EIT Culture & Creativity – we turn the innovation of Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries into societal impact by facilitating long term partnerships with a purpose

EIT Culture & Creativity (EIT CC) is a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Its purpose is to help all players in the European Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI) to turn innovation into societal impact.

By fostering interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial collaboration for stakeholders from education, innovation, research, business and culture, EIT CC provides new connections and unique opportunities from its European innovation community across 15 sectors and 30 nations.

EIT CC´s vision is to fundamentally change the CCSI towards new understandings of competitiveness, resilience, and sustainable economic growth.

EIT CC empowers businesses, universities, research organisations and cultural institutions, NGOs or cities and regions through its supporting and co-financing programmes, for example by

• setting up innovative HEI education or professional training,
• implementing innovative products and services,
• incubating start-ups or scaling organisations to compete in global markets.

These support programmes are launched openly and annually.

In addition, EIT CC offers tailored access to public and private capital, talents and markets as well as cities and regions to leverage and multiply the impact of the CCSI.

In contrast to many funding programmes, EIT CC looks for long-term partnerships beyond the funding period to implement commercially successful innovations in markets, and to generate revenue as well as long-term impacts.

For its partners, EIT Culture & Creativity offers a unique value-added that one alone cannot attained otherwise, for example, through its innovation ecosystem, services in markets, early insights in policy, and thought leadership.

Read about the EIT Culture & Creativity governance, its strategic objectives, activities and KPIs in the coming years in the EIT Culture & Creativity Strategic Agenda 2024-2027. Read more.

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