Wednesday, 9 September

Collaborative consultation workshop exploring future pathways for micro-credential frameworks tailored to the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) across Europe. 

The session will begin with the presentation and validation of the CREDEX Micro-Credentials Providers’ Database for CCIs, led by Nerea Rojas, Coordinator of Creative FED, followed by an interactive workshop facilitated by Babette van der Kloot, Caroline van Leuven and Siete Sirag from HKU. 

Participants will contribute to the development of the CREDEX Roadmap, working across four key areas: 

• understanding and trust building 

• building practice 

• building systems 

• building recognition 

The outcomes will help identify practical priorities for supporting the development and adoption of micro-credentials across the European Cultural and Creative Industries. 

Led by INSPIRE Europe and the Creative Pact for Skills Working Group for Cross-Sectoral Innovation, this interactive session explores how creative competences and lifelong learning can support innovation, resilience, and adaptability across sectors.

Drawing on experiences from the performing arts and beyond, participants will examine emerging approaches to skills development, professional learning, and cross-sector collaboration in response to digital, environmental, and organisational transitions. The session will also showcase practical learning opportunities and tools that support professionals in developing future-oriented competences throughout their careers.

Speakers:

• Umberto Bellodi, Coordinator of Cooperations and International projects, Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan 

• Flora Croce, Membership & Communication Officer, Pearle* Live Performance Europe 

• Anita Debaere, Director, Pearle*-Live Performance Europe 

• Jacopo Guarnieri, Department Coordinator, Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan 

Watch livestream (passcode: CSW26)

From Data Gathering to Impact & Public Value

How should Europe measure the value created by culture and creativity?

While economic indicators and data gathering processes remain important, they often fail to capture the broader contributions of culture to innovation, social cohesion, democratic participation, wellbeing, and resilience. This session challenges narrow economic metrics, explores alternative approaches to understanding impact and public value, examining how evidence, data, and new evaluation frameworks can better reflect the role of culture and creativity in addressing societal challenges.

Speakers:

• Ann Becker, Senior Vice President and Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Video Games Europe 

• Martijn Blom, Impact Funds Development, Impact Europe 

• Melanie Coisne, Head of Heritage & Culture, King Baudouin Foundation
• Barbara Stacher, Senior Expert, Cultural Policy, DG EAC, European Commission

Moderated by Rolf Hughes, Director of Education, EIT Culture & Creativity

This participatory forum invites the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries to bring their questions, concerns and experiences into the conversation about the future of AI. Participants will explore the ethical issues that are emerging as AI becomes part of creative practice, education, cultural organisations and professional life.  

Through facilitated discussion and collective reflection, participants will identify the concerns and dilemmas that matter most: from rights, authorship and transparency to fairness, cultural diversity, working conditions, human agency, trust and the future of creative practice. They will also explore where perspectives converge, where tensions remain, and what kinds of AI futures the sector wants to help shape.  

The discussion forms part of the evidence-gathering work of the Horizon Europe project European AI Commons – Shaping AI for the Creative and Cultural Industries (EAiCCI). Contributions will help build a European evidence base on current AI practices, risks, needs, values and possible futures, informing future research, learning resources, tools, scenarios and policy recommendations.  

Come with a concern, a dilemma, an experience or a question. Leave your mark on the conversation about what responsible and human-centered AI could mean for Europe. 

Speakers:

• Lena Gieseke, professor of Visual Media Technologies / Technical Direction in the M.A. Creative Technologies programme at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF 

• Eric Pol, Chair of the Board of MyData