Tuesday, 8 September

This highly interactive workshop shares the unexpected discoveries that emerged through four years of experimentation. Participants explore the project’s “best kept secrets”: how organisations discovered their blind spots, reframed challenges, learned from mistakes, and translated creative competences into meaningful change

Working directly with CYANOTYPES Pilots, tools and implementation stories, participants are invited to reflect on their own practice, explore new perspectives, and identify practical next steps for their own organisations.

Moderated by Willem-Jan Renger, System Designer & Education Strategist, HKU – University of the Arts Utrecht & CYANOTYPES and Siete Sirag, Educational Trainer, HKU – University of the Arts Utrecht

Please note that this session will be repeated at 11:30 CEST for those unable to attend this timeslot.

How can local and regional ecosystems translate European skills agendas into real partnerships and implementation models?

In collaboration with the Creative Pact for Skills, this interactive session explores local skills partnerships, ecosystem intermediaries, and cross-sector collaboration connecting education, industry, SMEs, policymakers, and communities.

Speakers:

• Camila De Epalza Azqueta, Senior EU Policy Officer, Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU
• Astrid Hannes, Head of Projects, ERRIN 
• Becky Riches, Senior Project Manager, RSP Creative South, Materahub
• Daniela Santopolo, Policy Officer, DG GROW, European Commission
• Anna Spechtenhauser, Deputy Head of the Stuttgart Region European Office in Brussels
• Jenny Tingvall Kornmacher, Cultural and Creative Industries Development Officer, Region Skåne
• Mareile Zuber, Projectmanager Creativity, Innovation, Sustainability & Business, RSP Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Moderated by Paolo Montemurro, Director, Materahub and co-lead of the Creative Pact for Skills

How can the Cultural and Creative Sectors contribute to the green transition beyond awareness raising?

Hosted by GreenCCIrcle and the Creative Pact for Skills – Green Skills Working Group, this session explores sustainability transformation through skills development, experimentation, ecosystem-building, and regenerative approaches to creative practice.

From Narrative to Action: Enabling Sustainable Transformation presents the project’s integrated approach to advancing the green transition in the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI). It showcases the combined use of the GreenCCIrcle Academy, Hub, and Living Labs as interconnected tools that support skills development, experimentation, and organisational change across diverse European contexts.

The session focuses on how these instruments have been applied in practice to address sustainability challenges, close skills gaps, and foster new business and collaboration models. Through storytelling, case studies, and practitioner experiences, it highlights concrete transformation processes enabled by the GreenCCIrcle Academy, Hub, and Living Labs, making the project’s impact tangible beyond its outputs.

A key component of the session is the development and discussion of policy recommendations for green skills and the CCSI, drawing on project findings to inform more effective, practice-based and adaptive policy approaches. Framed as an interactive space for dialogue, the session brings together practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders to translate hands-on experience into actionable insights and to identify enabling conditions for sustainable innovation. It positions creative competences as key drivers of resilience, adaptation, and long-term value creation within evolving cultural and economic ecosystems.

Speakers:

• Gerin Trautenberger, President of CreativeFED
• Merje Laiapea, Founder of In Relation Lab and Member of Lanka.pro
• Jesús Boyano Sierra, Director, INFODEF Institute for the Promotion of Development and Training
• Anna Chiara Carlet, Researcher and project manager, the aiku center – Art Industry Culture of the Ca’Foscari University of Venice
• Giorgio de Bin, Secretary General of the Belgian–Italian Chamber of Commerce in Brussels
• Gianna Lia Cogliandro-Beyens, Secretary General of ENCATC

Moderated by Anna Ochmann, Visual Artist, Interior Designer, Researcher and Expert, ARTeria and Prof. Fabrizio Panozzo, Director, the aiku center – Art Industry Culture of the Ca’Foscari University of Venice

Through artistic experimentation and research, the arts help investigate emerging domains, question assumptions, and explore possible futures, fostering innovation and adaptive responses to societal challenges.

Hosted by LUCA School of Arts, this interactive workshop brings together participants from education, research, policy, and the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI) to explore how artistic intelligence can strengthen future-oriented thinking and decision-making. Participants will generate speculative ideas on how the arts can increase their impact across society and propose indicators to validate interdisciplinary work through artworks and artistic research.

Facilitated by Koenraad Hinnekint, performing artist, art educator, and posthuman researcher, LUCA School of Arts and Kobe Ardui, Coordinator of Lifelong Learning programmes, LUCA School of Arts