The new European Policy Platform team (European Culture and Creativity Innovation Policy Platform) started on 1 June 2023 with partners from all over Europe gathering in Lund. The team shall, on behalf of European Commission develop policy recommendations to promote innovation in the cultural and creative industries.

“We need cultural and creative skills to succeed in the green transition. This kind of expertise plays a crucial role in creating radically new solutions to complex societal challenges,” says Charlotte Lorentz Hjorth, project manager for ekip i Lund University Text.

An example of an area where new solutions are in demand is textile consumption, which ranks fourth in terms of environmental and climate impact in the Union. To meet these and other challenges and to promote innovation within the EU, EIP will collect policy areas from actors across Europe, rank them and select five per year to be processed through ekip's policy engine. Ekip's policy engine can be used to develop policy recommendations that support the green transition demanded by the EU. It is also about looking at innovation in new ways so that more players can benefit from innovation support. With today's structures, it is often difficult for cultural and creative industries to benefit from the subsidies.

- This is a different project, says project developer Katarina Scott at Future by Lund. We will work on policy generation by picking policy areas from the network and “dressing” those areas by choosing what to do, how to do it and why we should do it. This interaction results in a policy formulation.

The project shall, inter alia, contribute to the following:

• Establishing and developing a network of and for cultural and creative industries in the EU;

• Well-founded and prioritised recommendations for EU policies on research and innovation and other key areas for KKN, such as contributing to the 2030 goals of the European Green Deal.

• Structurally strengthening cooperation between KKN actors across sectoral, geographical and cultural boundaries, but also between KKN and other economic sectors in order to strengthen KKN's innovation-driving role.

• Preparing European KKN actors for the green and digital transition.

Future by Lund is an affiliate partner of Lund University. Lunds will contributeThe Liept model that Future by Lund and Lund University have developed together.

The project, which runs for 3.5 years, is part of EIT Culture & Creative, which is the ninth KIC project in the EU. At Lund University, KIC projects are managed through the EIT office at LU Samverkan.

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Facts team (European Culture and Creativity Innovation Policy Platform)

Financier: European Commission

Financing: 68 million SEK

Project Time: June 2023 — December 2026

Project Manager: Charlotte Lorentz Hjorth

Project partners: Lund University, Creative Business Network, Beeld & Geluid,The University of Edinburgh, Delft University of Technology, Creativity Lab, MSCOMM, Politecnico Milan, Technopolis grupa, Idea group, Humak, Next Atlas, Gemeente Rotterdam, Metropolitan Institute of Bratislava, Creative industry Kosice, Cite de design, Nuovo momento.

Classification in Future by Lund's database is:

Zone: Green (B)

Layers: ! 2