Creative Skills Week 2025

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The Call for Contributions is open! Submit your projects, online events, and topic-specific proposals.

CSW2025 invites visionary projects, bold experiments, and fresh contributions to shape this year’s programme. Whether you’re an educator testing new teaching methods, a creative professional developing innovative skills training, or a policymaker shaping frameworks for re-skilling and up-skilling, this is your opportunity to share your work, collaborate, and lead the change.

We welcome proposals for:

project presentation (in-person and online)
online events to be part of CSW2025′ programme on 22 or 26 September 2025,
and topic-specific proposals*.

For topic-specific proposals, we are looking for a range of projects, research, and work on topics including skills for the digital, green, and social transitions; the value of culture; access to funding; AI and ethics; entrepreneurial skills; open & cross-sectoral innovation; and micro-credentials.

Read the full call for contributions here.

Complete the submission form here by 6 April 2025.

For more information, visit the Creative Skills Week website.

SAVE THE DATE

In its 3rd edition, Creative Skills Week 2025 will be take place from 22 to 26 September, in Prague, Czechia!

ABOUT

Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) will serve as a central hub for the Cultural and Creative Sector and Industries (CCSI), offering a dedicated platform for sharing knowledge and promoting new approaches to re-skilling and up-skilling.

The event is designed to facilitate knowledge exchange and the adoption of innovative skilling practices, while strengthening collaborations between Higher Education (HE), Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers, and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) within the CCSI. Through peer-to-peer learning and the CYANOTYPES training programme, CSW2025 seeks to enhance skills within the sector and anticipate future trends and competencies.

Additionally, the initiative aims to highlight the importance of the CCSI by fostering discussions on establishing local ecosystem partnerships and engaging policymakers.

Creative Skills Week 2025 emphasises the vital role of the CCSI, not only as an economic driver but also as a transformative force for sustainable cultural development across Europe.

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CSW2025 is an initiative of the Creative Pact for Skills, powered by SACCORD (Erasmus+ Forward-Looking Project Scheme co-funded by the European Commission Erasmus+ Programme) in association with CYANOTYPES (Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills co-funded by the European Commission Erasmus+ Programme).

ELIA and Creative Prague are the main organisers of Creative Skills Week 2025.