Impact Funding Resources
We invite visionary projects, bold experiments, and fresh contributions to shape this year’s Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025). Whether you’re an educator testing new teaching methods, a creative professional developing innovative skills training, or a policymaker shaping frameworks for re-skilling and up-skilling, this is your opportunity to share your work, collaborate, and lead the change.
Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) is a key meeting point for the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries (CCSI), focused on lifelong learning, re-skilling, and upskilling. It facilitates collaboration between:
• Higher Education (HE)
• Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers
• Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
https://creativeskillsweek.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Call-for-Contributions_V2.pdf
Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) is a key meeting point for the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries (CCSI), focused on lifelong learning, re-skilling, and upskilling. It facilitates collaboration between:
• Higher Education (HE)
• Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers
• Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
https://creativeskillsweek.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Call-for-Contributions_V2.pdf
End Date06 Apr 2025 Funding AmountN/A Funding Resource TypeVisibility
Funding ProviderCreative Skills Week
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Creative Skills Week
Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) is a key meeting point for the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries (CCSI), focused on lifelong learning, re-skilling, and upskilling. It facilitates collaboration between:
• Higher Education (HE)
• Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers
• Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
https://creativeskillsweek.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Call-for-Contributions_V2.pdf
• Engage with topics including:
Skills for the Digital Transition
• Skills for Green Transformation
• Open & Cross-Sectoral Innovation
• Entrepreneurial Skills
• Micro-credentials
• Regional Partnerships
• Skills for Social Transition, Diversity, and Inclusion
• Access to Funding
• The Value of Culture
• AI and Ethics
Selection Criteria
• Innovative Approaches:
Address life-long learning, re-skilling and up-skilling in the CCSI; focus on future skills and competencies, triple transformation (green, digital, social), trends and needs for the Cultural and Creative Sector.
• Collaboration and Learning:
Showcase the impact of European and regional ecosystem collaboration involving HE institutions, VET providers, SMEs, or policymakers. Share lessons-learned, failures and wins on cross-sector and cross-generational activities.
• Alignment with CCSI Vision:
Support the sector as a driver of sustainable cultural and ecological development beyond its economic impact, addressing themes like diversity and inclusion, the value of culture, democracy, and ethics in AI.
Additional criteria:
• Geographical, Stakeholder, and Content Balance:
Ensure diverse representation across regions, stakeholder groups, and thematic content.
• Quality and Engagement
Favor innovative quality of the content presented and interactive approaches that stimulate engagement. Strong added value for proposals involving youth and students.
Preferable:
• Proposals from members of the Creative Pact for Skills or affiliated signatory organisations (for example, a member of a network).
• Proposals that align with the Creative Pact for Skills Manifesto
https://ecbnintra.notion.site/Creative-Pact-for-Skills-C-P4S-Manifesto-7ab34b220bf54dfc98fb7bac8ad93627
