Cultural and Creative Industries

“RESONANCE – Platform for Cultural and Creative Industries” is a programme initiated by the Goethe-Institut network in France to promote the cultural and creative industries in Europe. It brings together a new generation of young creatives from Germany and France to work in tandem, thus facilitating innovative Franco-German collaborations at the interface of culture, business and technology.

Cities Ahead is a European programme initiated by the Goethe-Institut that promotes the transformation of creative places. Its aim is to transform the city into an ideal ecosystem for culture and creativity, harnessing its full potential for global dissemination and international cultural cooperation.

As founding member of the new innovation community EIT Culture & Creativity, Goethe-Institut joins forces with leading companies, higher education institutions and research centers to strengthen the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI). The aim is to position the CCSI as central players in the Digital and Green Transformation and to promote innovation.

Creatives Unite is a platform by the cultural & creative sectors for the cultural & creative sectors that gathers in all initiatives and information related to the CCI sector in the EU with respect to response to the COVID crisis.

Creative FLIP - Finance, Learning, Innovation and Patenting is an EU co-funded pilot project whose main objective is to promote sound and sustainable ecosystems for the cultural and creative industries in relation to these four key policy areas.

The Culture and Creative Industries (CCI) Contact Desk was established as part of the Interreg project Creative Ports, which ran from 2019 to 2022. The aim of the project was to promote the internationalization and collaborative value creation of the cultural and creative industries in the Baltic Sea region.

Creative entrepreneurship, network building and (continuing) qualification of Lebanese designers with the goal of acting as multipliers within their scene are the main focus of FANTASMEEM.

Creating, creating, developing together - young designers and creative entrepreneurs in Jordan are supported by various learning opportunities to build networks, establish cooperation and become creative together.

With its KHAN AL FAN project, the Goethe-Institut Iraq is promoting the emerging market of cultural and creative industries, the entrepreneurial and political perception of the sector, and the development of employment prospects in Iraq.

Goethe-Institut Senegal offers sustainable training for professionals from various cultural fields, especially music, fashion and journalism.

The sustainable expansion and promotion of the cultural and creative industries in Kenya is strengthened by means of integrative educational and promotional offers, e.g. for the qualification and development of different business models.

The Cav’ Platform project aims to coordinate the CCI through networking and creating possibilities for the visibility of the Industry, as well as for the CCI ecosystem to recognise each other and the work the various parts are doing to further develop the industry.

To counteract high youth unemployment, this programme implements formats for the development of concrete career perspectives in the creative sector in close cooperation with local actors.