Creative Skills Week 2026 taking place in Brussels from 7–9 September, places creative confidence at the heart of the discussion and the CYANOTYPES project is going to be there as a co-organizer.
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Creative Skills Week 2026, taking place in Brussels from 7–9 September, will bring together policymakers, educators, cultural organisations and creative professionals to explore how creative skills can help Europe respond to today's social, digital and environmental challenges.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, CYANOTYPES is a pan-European initiative that brings together 20 consortium members and 28 associated partners to rethink how future skills are developed across the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). Rather than viewing skills as fixed competencies, the project promotes adaptive learning systems that enable creative professionals and organisations to respond to rapidly changing technological, societal and environmental contexts.
Creative Skills Week marks an important milestone for the project. Throughout the three-day programme, CYANOTYPES will showcase the outcomes of its work, demonstrating how its framework is being applied in real-world settings across higher education, vocational education and training, SMEs, cultural organisations and creative ecosystems.
A key highlight of the programme is the CYANOTYPES Pilots Showcase. Visitors will discover how the CYANOTYPES Framework is helping translate creative competences into practice. The showcase will be complemented by an immersive opening experience inspired by the project's pilot activities, before feeding into the event's high-level policy debate on the role of creative confidence in Europe's future competitiveness, democratic resilience and innovation capacity.
Creative Skills Week 2026 places creative confidence at the heart of the discussion, the ability to transform creative thinking into action, collaborate across disciplines and develop innovative responses to complex challenges.
As a partner in CYANOTYPES, ECHN is proud to contribute to a project that is helping shape the future of skills development across Europe's cultural and creative sectors. The prominence of CYANOTYPES within Creative Skills Week reflects the project's growing impact and provides an important opportunity to share its emerging framework, pilot experiences and policy recommendations with a wide European audience.
Creative Skills Week 2026 is co-organised by EIT Culture & Creativity, CYANOTYPES and Creative Futures Academy, in collaboration with the Creative Pact for Skills, CREDEX and the GreenCCIrcle project. The event is hosted by ICHEC Brussels Management School and LUCA School of Arts, and curated by ELIA.
Main Image - Courtesy of European Creative Skills Week 2025.
