skills needs.
This boundary-breaking programme of events and actions is the culmination of several initiatives, joining forces with the common goal of gathering disparate organisations, stakeholders, and European networks to address needs and skills gaps in the Cultural & Creative Sectors Industries. Anticipating Creative Futures is the main feature of Creative Skills Week 2023, will take place on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 October 2023. Creative Skills Week 2023 is an initiative of the EU Pact for Skills for the Cultural and Creative Industries Ecosystem, the Alliance for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills CYANOTYPES (funded by the European Commission Erasmus+ Programme) and the European Creative Hubs Network.
We believe in bringing diverse stakeholders together to spark new opportunities and ignite new ideas. Register for a series of co-creation sessions. Network with creative thinkers, CCSI strategists and educators. Actively participate in hands-on workshops, captivating plenaries and get social at our evening receptions. Be part of this growing momentum and fuel a sustainable European Cultural and Creative Sectors Industries ecosystem.
Join Creative Skills Week 2023 from 10 -13 October 2023 in Vienna (in person and online). CSW2023 is kindly hosted at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
CSW2023 PROGRAMME
MONDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2023
AFTERNOON
14:00 – 17:00 | ECHN General Assembly Exclusive event for ECHN members. Hosted by University for Applied Arts Vienna |
TUESDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2023
MORNING/AFTERNOON
10:00 – 17:00 | EIT Culture & Creativity Day Vienna Hosted by University for Applied Arts Vienna, this full-day event is the EIT Culture & Creativity opening of the Co-Location Center in Vienna. |
14:00 – 15:00 | Cultuurloket: from knowledge to skills Hosted by Cultuurloket. |
15:00 – 17:00 | Demedarts/Creative Equal Arts Hosted by Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education. |
EVENING
OFFICIAL OPENING: ANTICIPATING CREATIVE FUTURES
Powered by CYANOTYPES and ECHN
Hosted by University for Applied Arts Vienna
Register to join IN-PERSON or ONLINE
| 17:00 | Registration |
| 17:30 | Official Opening of the Creative Skills Week |
| 18:30 | Meet the Community: networking activity |
| 19:00 | Reception and co-creation activity |
WEDNESDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2023
MORNING
Powered by CYANOTYPES and ECHN
Hosted by University for Applied Arts Vienna
Register to join IN-PERSON or ONLINE
| 09:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 09:30 | Plenary session |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Co-creation sessions |
| 13:00 | Lunch break and networking activities |
AFTERNOON
| 14:00 | Open Space |
| 17:00 | Closing plenary |
| 18:00 | Closing reception |
THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2023
AFTERNOON
16:00 – 17:15 | C-SHIP Webinar 2 – Cross-sector collaboration why and how? Organised by the Large-Scale Skills Partnership – Pact for Skills Working Group on Entrepreneurial Skills. |
EVENING
17:30 – 19:00 | Skills for the green transition Hosted by ENCATC – European Network on Cultural Management and Policy and organised by the Pact for Skills Working Group on Skills for the Green Transformation |
GET INVOLVED
Are you passionate about the future of creative skills? Would you like to lead a creative skills conversation by hosting a workshop, activity or presentation online or in-person? Dive deep with friends into the subject of competencies, qualities and skills in the Creative and Cultural Industries Sectors (CCIS) in Europe and beyond.
HOST AN EVENT AS PART OF CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK 2023
APPLICATION IS CLOSED
Creative Skills Week 2023 is designed to gather the creative and cultural skills community to collaborate, co-create and commune in new, unique and innovative ways.
Interested organisations and individuals are welcome to submit their own activities, projects, events (either in-person or online) to be programmed as part Creative Skills Week 2023.
Benefits of hosting your own event
- Raise your organisation’s profile
- Join a vibrant active creative skills community
- Showcase your research, work or creative activities
- Promote your event on the CSW2023 website
- Network with international colleagues
- Get online access to CSW2023 hybrid events
- Access the CSW2023 Event App
- Benefit from the support of the CSW2023 team
ADD YOUR EVENT TO OUR PROGRAMME
Creative Skills Week 2023 gives CCIS stakeholders the opportunity to promote their online or in-person events, debates, and skills related activities to a captive international audience in Vienna and beyond. See the CSW2023 event guidelines for details. Add your event to our programme by filling in this form. Use the CSW2023 logo.
Please ensure that:
- The activity is in line with the ambition of the Creative Pact for Skills Manifesto;
- The institution organising the activity is part of the Pact for Skills for the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) Ecosystem or affiliated to one of the signatory organisations (for example, a member of a network);
- The activity takes place in the week of Creative Skills Week 2023, either in Vienna or online.
- The Creative Skills Week 2023 logo is used where possible.
Selected events will be promoted as part of the CSW2023 general programme. Details of the different events should feature on the applicant organisation’s website. Please note CSW2023 does not provide funding, logistical support or automatic registration to other activities. Event organisers are solely responsible for the implementation of the activities listed on the website. (See guidelines for details)
CSW2023 is brought to you by
The European Commission has initiated an ambitious plan to define new skill sets. This has led to the launch of the Pact for Skills — a shared engagement and approach to skills development. By boosting joint action, the impact of skills investment will be maximised. Skills policies and actions are being shared between many players. Companies, workers, education and training providers, national, regional and local authorities, chambers of commerce and employment services are contributing to making up- and reskilling a reality.
The Pact for Skills for the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) Ecosystem has established a largescale partnership which commits to promoting a life-long learning ecosystem which will be relevant, accessible, and affordable to all sector professionals throughout their careers. The partnership also reinforces synergies and resource pooling between existing initiatives.
CYANOTYPES is a community of change, a pan-European project addressing the Cultural and Creative Industries sector’s needs and skills gaps. As an ambitious cross-sectoral initiative, CYANOTYPES aims to facilitate joint efforts to address skills gaps in urgent and future skills. Both skills and skillsets are identified through research, stakeholder engagement, and use cases. The modular curricula, a triple loop learning framework, developed throughout the project, will be validated in different contexts with a series of pilots across Europe. CYANOTYPES aims to initiate changes in how we “learn how to learn”.
The European Creative Hubs Network is a peer-led network with a mission to enhance the creative, economic and social impact of hubs around Europe and neighbouring countries.
As focal points for cultural and creative professionals, creative hubs play a key role at the intersection of culture, economy, society, education and technology, and they offer the most effective way to support the growth and impact of cultural and creative industries.
To achieve this, hubs themselves need to network, to pool resources, share best practices, and build on advocacy, policy and opportunities – and this is what ECHN offers to its members.
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is home to more than 1,800 students, many of whom come from other countries both in and outside Europe. The range of courses, which are on offer is unusually diverse and includes architecture, fine arts (painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, ceramics), stage design, design (fashion, graphic design, graphics and advertising, landscape design), industrial design, media design (transmedia arts, digital art), conservation and restoration, pedagogic studies for artistic teaching disciplines, textile design and handicrafts. It is precisely the diversity of these artistic disciplines, which is supplemented by a large number of scientific subjects, that contributes to the special atmosphere that prevails at the “Angewandte”.
