This 3rd Creative Skills Week was all about the discussion on the competences needed for a resilient and future-ready creative and culture sector. Topics were f.e. the green transition, digital transformation and AI, cross-sectoral innovation, micro-credentials and, of course, funding. 

Some 250 policy makers, educators, artists and sector organisations were present in Prague to discuss developments in person for two days. An online program with many more participants filled the rest of the week with discussions and workshops. The Creative Skills Week is co-organised by EIT Culture & Creativity, the Creative Pact for Skills, Cyanotypes and Saccord.

As Creative FLIP, we presented a workshop on Impact Mapping and Funding. More and more funders do no longer want to finance only activities but are looking for real change. But how do you prove this change, this impact you make as an organisation or artist? Our topic experts Joost Heinsius and Isabelle de Voldere showed new developments on impact funding, possibilities on mapping and measuring impact and recent growth of impact funding and investing. How will the present tension between accountability towards funders and the need to autonomous experimentation and learning be solved? For many of the 50 participants in the room and many more online this was a first encounter with the concept of impact mapping and funding.