Tuesday, 8 September
DAY TWO
LUCA School of Arts & ICHEC Brussels Management School
HOW CREATIVE SKILLS BECOME SYSTEMS
Exploring how creative agency is translated into ecosystems, partnerships, learning pathways, sustainability transitions, entrepreneurship, AI, and implementation models.
*All session times are listed in Central European Summer Time (CEST)
08:30 – 09:30
Registration and Coffee
Venue: LUCA Entrance
09:00
CYANOTYPES Pilots Showcase
Venue: LUCA exhibition space
Making Creative Agency Visible
An immersive exhibition showcasing real-life implementations of the CYANOTYPES Framework across Higher Education, VET, SMEs, cultural organisations, and creative ecosystems.
Through installations, videos, prototypes, and visual interventions, the showcase explores:
• What shifted?
• What became visible?
• How can creative competences move from framework to practice?
09:30 – 11:00
Parallel Thematic Sessions
Venue: LUCA School of Arts
A hands-on workshop introducing the CYANOTYPES Framework through selected competences and use cases. Small mixed groups will use real policy scenarios, rather than abstract explanations, and employ a light-touch methodology and cards.
How can local and regional ecosystems translate European skills agendas into real partnerships and implementation models?
In collaboration with the Pact for Skills, this interactive session explores local skills partnerships, ecosystem intermediaries, and cross-sector collaboration connecting education, industry, SMEs, policymakers, and communities.
How can the Cultural and Creative Sectors contribute to the green transition beyond awareness raising?
Hosted by GreenCCIrcle and the Pact for Skills – Green Skills Working Group, this session explores sustainability transformation through skills development, experimentation, ecosystem-building, and regenerative approaches to creative practice.
How can artistic intelligence help us navigate uncertainty and imagine alternative futures?
Through experimentation, speculation, storytelling, and creative inquiry, the arts offer distinctive ways of identifying emerging signals, questioning assumptions, and exploring possible futures. These approaches can support innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and more adaptive responses to complex societal challenges.
This interactive workshop invites participants from across education, research, policy, and the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI) to explore how artistic intelligence can strengthen anticipatory thinking, creative agency, and future-oriented decision-making.
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
Venue: LUCA Entrance
11:30 – 12:45
Parallel Thematic Sessions
Venue: LUCA School of Arts
Continuation
Continuation
How can skills partnerships support rural development, and why are culture and creativity critical to regenerative and place-based approaches?
Bringing together Large-Scale Skills Partnerships from Agri-Food, Digital, Health and Care, Mobility-Transport-Automotive, Proximity and Social Economy, Renewable Energy, Retail, Tourism, and the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI), this session explores how cross-sector collaboration can strengthen rural resilience, community-led innovation, and regenerative futures.
Through examples from experiential tourism, local ecosystems, and place-based initiatives, participants will examine how culture and creativity can connect sectors, activate local assets, and support sustainable transformation in rural areas.
12:45 – 13:30
Transfer from LUCA to ICHEC
Venue: LUCA Entrance
13:15 – 14:30
Lunch
You will be guided to the new venues, from LUCA to ICHEC.
14:30 – 16:00
Parallel Thematic Sessions
Venue: ICHEC Brussels Management School
Hosted by Creative Pact for Skills, this session will focus on promoting the concept of the ecosystem approach, demonstrating how it functions and why it requires cross-policy support. The session explores career paths from the classroom to the sector, from Talent Development to Resilient Creative Careers.
Hosted by CREDEX and the Creative Pact for Skills Working Groups, this session explores how micro-credentials can support lifelong learning, employability, mobility, and learner-centred education systems in the Cultural and Creative Sectors.
Moving from policy reflection toward practical implementation, the session addresses:
• recognition and portability
• ecosystem collaboration
• non-formal and informal learning
• governance and accessibility
• future skills pathways
This session brings together European initiatives and EU-funded projects, and key stakeholders working on the impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI). Through a joint debate, participants will explore how the CCSI can actively shape and position itself within the urgent transition towards a human-centred AI future. This session will foster dialogue on opportunities, risks, skills, ethics, and collaborative strategies for ensuring that AI development supports creativity, cultural diversity, and inclusive innovation across the sector.
16:00 – 16:30
Break
16:30 – 18:00
Closing Plenary
Venue: ICHEC Auditorium
As Europe faces accelerating transformation, how can culture and creativity strengthen innovation capacity, competitiveness, resilience, and democratic futures?
This plenary connects the discussions of the previous days into a broader reflection on:
• new models of value creation
• innovation ecosystems
• culture as infrastructure
• investment logics beyond short-term economic metrics
• the strategic role of creativity in Europe’s future competitiveness
19:30
Optional Networking Dinners
Participants can opt into a facilitated matchmaking process and join small dinner groups for informal exchange and cross-sector networking. Please note that dinner is at your own expense.
