ekip Events

The European Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Policy Platform consortium (ekip) is proud to invite you to its ninth policy lab for two online sessions of learning, exchanging, and co-creating to shape concrete recommendations enabling cultural heritage institutions to claim an active role in open innovation ecosystems.  

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 community review

The eight ekip policy lab will explore the opportunities and challenges on the role of Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) within open innovation ecosystems, the ongoing policy initiatives, critical factors to be addressed, and actions needed to ensure the development of thriving open innovation ecosystems.  

CHIs often act as connectors. They bridge policy and practice, local knowledge and expert discourse, memory and experimentation. These roles are essential for building strong innovation ecosystems. Yet they are rarely supported. Understanding where and how CHIs operate within these ecosystems, what roles they play, what constraints they face, and what support they need, is a crucial first step towards better recognition.  

During the community review participants will be reviewing the recommendations developed during the online policy lab sessions taking place in early September. The Policy Lab examines how to recognise and strengthen the role of CHIs in innovation ecosystems. It will explore how policies can support innovation as a social and embedded process. Key questions include: How can we develop better indicators of impact? How do we support community-rooted innovation without imposing standardised models? How can CHIs be empowered as equal partners in shaping transitions? 

The event is open to the following stakeholders:   

• CHI practitioners and decision makers 

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

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

• Funding organisations  

• Clusters and key intermediaries in the ecosystem  

• Civil society-stakeholders involved in cultural heritage innovation  

• Academia undertaking research in the field of cultural heritage innovation  

How to take part?

This event builds on the policy labs in early September on exploring diverse discussions and policy recommendations around the role of CHIs in open innovation ecosystems, heritage-led innovation practices today and the challenges and gaps in policies.  

This community review will take place in person. The community review session will focus on validating the policy recommendations that were formulated in the previous two online sessions. We hope you can join us in-person in the Netherlands for the community review workshop co-organised with EIT CC.  

We invite you to express your interest in participating by contacting Siepke van Keulen (svkeulen@beeldengeluid.nl) and Mutaleni Nadimi (mnadimi@beeldengeluid.nl).

If you’re interested in the online Policy Lab sessions on September 1st and 4th, please visit this page.