
Join us on our journey!
EIT Culture & Creativity is calling for your proposals to be included in the Business Plan 2024–25.
We invite you to take part in shaping the first foundations of our emerging ecosystem with activities in the different areas of EDUCATION, INNOVATION, CREATION and SOCIETY.
Download the entire Call Document here and find detailed information on each Call below.
THIS ROUND OF CALLS IS CLOSED.
We are supporting Europe’s CCSI to innovate for a better Europe

Europe needs the Cultural & Creative Sectors & Industries – the CCSI – as one of the key drivers of a novel innovation model that will help the EU to prosper in times of disruption and transformation.
We believe: Cultural & Creative Sectors & Industries have the power and potential to be the real game changer!
With our first round of open, challenge-based and mission-driven Calls, we invite you to co-create our common future in Europe with your innovative, creative and disruptive ideas and proposals.
The EIT Culture & Creativity puts cross-innovation and cross-fertilization of different sectors and areas, ideas and players at the forefront. Together with the EIT and eight other Innovation Communities we promote and support the collaboration
of education, business, and research dimensions and organisations – called the Knowledge Triangle Integration – and we extend it to the public authorities and civil society.
We believe: with diversity, culture & creativity we can empower the next generation of innovators to address the global challenges!
With these first Calls – together with you – EIT Culture & Creativity will lay the foundations to unleash the transformative potential of CCSI across nations, disciplines and the wider society, to spearhead the Triple Transitions – the digital, green and social transformations – because we believe: the Cultural & Creative Sectors & Industries will be one of the main drivers of a liveable and sustainable future!
Creatives without borders – Innovation without limits
1. Our Calls for Proposals
2. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Within the following document we are providing answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Please read carefully and check regularly for updates.
3. Supporting Documentation
Please download, for your information, the supporting Call documents including:
- Project Management Guidance
- PIC Registration Guidance
- General Model Grant Agreement
- Partnership Agreement
- List of Participating Countries in Horizon Europe
- Declaration of Honour (DoH)
- Sub-grant Agreement (Financial Support Agreement between EIT CC and a successful activity)
- Membership Factsheet
4. Membership Factsheet
All information on EIT Culture & Creativity membership and membership fees can be found in the document below.
EDUCATION
Action Programme 1: Talent Scaler (Call 1) – CLOSED
The objective of this Call is to develop new EIT labelled Master’s programmes that advance and future proof the European CCSI. These programmes will empower the next generation of socially conscious graduates with the skills and experience to foster societal transformation and economic development through creative thinking and the arts.
IMPORTANT: Please make sure that before applying you download and complete the relevant Call Forms from which you can then copy the information to the Application System.

Action Programme 2: Skills Fitter (Call 2) – CLOSED
The objective of this Call is to support the development and delivery of new lifelong learning courses, renewing and refreshing the skills of professionals and practitioners active in CCSI fields. The activities shall provide structured access to crucial entrepreneurial and cross-cutting competencies such as business and financial management, use of emerging technologies for improving their competitiveness, and ethical, sustainable and business models.
IMPORTANT: Please make sure that before applying you download and complete the relevant Call Forms from which you can then copy the information to the Application System.

INNOVATION
Action Programme 3: Breakthrough Lab (Call 3) – CLOSED
The objective of this Call is to support innovations building on creative solutions to tackle the major challenges facing the CCSI as well as global challenges addressed by CCSI. We aim for projects that develop disruptive products and services that can be used in the CCSI and beyond targeting mainly five high impact markets Architecture, Audio-visual, Cultural Heritage, Design and Fashion and Textile.
IMPORTANT: Please make sure that before applying you download and complete the relevant Call Forms from which you can then copy the information to the Application System.

CREATION
Action Programme 5: Venture Factory (Call 4) – CLOSED
The objective of this Call is to support the creation and growth of sustainable CCSI businesses that share EIT Culture & Creativity’s vision of the future. Building on the growth and impact potential of CCSI enterprises we look for business support programmes such as incubation and acceleration that cater to the specificities of CCSI and support scalable, business-savvy ventures both for profit and non-profit.
IMPORTANT: Please make sure that before applying you download and complete the relevant Call Forms from which you can then copy the information to the Application System.

SOCIETY
Action Programme 8: Community Catalyser (Call 5) – CLOSED
The objective of this Call is to address the social fragmentation by providing spaces for communities to cohesively create a future of Europe for all. Specifically, the activities will seek to strengthen the sense of belonging by fostering civic participation and encouraging social and cultural entrepreneurship through CCSI-driven social innovation, resulting in products, services and models that address social needs while create social relationships and form new collaborations.
IMPORTANT: Please make sure that before applying you download and complete the relevant Call Forms from which you can then copy the information to the Application System.

Any questions?
If you have any questions regarding the call, please check the full document
and the FAQs to see if your inquiry has been answered in one of these documents.
If not, please send an e-mail to calls@eit-culture-creativity.eu and we will
do our best to get back to you as quickly as possible.

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