CREASUS (2023 - 2026)
- Project Type
- Sustainable business models for arts & culture
- Title
- CREASUS (2023 - 2026)
- Release Date
- 2023
- Irish Partner
- Innovation & Management Centre (WestBIC)
- Co-Partners
- Lead partner: FUNDACION BANCO SANTANDER, Spain
- KOINONIKI SYNETAIRISTIKI EPICHEIRISI SYLLOGIKIS KAI KOINONIKIS OFELEIAS - MOSAIC POLITISMOS KAI DIMIOURGIKOTITA, Greece
- RESEAU EUROPEEN POUR LE MANAGEMENT ET LES POLITIQUES CULTURELLES,Belgium
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO, Italy
- ZABALA INNOVATION CONSULTING SA, Spain
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2023
- Funding Amount
- €806,296
CreaSus will help strengthen Cultural and Creative Sectors build resilience by ensuring the sustainability of their business models and guiding them to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, stimulating the growth of strong and competitive European CCISs of all sizes to be able to compete with global players.
What Are The Aims of The CreaSus Project?
CreaSus aims to guide cultural and creative industries towards adapting practices that benefit society and the environment, ensuring they are profitable and sustainable for future generations, by:
- Positioning CCSIs as key-contributors to avoid or reduce negative impact on the environment, recognising their role as vital sources of wealth, prosperity, and European unity through cultural diversity.
- Increasing and sharing academic knowledge on the topic in close collaboration with CCSIs managers and professionals seeking to leverage business strategies based on sustainability innovations.
- Establishing culture both as a vehicle for European social cohesion and the promotion of European democratic and humanist values, and as a source of economic development, social prosperity and sustainable innovation.
- Boosting the competitiveness and the economic potential of all sectors whose activities are based on cultural or artistic values and other individual or collective creative expressions.
- Raising awareness about sustainability topics by helping CCSIs adapt their offer and work, helping them adapt to the fast-changing audience demand and supporting them in innovation uptake.
- Empowering CCSIs to integrate sustainable practices by providing them with an efficient and clear system of indicators for measuring and assessing sustainability within their organisation, and by sharing sustainable business models along with a sustainability funding schemes toolkit to guide them throughout implementation.
CreaSus actions will include:
- A toolkit for funding schemes. This toolkit will help CCSIs professionals and managers see sustainability not as an extra cost but as an opportunity to improve their operations and explore new sustainable opportunities.
- Develop a set of indicators for to help CCSIs measure how well they're doing in reducing their negative impact on the environment and considering social factors.
- Working with CCIs to create and implement actions for sustainable transformation, offering guidance and training through the CreaSus self-assessment platform.
- The project will also provide a toolkit for navigating financial and market opportunities related to adopting sustainable practices.
Irish Partner
Innovation & Management Centre (WestBIC). WestBIC is the Official EU Business and Innovation Centre for Ireland's Border, Midlands and Western Region. We provide a free advisory service and a professional funding application development service for single entities and consortia. WestBIC, established in 1987 helps to create jobs and build wealth in the region with local offices in Galway, Mayo, Roscommon and Donegal to facilitate this.