The Collab 4 HY Sustain CCI project launches an open call to support 15 EU CCI’s organizations whose goal is to innovate. The project will accompany the selected candidates in a 16 months long journey aimed at fostering processes or products in the field of audience engagement and sustainability.

Collab 4 HY Sustain CCI CALL will also offers € 3000 to selected CCI’s that want to gain capacity or/and design products or processes related to 2 priorities:

AUDIENCES and HYBRID APPROACHES
  • Innovation in the value chain of artistic and cultural offers allowing (in situ + digital) audience engagement and participation
  • Hybrid arts and cultural marketing strengthening culture participatory processes
  • Improved management of audience monitoring and impact assessment using data
  • Inclusive and gender equality principles in structuring co-creation processes, including migrant communities
  • Green agenda motivating audience participation
SUSTAINABILITY in PROCESSES OF COLLABORATION
  • Cross-sectoral practices connecting arts/culture + other industry sectors (e.g. bioindustry/energy/ transport)
  • Cross-sectoral practices connecting arts/culture + social innovation (post-industrial communities, post-agrarian communities, new value chain principles, engaging volunteers, public foundations and agencies not least those created for large scale activities such as the European Capitals of Culture)
  • Cross-sectoral practices connecting arts/culture + new digital industries (e.g., serious games industry, the new digital crafts industry)

The call is closed. It was divided into two phases

PHASE I: Proposal Submission

CALL FOR CANDIDATES

Submission of proposal from any CCI organisation that meets ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA.

Eligible organisations

Organisations must be working in the EU cultural and creative sectors: contemporary arts/performances, entertainment or mixed audience offers; post-agricultural or post-urban cultural activities merging culture and inclusion priorities, cultural heritage etc, either cultural institutions, nonprofit organizations, startups, social enterprises, academic institutions, community-based organizations, and any other entities engaged in the intersection of culture, science and technology (no exhaustive list).

They must be active in 1 of the priorities of the project and ready to INTAKE innovation. Priorities will be given to activities based in partnering countries – Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Denmark – or cross-border initiatives that have partners in one of the countries mentioned above.

PHASE II: Collaboration & Support

MENTORS’ MATCH

Each CCIs selected will be matched with one of the 15 mentors/experts that joined the project. Before starting, you will have the chance to meet them, get to know each other and design the mentorship programmes that suit your needs the best.

  1. Incubation process made of matching with an expert to mentor the project that will last 16 months, 1 preparatory session and 4 knowledge-sharing sessions.
  2. Micro-grant (3.000 euro), to undertake an incubation-based prototyping effort leading to a demonstration or improved result for future implementation
  3. Visibility and showcase opportunities in hybrid events
  4. SEE regional network and EU collaboration opportunities
  • Concrete: Project proposal should have measurable impact in one of the two innovation priorities.
  • Sustainable: Market and innovation potential should be explained both for Priority 1 Audience or Priority 2 Sustainability.
  • Feasible: The proposing organisation should clearly demonstrate knowledge and technical feasibility (resources, skills and infrastructure) and applicants should take into account the capacity to embed the demonstration/piloting experience in the local context.

July 3st, 2023: Call for submissions opens.
September 30th, 2023, at 5 PM CET: Application deadline.
October 2023: Evaluation process ends.
December 2023: Incubation activities starts

Incubation process duration: 16 months

In the midst of complexity, to share a common ground of understanding is the key to unroll complication and evolve. In a nutshell, concepts  are important. They are raw building blocks that we can use to express thoughts and ideas, share information, understand others and grow personal relationships. Like spells, words make things exist, real and usable only at the moment and in the way they are named by us and others. 

Below you find a first AID – Collab 4 HySust CCI – glossary kit to support your application and open a common ground of exchange and understanding, starting from the meaning of words, especially for those used within the sphere of innovation. 

Applicants will be invited to participate in the preparatory session at the Transnational Launch Event taking place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and online, September 1st. You will be expected to contribute your own experiences and learn from others, benefiting from a safe and trusted environment.
Also possible in hybrid attendance!

The supported organizations will participate actively in 4 knowledge sharing sessions, two of which will be conducted in a hybrid format. Two of them will be fully online and two in hybrid format, so more organisations can join the networking and benefit from shared know-how, insights, and tools.

Have a look at all the questions before to fill in the form >>

For more information, you can contact the following emails in each partner country:

Bulgaria: info@inter-cultura.eu

Denmark: info@detflyvendeteater.dk

Greece: synergasia.org@gmail.com

Italy: angeladibenedetto@materahub.com / paolomontemurro@materahub.co 

Serbia: ivan@novaiskra.com