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- New European Bauhaus – CCIs enabling green transition
- Immersive Media
- Crafts-led Innovation
- Platformisation of the Music Industry
- Inclusivity in Video Game Industry
- Cross-Innovation with Performing Arts
- Fashion Transition: Eco-Design for Circularity
- Cultural Heritage Institutions within Open Innovation Ecosystems
- New funding models for creativity and innovation
- Spaces, infrastructures, and ecosystems for CCIs
- Reimagining Deep-Tech
- Digital Commons
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- Innovation in a Multi-Stakeholder Environment
- THE ZONE MODEL
- THE LIEPT MODEL
- Method of Mapping and Prioritising Innovation Areas
- Methodology for Policy Corners
- Methodology of the policy co-formulation labs
- Methodology for Open Innovation Factories
- Social Media Listening – Analysis of ekip’s policy areas
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- JOBS OF THE FUTURE
- PORTRAITS OF EUROPE’S CREATIVES
- POLICY AREAS
- Policy Documents
AI and Cultural and Creative Industries
New European Bauhaus – CCIs enabling green transition
Immersive Media
Crafts-led Innovation
Platformisation of the Music Industry
Inclusivity in Video Game Industry
Cross-Innovation with Performing Arts
Fashion Transition: Eco-Design for Circularity
Cultural Heritage Institutions within Open Innovation Ecosystems
New funding models for creativity and innovation
Spaces, infrastructures, and ecosystems for CCIs
Reimagining Deep-Tech
Digital Commons
- KNOWLEDGE BANK
- TOOLS & METHODS
- Innovation in a Multi-Stakeholder Environment
- THE ZONE MODEL
- THE LIEPT MODEL
- Method of Mapping and Prioritising Innovation Areas
- Methodology for Policy Corners
- Methodology of the policy co-formulation labs
- Methodology for Open Innovation Factories
- Social Media Listening – Analysis of ekip’s policy areas
- ekip Frequently Asked Questions
- ekip ENGINE
- COMMUNITY
- EVENTS
- NEWS
- ABOUT US
Upcoming Events
Past Events
SEPT.2026
City Prototyping on Policy Innovation in CCIs Infrastructure
gnration, Praça Conde de Agrolongo, n° 123, Braga
SEPT.2026
Creativity as civic infrastructure: CCIs and digital commons
JKU medLOFT MED Campus I Gebäude ADM, 9. OG Krankenhausstraße 5 4020 Linz Austria
AUG.2026
AI and the Digital Commons: Perspectives from online collections & archives
Online
JULY2026
AI and the Digital Commons: Perspectives from online collections & archives
Netherlands Institute for Sound and vison, Hilversum
JULY2026
Policy Corner: Creativity as civic infrastructure: CCIs and digital commons
Online
JUNE2026
CITY PROTOTYPING WORKSHOP NEW FUNDING MODELS FOR CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
Katoenhuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands
JUNE2026
Policy Lab: Financing Europe’s most valuable asset – new funding models for creativity and innovation
Metropolitan Exhibition Centre, Athens 109 19, Spata Attica
JUNE2026
When deep tech meets artistic creation
Cité du design, France
JUNE2026
Policy lab: Financing Europe’s most transformative asset – new funding models for creativity and innovation
La Tricoterie, Rue Théodore Verhaegen 158, 1060 Bruxelles
JUNE2026
ekip Academy: Building open innovation ecosystems for cultural and creative industries
Tallinn, Estonia
JUNE2026
City Prototyping on Policy Innovation in CCIs Infrastructure
Prague, Czech Republic
MAY2026
City Prototyping on Policy Innovation in CCIs Infrastructure
Narodni dom Celje, Slovenia
MAY2026
Deep tech vs Cultural & Creative Industries: Role of the creative layer in Europe’s deep tech landscape
Cambridge Innovation Center, Stationsplein, Groothandelsgebouw, 4th floor Rotterdam
MAY2026
Policy Lab: Financing Europe’s most valuable asset: New funding models for creativity and innovation (Part 1)
Online
MAY2026
Policy Lab: Reimagining deep tech – what creatives make possible
40 rue Joseph II / Jozef II-Straat 40, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
MAY2026
EKIP High-Level Policy Event – Shifting How Innovation Works in Europe
Blankspace, Rue Saint-Quentin 29, 1000 Bruxelles
APR.2026
Policy Corner: Reimagining deep tech – what creatives make possible
Online Webinar
MAR.2026
Policy Lab: How EU innovation policy can better support CCIs: Spaces, infrastructures, and ecosystems
Online
MAR.2026
City Prototyping Workshop on Digital Commons & Libraries
Lund City Library, St Petri Kyrkogata 6, Lund, Sweden
MAR.2026
Policy Corner: How EU innovation policy can better support CCIs – spaces, infrastructures, and ecosystems
Online Webinar
MAR.2026
City Prototyping Workshop on Cross-Innovation with(in) Performance Art
Tampere, Finland
MAR.2026
Financing Europe’s most valuable asset: New funding models for creativity and innovation
Bruxelles (Brussels), Goethe-Institut Brussels (Bruxelles)
FEB.2026
City Prototyping Workshop on Music Industry and The Innovation Infrastructure
Debrecen, Hungary
FEB.2026
Innovation Takes a Village, Future Forward Hackathon
Online
NOV.2025
Round Table on Innovation Policies for the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries
Riksteatern, Botkyrka, Stockholm Sweden
NOV.2025
City Prototyping Workshop on Cross-Innovation with(in) the Performing Arts
Riksteatern, Hallundavägen 30, Norsborg, Stockholm, Sweden
OCT.2025
Policy Lab: Digital Product Passport, Unlocking Circularity in Fashion & CCIs
Campus Bovisa, via Candiani 72, Milan, Italy
OCT.2025
City Prototyping Workshop on Children Friendly City and CCIS
Bratislava, corner of Šturova and Medena street, Slovakia
OCT.2025
Policy dialogue on Innovation Strategies for the Cultural and Creative Sector
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design, School of Design, Via Candiani, 72, Milan, Italy
OCT.2025
CITY PROTOTYPING WORKSHOP ON GAMING & INCLUSIVITY
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
OCT.2025
CITY PROTOTYPING WORKSHOP ON IMMERSIVE MEDIA
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
OCT.2025
CITY PROTOTYPING WORKSHOP ON FASHION AND TEXTILE
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
OCT.2025
City Prototyping Workshop on Innovation Potential of Cultural Heritage Organizations
Tallinn, Estonia Exact location - TBD
OCT.2025
Community Review – Cultural Heritage Institutions within Open Innovation Ecosystems
Media Parkboulevard 1 1217 WE Hilversum, the Netherlands
OCT.2025
City Prototyping Workshop on Crafts Led Innovation
Matera, Italy Exact location - TBD
SEPT.2025
CITY PROTOTYPING WORKSHOP ON GAMING, INCLUSIVITY & ACCESSIBILITY
Hillehub, Beijerlandselaan 204b, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
SEPT.2025
Policy Lab: Cultural heritage institutions within open innovation ecosystems
ONLINE
JUNE2025
Hacking futures for cultural and creative industries: sustainable models for innovation funding
ONLINE
JUNE2025
Policy Assessment: Performing Arts and AI
Cité du design, Saint-Étienne, France
JUNE2025
Open Innovation Factory: Rethinking Policy for the Creative Economy
ONLINE
JUNE2025
Cross-sectoral innovation with performing arts- ekip Policy Lab
Stenkrossen - Black box scen, Kastanjegatan 13, Lund
JUNE2025
UNEXPECTED – Arts and Science Innovation Forum
Mejeriet, Stora Södergatan 64, 222 23 Lund, Sweden
MAY2025
Inclusivity in the video game industry
Theater Zuidplein, Gooilandsingel 95, 3083 DP Rotterdam, The Netherlands
MAY2025
Policy Corner: Cultural Heritage and Innovation
ONLINE
MAY2025
Faire, Encore (Making, still making) – Art and Design Research Conference (AD•REC) 2025 – Call for participation
École supérieure d'Art et design de Saint-Étienne (Cité du design), France
MAY2025
13th International Design Biennial Saint Etienne: “Resource(s), foreshadowing tomorrow”
Cité du design, Saint-Etienne, France
MAY2025
Fashion transition: eco-design for circularity
ONLINE
APR.2025
Policy Corner: Cross-innovation with performing arts
Online
APR.2025
Adapting the European Music Industry to the Platform Economy
Tallinn, Estonia - Nordic Hotel Forum, Viru väljak 3
MAR.2025
Policy Assessment in Cities: Textile, Fashion and Craft – sustainable and circular manufacturing and DPP (digital product passport)
Lund, Sweden, at Future by Lund
MAR.2025
Inclusivity in the gaming industry
Online
MAR.2025
Policy Assessment in Cities: Crafts Led Innovation
Kukučínova 2, Kulturpark, Košice, Slovakia
MAR.2025
Open Innovation Factory: Inclusivity in Gaming
Online
FEB.2025
Platformisation of the Music Industry
Online
FEB.2025
Crafts-led innovation – ekip Policy Lab
Online
JAN.2025
Policy Corner: Crafts-led Innovation
Online Webinar
JAN.2025
Immersive Media for the Creative and Cultural Industries – Feedback workshop on policy recommendations
Online
NOV.2024
Round Table Policy Dialogue
Online and at Kulturpark, Košice (Kukučínova 2)
NOV.2024
Immersive media for the creative and cultural industries
Kukučínova 2, Kulturpark, Košice
NOV.2024
Policy Assessment Workshop: AI in creation
Cité du design-Ecole supérieure d’art et design, Saint-Etienne, FRANCE Maison du Projet (10 rue Louis Braille, 42000 Saint-Etienne)
OCT.2024
Open Innovation Factory: Immersive Technologies
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE and Online
OCT.2024
Cultural and creative industries enabling green transition: take-aways from the ekip policy lab
Online - ekip Community
SEPT.2024
Skills and public infrastructures for innovation ecosystems
de Waag Futurelab, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam
SEPT.2024
Creative skills for innovation – what, who and how?
Online
AUG.2024
Policy Assesment Workshop on AI and Skills
Future by Lund (Scheelevägen 16), Lund
JUNE2024
Policy Corner: AI and its interplay with the CCIs & Skills and Open Innovation Infrastructures
Online
APR.2024
Policy Corner: The New European Bauhaus
Online
APR.2024
Cultural and creative industries enabling green transition
Rue Joseph II, 1000 Brussels
OCT.2023
AI and its Interplay with CCIs
TU Delft, Design and AI Symposium
JUNE2023
Policy Corner: Prioritization
Lund, Unexpected Arts and Science Innovation Forum
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How ekip Supports You
Why is ekip for me?
ekip helps policymakers, creatives, and ecosystem actors design better innovation systems—starting with culture and creativity.
Take me to: ekip Engine
Am I part of the creative and cultural industries (CCIs)?
If you work in culture, creativity, or across sectors—yes. We include designers, artists, researchers, museums, start-ups, public agencies, and more.
Learn more: ekip Knowledge Bank
What's my role in the open innovation ecosystem?
Our personas page helps you find your role within the innovation ecosystem. Whether you're a policymaker, cultural practitioner, researcher, or city stakeholder.
Explore personas: Page coming soon...
What does "open innovation" mean in ekip?
In ekip, open innovation means starting with collaboration, not competition. We focus on early-stage, cross-sector work where diverse actors (including creatives) frame problems, test ideas, and shape policy together. It's not about keeping solutions proprietary—it's about building ecosystems where innovation grows through shared knowledge and trust.
Learn more: ekip Tools and Methods
What can ekip help me do?
Whether you're shaping policy or leading a project, ekip gives you practical tools, stories, and tested methods to support inclusive, cross-sector innovation.
Start here: ekip Tools and Methods
What can I achieve here?
Learn from real-world innovation ecosystems across Europe; from cities to labs to creative sectors. Discover tested strategies, policy recommendations, and examples of what works (and what doesn't) in building inclusive, cross-sector innovation.
View cases and recommendations: Page coming soon...
Where can I find data, trends, or resources?
Our Knowledge Bank collects case studies, tools, and practical guidance you can apply to your own context.
Visit the KB: ekip Knowledge Bank
How do I avoid repeating what's already been tried in innovation policy?
Check our real-life examples from cities and labs to see what innovation policy actions and interventions have already been tested, and what impact they had.
Explore city cases: ekip Knowledge Bank
How can I implement something like this in my city?
Start with our Policy Lab and City Prototyping guides—tested methods for working with creatives in local innovation.
Get guidance: ekip Tools and Methods
Who can guide me through the innovation process?
ekip tools and labs are co-created by experts across Europe. You can follow their methods,or connect with our community.
Connect with us: About ekip
How can I join the ekip network?
Our Community space is open to collaborators, creatives, and policymakers. Register to take part.
Join the platform: My Creative Networks
How can I contribute or share my work?
You can share resources, ideas, or event opportunities directly in our community or get in touch with the team.
Start contributing: My Creative Networks
What is a policy lab?
A policy lab is a co-creation space where diverse actors shape practical innovation policy ideas together.
Learn more: ekip Tools and Methods
What is city prototyping?
It's how ekip tests policy ideas in real local contexts—through workshops, experiments, and collaboration.
See examples: ekip Knowledge Bank