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Creative Skills Week 2025: Call for Contributions

Be part of a space of continuous experimentation, collaboration, and skills development. Present your project, host your online event as part of CSW2025’s programme, or submit a topic-specific proposal to shape the conversation on key themes. 

The Call for Contributions for Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) is now closed.

Join us for Creative Skills Week 2025 from 22 – 26 September in Prague.

In an ever-evolving world we must embrace new approaches, rethinking how we teach, learn, and apply skills. Now is the time: Create. Transform. Regenerate. How can we collectively refine our processes and build a future-proof workforce?

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.

Creative Skills Week 2025 is a key meeting point for the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries (CCSI), focused on lifelong learning, re-skilling, and up-skilling. It facilitates collaboration between Higher Education (HE), Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers, and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).

CSW encourages dialogue on building local partnerships and engaging policymakers, emphasising CCSI’s role in driving the economy and shaping sustainable cultural development across Europe.