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.

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?’ 

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?

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 e.g. also depends on categorization, on a distinction of what is to be measured, and what not.  

In this panel 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. 

Some questions we might tackle: What is the drawback of Eurostat’s current definition of CCSI-relevant and -irrelevant occupations? Could a more finely-grained categorization (in terms of occupations, and skills) cover the CCSI more comprehensively? Is it at all possible or even desirable to clearly define CCSI-relevant occupations and skills, and to group these into mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive categories? Maybe a different style of categorization, e.g. one based on prototypes, is better suited for the highly volatile and cross-sectoral nature of the CCSI?

Remember your last campfire? Cosy atmosphere, a group of like-minded people informally exchanging. It’s where great ideas are born! 

During the proposed sessions we aim to transfer exactly that setting, offering a platform for exchange among sector representatives and other interested audiences. Each session is kick-started by an inspirational story from our own Creative FLIP community members, providing food for thought on various transversal topics of relevance (not only) for the Cultural and Creative Sectors. Social inclusion, sustainability & greening, and forms of innovation & experimentation in artistic practices.