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The European Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Policy Platform consortium (ekip) is proud to invite you to its seventh policy lab for a day of learning, exchanging, and co-creating to shape concrete recommendations enabling the role of cultural and creative industries in cross-sectoral innovation with performing arts. 

ekip is an EU-funded flagship-project implementing principles of open innovation to establish a policy recommendation engine driven by partners and the active involvement of 40+ CCI-networks. The main goal of ekip is to promote the development and adoption of policy recommendations for CCIs.  This enables CCI actors to participate in and contribute to the impact the recommendation has on complex innovation processes. 

About this policy lab 

The seventh ekip policy lab will explore the opportunities and challenges on cross-sectoral innovation with(in) performing arts, the ongoing policy initiatives, critical factors to be addressed, and actions needed to ensure the development of thriving open innovation ecosystems.  

The role of performing arts in open innovation ecosystems is twofold. On the one hand, performing arts practices can drive innovation in other societal domains as health & wellbeing, business development, citizen involvement, inclusivity etc. On the other hand, performing arts have the ability to drive innovation within their own sector, by pooling external knowledge about innovative formats for artistic creation, audience engagement, sustainability etc. 

The event is open to the following stakeholders:  

• CCI-practitioners/representatives involved in, or with an interest in R&I-projects on performing arts 

• Policy makers on regional/local and EU-level involved in performing arts related implementation and research, innovation-policies and instruments  

• Funding organisations 

• Clusters and key intermediaries in the ecosystem 

• Civil society-stakeholders involved in cross-sectoral innovation with performing arts 

• Academia undertaking research in the field of innovation and performing arts 

The programme of the day

• 09:00-09:30: registration & welcome coffee 

• 09:30-10:30: Setting the scene & keynote 

• 10:30-11:15: Break-out discussion 1 

• 11:15-12:05: Coffee break 

• 12:05-13:20: Break-out discussion 2 

• 13:30-14:20: Lunch at Moore Hotel 

• 14:30-15:45: Break-out discussion 3 

• 15:45-16:15: Wrap-up & next steps 

Speakers

Maja Kuzmanović is a generalist and co-founder of FoAM, a transdisciplinary network working across art, science, nature and everyday life. She investigates ways to navigate uncertainty, re-imagine technology, cultivate hospitality, and grow new worlds amid turbulent times. With academic background in design futures, interactive media and transdisciplinary leadership, Maja operates in between fields and cultures, on the lookout for emergent patters of change. From early experiments with instituting and distributed collaboration, Maja’s approach to connecting people, culture and technology has been recognised by the MIT’s Technology Review and the World Economic Forum, awarding her the titles of Top 100 Young Innovator and Young Global Leader. Whether working with environmental turbulence, re-imagining possible futures or designing experimental situations, Maja’s work is grounded in care. Her works have been presented worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, Anticipation Conference, ISEA, and Europalia. 

Jesper Larsson, Initiator and Project Manager Kalaudioscope / LUDICH (Lund University Digital Interactive Concert Hall)

Jesper has worked in the field of performing arts for more than 30 years, with theatre, musicals, opera, concerts and symphonic music. He was part of opening the Opera house in Copenhagen 2005 and Malmö Live in 2015 and has been CEO of Malmö City Theatre, Malmö Live and Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. Today Jesper works as Head of Production, Planning, Marketing and Sales at Malmö Opera alongside the streaming project Kalaudioscope/LUDICH at Lund University.

How to take part? 

The policy lab will take place on the 5th of June in Stenkrossen in Lund (Kastanjegatan 13), Sweden from 9:00 till 16:30 CET. 

We invite you to register your participation by 26 May, 2025  via this form. Once you submit your registration form, we will provide more detailed information about the event. 

Link up with ekip! 

As a work in progress, the ekip engine is continuously re-evolving. In order to do that for everyone we want you to be a part of our next steps. Stay tuned as we expand this platform to further support the impact and sustainability of the CCIs across Europe. 

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