EIT Culture & Creativity information event
Time: March 17th 2023, 12.15 – 13.15
Location: R038/V001 (School of Business)

The new partnership can expect EUR 300 million of grant under to strengthen and transform Europe’s Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI) by connecting creatives and organisations to Europe’s largest innovation network.
At the event we will inform you what EIT Culture & Creativity is, how it works, and how you can participate.
Please, register to the event to confirm your attendance.
Programme:
- Welcome: Tomi Erho (Head of Innovation Ecosystem Services)
- What is EIT Culture & Creativity: Kai Huotari (EIT C&C, CLC North)
- EIT Culture & Creativity’s first call for proposals (based on available information)
- What is EIT: Aalto and previous EIT KICs
- Q&A
- Next steps, deadlines
(Not yet available, set to open in Q1/23)
For more infomation about the upcoming call, please join (for Aalto staff).
is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). It is a Knowledge and Innovation Community designed to strengthen and transform Europe’s Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI) by connecting creatives and organisations to Europe’s largest innovation network. For the next 7 years, EIT Culture & creativity will:
- empower and connect creatives and innovators across Europe and contribute to a more resilient, more sustainable, and transformational sector.
- unlock latent value from a multitude of small cultural and creative stakeholders through technology transfer, improved cross-sectoral collaboration and their effective integration in production value networks.
- strengthen artistic driven innovation as an indispensable part of the European Innovation Ecosystem.
- reinforce the appreciation and anchoring of European values, and identities.
- harness the unique position of the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries to facilitate Europe’s Green, Digital and Social transitions.
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