Campfire sessions offer a platform for exchange among sector representatives and other interested audiences. Each session is led by two of our own Creative FLIP community members, providing food for thought on transversal topics of relevance (not only) for the Cultural and Creative Sectors.

The challenge of social inclusion through artistic practice and education
Facilitators: Ágnes Pethes, ADD ON & Marton Illes, Independent Theater Hungary

How can we foster social inclusion in young people through artistic work and non-formal education? With a background in theatre, education, and accessibility of (mainly visual) art, Ágnes and Marton will share their good practices and dilemmas, opening the discussion. In their daily work they focus on the empowerment & inclusion of the Roma community as well as the blind and visually impaired in Hungary. They look forward to exchanging about conscious and self-reflective ways of leading and participating in socially responsible artistic practices and educational initiatives.

Empowerment through sustainable maker-practices
Facilitators: Xavier Domínguez & Santi Fuentemilla, FabLab Barcelona

How can sustainable maker-practices serve as a catalyst for empowerment in today's design and educational landscapes? Xavier and Santi will guide you in an interactive session exploring sustainable maker-practices, emphasizing the significance of fab labs, digital fabrication, and the creative process of deriving biomaterials from food waste. They’ll address its practical applications, discuss the complexities of its integration into educational frameworks, and underscore the pivotal role of community engagement, culminating in a hands-on demonstration of the principles discussed.

Bridging the gap between education & work - on the example of good practices in the areas of textile, fashion, entrepreneurship
Facilitators: Tessa Moroder, Lottozero & Pauline Gamore, Le Textile Lab

How can we bridge the gap between formal education and the workforce? In their daily work at Le Textile Lab and Lottozero textile laboratories, Pauline and Tessa interact with and create bridges between schools and universities, current and former students, institutions, creative hubs, job hunters, recruiters and the textile and fashion industry. During this campfire session, they will guide you to map this process, pointing out existing obstacles and opportunities based on their experiences and complementing the scenario together with the group participants.

Experimentation through unexpected partnerships - a spark for creative innovation
Facilitators: Jed Milroy & Claire Docherty , Tinderbox Collective

New collaborations, especially those with partners from different backgrounds to our own, can lead to the most exciting new ideas. In this session Jed and Claire will share some examples of this in their practice at Tinderbox Collective, where they use music and the arts to bring people together and strengthen communities. Together they’ll guide the group participants to discover such possibilities in their own work and – cherry on the cake – find a musical way to share this group’s discussion with others.

International Policies beyond Borders - how to ensure proactive collaborative policies addressing transformation in and with the cultural and creative sectors (CCS)?

The accelerated transformation frameworks like the pandemic, climate change, and considerable geopolitical turmoil affect transformation readiness of the CCS and beyond, on the one hand. On the other, transformation also provides new opportunities in and with the CCS. 

The FLIP transformation policies approach - “From Reaction to Action - Collaborative Transformation Policies in Culture and Beyond for Future-Oriented Policy-Making and Action” - provides orientation for future action involving the different actors in the eco-system with a cross-sectoral approach. 

During this session, we explore how collaborative transformation policies contribute to updated frameworks in the field of International Cultural Relations. How to enhance global cultural cooperation in view of related major transformations and the EU multilevel governance settings? The participative approach in the sessions allows related insights from different backgrounds and horizons.

This is how we work – Status and Working Conditions of Artists and Cultural and Creative Professionals

Working conditions in cultural and creative sectors across the EU differ greatly from country to country, showing quite some diversity of social security and labour frameworks. But the challenges faced by artists and cultural workers are often shared. How can we all learn from this diversity? The Report of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) group, titled ‘The Status and Working Conditions of Artists and Cultural and Creative Professionals’, serves as the foundation for the next crucial step: the establishment of an online platform to facilitate ongoing information exchange and tracking new developments.

During this session, we will introduce the Online Platform on Working Conditions, provide an overview of its initial structure and functionality, and invite your feedback. How should the Platform evolve, who should be involved, and which topics should be covered?’ 

Flipping Forward with IP: Crossing the boundaries together.
Ready to embark on an Intellectual Property journey with us? Join us for an inspiring session that dives deep into the dynamic world of IP with real life cases and discover its profound impact on the creative and cultural universe. 

In an informal and interactive setting, we will:

• explore the different IP learning sources for the CCS to empower the sector, 
• unlock the real-life examples behind the not-so-easy-to-understand IP law,
• unveil the pivotal role of IP in creative clusters in fostering vibrant creative communities,
• listen to the fascinating success story of a musician who has transformed melodies into royalties.
  And who knows, maybe he can even bring his guitar!

We will be also be happy to speak about your own success (or fail!) IP stories, and get your questions. Your journey to go beyond the boundaries begins here by knowing your rights and respecting others’. Then, what are you waiting for?

Dr Karin Drda-Kühn, Learn IP Project Coordinator
Dr Thomas Bürvenich, IP Attorney
Kristian Horsburgh, Luxinnovation Creative Industries Cluster Manager
Georges Goerens a.k.a. Bartleby Delicate, Musician
Moderator: Onur Emul, IPIL

Categorizing CCS - an impossible task?
It is one of our most fundamental cognitive abilities to identify shared features or similarities of objects, events, or ideas, and then to group ("categorize") these in order to make sense of the world. Without categorization, learning, language, memory, decision making (to name a few only) would be impossible. The production of cultural statistics also depends on categorization, on a distinction of what is to be measured, and what not.

In this panel, organized together with the CHARTER project, we want to discuss the benefits but also the dangers of categorization related to the self-image, the measurement, but also the visibility of the CCSI: categorization enables a highlighting of similarities, but it also has the potential to exclude the unforeseen, the evolving, the fringes. 

Our discussion will focus on cultural-creative occupations, and be organised around the following questions:

• To what extend do viewpoint and goals of the “categorizer” shape the categories?
• What are the limitations and dangers of categorizing the occupational scope of the CCS?
• Is it all possible to develop an occupational categorization of the CCS that serves all purposes? If not, how to deal with this dilemma?

Koenraad Polley, ESCO Secretariat, European Commission, DG EMPL
Florian Schneider, NTNU / CYANOTYPES project
Daniel Antal, Data scientist and founder of Reprex B.V.
Moderators: Claudia Plaimauer, Creative FLIP/3s & Elis Marcal, CHARTER project / E.C.C.O.