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Next ECHN Family Online Brunch | Friday August 7th
You are kindly invited to participate in this week’s ECHN Family Online Brunch, where we will continue our series of hub presentations, the Hub Spotlight, which was launched in July’s brunch. During this week’s meetup Rabble Studio and Dinamo10 will be taking the floor, presenting their hubs and initiatives in the CCI sector.

COVID-19 Crisis & CCI Workers Preliminary Pan-European research | Deadline Extension
We would like to inform you that we are extending the survey until September!
It is really important to reach the goal of this survey and boost our efforts to achieve it!
We need as many responses as possible for CCI workers to force local governments and the European Commission to act asap.

Next ECHN Family Online Brunch | Friday 3 July
This week on the ECHN family online brunch we are starting a series of presentations of the member hubs, the Hub Spotlight, and we invite you to participate in.

United for a new future
Last week, Creative FLIP and the European Commission hosted the online Conference United for a new future , the first opportunity since COVID-19 for a direct dialogue of the Cultural and Creative Sectors with Commissioner Gabriel, the European Parliament and the Council.

We are looking for a Community Manager
We are looking for an empathetic and passionate community manager to nourish our community of creative hubs!
Are you the special one?

CreativesUnite online conference on the future of the CCS
For over one month, the CreativesUnite platform has been showcasing CCI initiatives from Europe and beyond as a response to the Covid-crisis that hit the sector so badly. Following a virtual meeting of EU Ministers of Culture held on 19 May 2020, Commissioner Gabriel proposed an online conference with the cultural and creative sectors, where the Commissioner herself and key EU policy-makers would meet CCS stakeholders to reflect on what has been done until now in response to the crisis and to plan together for a new future.
Uniting hubs and hub people.
Training hubs in order to conceive new functional forms that are used,
not only for internal practical purposes
but also for cities where space for creatives, is limited.
In a precarious climate, it is a way to create a safe environment,
which reflects a healthy society and retains creativity at all times
or orientate them so that they absorb maximum attention and help.
These two strategies allow the extension of the capacity,
so that new ideas have enough time to mature,
while the horizontal branch expansion can increase creativity and new ideas production