CREATIVE
SKILLS
WEEK
2023
10 - 13 OCT
VIENNA
POWERED BY
HOSTED BY
CREATIVE
ABOUT CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK
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 Sector Industries (CCSI). We are proud to launch the first-ever CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK gathering strategic thinkers, policymakers, creative hub managers, cultural workers and networks, creatives 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 Sector Industries. 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 (co-funded by the European Commission).
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.
ANTICIPATING CREATIVE FUTURES
The main feature of Creative Skills Week 2023, Anticipating Creative Futures is a two-day programme that brings together diverse stakeholders to spark new opportunities and ignite new ideas. The event ensures maximum interaction and participatory activities to harness collective wisdom. Network with creative thinkers, CCSI strategists and educators. Actively participate and propose a session at the Open Space. Get social at our evening receptions. Be part of this growing momentum and fuel a sustainable European Cultural and Creative Sector Industries ecosystem. Register for a series of in-person and online events and co-creation sessions on Tuesday 10 October and Wednesday 11 October.
Registration is closed for Anticipating Creative Futures
IN-PERSON participation
Registration is closed for Anticipating Creative Futures
ONLINE participation
CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK 2023 AFTERMOVIE
LIVE BROADCASTING
Official Opening/ 09 October 17:30-18:30
Plenary Session/ 11 October 09:30-10:30
Closing Plenary/ 11 October 17:00-18:00
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CSW2023 PROGRAMME
MONDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2023
MORNING
11:00 – 11:30 | CREATIVE SKILLS EUROPE – European social partners supporting skills in the live performance and audiovisual sectors Carried out by Pearle*- Live Performance Europe, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the International Federation of Musicians (FIM), the International Federation of Actors (FIA), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), and the Media, Entertainment & Arts sector of Uni Europa (EURO-MEI) More information and registration here |
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
| 7:00 | Powered by CYANOTYPES and ECHN |
| 17:00 | Registration Grab your badge and prepare for an insightful experience |
| 17:20 | Official Opening of the Creative Skills Week ONLINE BROADCASTING |
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Petra Schaper Rinkel, Rector of the University for Applied Arts Vienna
Barbara Stacher, Senior Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture (DG EAC)’s Cultural Policy Unit
Ilona Lelonek Husting, Policy Officer at the Unit for “Proximity, Social economy and Creative Industries” of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) at the European Commission
Tânia Almeida Santos, Vice President of European Creative Hubs Network
David Crombie, Project Coordinator of CYANOTYPES, HKU – University of the Arts Utrecht
Charlotte Gimfalk, Managing Director, YNFT – Screen Skills Committee Sweden
| 18:50 | Meet the Community: networking activity Participants engage in a fun networking activity to get to know each other and explore shared interests and goals. |
| 19:00 | Speed networking in the PINE Tool App ONLINE ONLY |
| 19:20 | Reception and co-creation activity While enjoying a drink and some food, delegates are guided to explore possible solutions to the challenges of the cultural and creative industries sector. |
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| 17:00 | Registration
Grab your badge and prepare for an insightful experience |
| 17:30 | Official Opening of the Creative Skills Week
Speakers: Petra Schaper Rinkel, Rector of the University for Applied Arts Vienna Barbara Stacher, Senior Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture (DG EAC)’s Cultural Policy Unit Ilona Lelonek Husting, Policy Officer at the Unit for “Proximity, Social economy and Creative Industries” of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) at the European Commission Vassilis Charalampidis, President of European Creative Hubs Network Association David Crombie, Project Coordinator of CYANOTYPES |
| 18:30 | Meet the Community: networking activity
Participants engage in a fun networking activity to get to know each other and explore shared interests and goals. |
| 19:00 | Reception and co-creation activity
While enjoying a drink and some food, delegates are guided to explore possible solutions to the challenges of the cultural and creative industries sector. |
WEDNESDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2023
MORNING
Powered by CYANOTYPES and ECHN | |
| 09:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 09:30 | Plenary session ONLINE BROADCASTING In this session, the CYANOTYPES consortium partners will present their findings after the first project year. What have we learned and what do we still need to learn? What are the skills gaps in the cultural and creative industries? What are the competencies that we should have and that we will need in the future? |
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Gerin Trautenberger, Managing Director, ECBN – European Creative Business Network
Becky Riches,Project Manager, MateraHub
Florian Schneider, Professor, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sónia Alves, Researcher, K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik gGmbH
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Co-creation sessions: Slaying Sacred Cows A sacred cow is a figure of speech for something considered immune from question or criticism. What are the Sacred Cows when it comes to skills and competencies in the cultural and creative industries? Participants critically look at the findings of the CYANOTYPES project, share failures and propose possible improvements. |
| 12:00 | Co-creation sessions: World Café Participants contribute to answering the key questions emerging from the CYANOTYPES project that are at the core of shaping the future of the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries Sector. What are the skills and competencies that are needed to undertake the Green, Digital and Societal Transformation? Are these integrated in education or how can we include these in future curricula? These and more questions will guide the stakeholders in co-creating the future of the cultural and creative industries. |
| 13:00 | Lunch break and networking activities |
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| 09:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 09:30 | Plenary session
In this session, the CYANOTYPESyanotypes consortium partners will present their findings after the first project year. What have we learned and what do we still need to learn? What are the skills gaps in the cultural and creative industries? What are the competencies that we should have and that we will need in the future? |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Co-creation sessions: Slaying Sacred Cows
A sacred cow is a figure of speech for something considered immune from question or criticism. What are the Sacred Cows when it comes to skills and competencies in the cultural and creative industries? Participants critically look at the findings of the CYANOTYPES project, share failures and propose possible improvements. |
| 11:00 | Co-creation sessions: World Café
Participants contribute to answering the key questions emerging from the CYANOTYPES project that are at the core of shaping the future of the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries Sector. What are the skills and competencies that are needed to undertake the Green, Digital and Societal Transformation? Are these integrated in education or how can we include these in future curricula? These and more questions will guide the stakeholders in co-creating the future of the cultural and creative industries. |
| 13:00 | Lunch break and networking activities |
AFTERNOON
Powered by CYANOTYPES and ECHN | |
| 14:00 | Open Space Participants co-create the agenda of the afternoon. What are the issues and topics that should be addressed? Participants lead the way in problem-solving and future thinking for the CCSI. |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | World Café ONLINE ONLY What are the issues and topics that should be addressed? Participants lead the way in problem-solving and future thinking for the CCSI. |
| 17:00 | Closing plenary ONLINE BROADCASTING Let’s regroup after our intensive breakout sessions. What did we discover, learn, and unlearn? |
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André Forte, Head of Business Development – Arts, UPTEC
David Crombie, Project Coordinator of CYANOTYPES, HKU – University of the Arts Utrecht
| 18:00 | Closing reception
We celebrate together with drinks and food at the end of a productive and creative day. Find here your next partner in creativity. |
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| 14:00 | Open Space
Participants co-create the agenda of the afternoon. What are the issues and topics that should be addressed? Participants lead the way in problem-solving and future thinking for the CCSIIS. |
| 17:00 | Closing plenary
Let’s regroup after our intensive breakout sessions. What did we discover, learn, and unlearn? |
| 18:00 | Closing reception
We celebrate together with drinks and food at the end of a productive and creative day. Find here your next partner in creativity. |
THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2023
AFTERNOON
14:00 – 15:30 | Recognition of Creative Skills Organised by Aldous Information Services BV |
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 |
SPEAKERS
Petra Schaper Rinkel
Rector of the University for Applied Arts Vienna
Barbara Stacher
Senior Expert at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture (DG EAC)’s Cultural Policy Unit
Ilona Lelonek Husting
Policy Officer at the Unit for “Proximity, Social economy and Creative Industries” of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) at the European Commission
Tânia Almeida Santos
Vice President of European Creative Hubs Network
David Crombie
Project Coordinator of CYANOTYPES
Charlotte Gimfalk
Managing Director, YNFT – Screen Skills Committee Sweden
Gerin Trautenberger
Managing Director, ECBN – European Creative Business Network
Becky Riches
Project Manager, MATERAHUB
Florian Schneider
Professor, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sónia Alves
Researcher, K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik gGmbH (HBKS team)
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.
GET INVOLVED
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 European Creative Hubs Network is part of the Creative Europe Networks and is co-funded by the European Union through the Cross-sectoral strand of the Creative Europe programme.
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”.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.