Cultural and Creative Industries

Creative Compass Georgia is a four-year EU-funded project implemented and co-funded by Goethe-Institut Georgia. It fosters sustainable growth and employment in cultural and creative industries (CCI) across Georgia. The project supports CCI development through funding, capacity building, creative spaces, networking, and knowledge exchange.

EU4Culture is a four-year project funded by the European Union to assist cities in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region in developing and implementing their Cultural Development Strategies following the model of the European Capitals of Culture.

House of Europe is an EU-funded programme fostering professional and creative exchange between Ukrainians and their colleagues in EU countries and the UK. The programme focuses on different professional fields: culture and creative industries, education and youth work, social entrepreneurship, and media.

With the project Unternehmen - START, the Goethe-Institutes in France and the Institut français Germany have created the largest Franco-German exchange platform in the field of cultural and creative industries.

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

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.

Creative FLIP - Finance, Learning, Innovation and Patenting is an EU-co-funded pilot project that aims 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 were the main focus of FANTASMEEM.

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

With its KHAN AL FAN project, the Goethe-Institut Iraq promoted 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 offered 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 was strengthened through integrative educational and promotional offers, for example, for the qualification and development of different business models.

The Cav’ Platform project aimed to coordinate the local CCI sector through networking and creating possibilities for the visibility of the industry, as well as for the cultural 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 implemented formats for the development of concrete career perspectives in the creative sector in close cooperation with local actors.