We unite cultural and creative changemakers across disciplines and geographies to support creative practice for systemic change, co-create transformative spaces, and raise awareness of cultural labour and impact.

Our work is grounded in four interconnected strands: supporting practitioners, co-creating spaces for exchange, advocating for systemic change, and raising awareness of cultural labour and impact.

Inside the 3rd CREAConnect Hackathon in Brussels

The third edition of the CREA.CONNECT Hackathon brought together creative professionals, researchers, designers, and changemakers from across Europe in Brussels to explore how Third Places can strengthen social bonds through culture, creativity, and collaboration....

Visions From Our Network | Silvia Porretta | Nessuno Indietro APS

What Should a Europe-Africa Cooperation Project Leave Behind? Over the last few years, cooperation between Europe and Africa in the cultural and creative sectors has gained newmomentum. New partnerships are emerging, mobility programmes are expanding, and creative...

Visions from Our Network | Kago Monageng | i hearts gabs city

A Decade of Building an Urban Creative Kgotla Based in Gaborone, Botswana, our journey began a decade ago with a simple but ambitious vision: to reimagine the city's oldest and most overlooked public shopping space into a vibrant hub for creativity, culture, community...

Visions from Our Network | Luís Teixeira | Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Maputo Fast Forward: creativity, resilience and human potential Maputo Fast Forward has always represented, for me, much more than a cultural initiative. It is a space that has tried, with determination and imagination, to give voice and life to Mozambique’s creative...

Visions from Our Network | Olabode Moses Leye | “How Africa and Europe Can Build One Another: Lessons From the Frontlines of Culture”

I have spent the last 25 years making films, documentaries, and public art inplaces where “creative infrastructure” is a verb, not a noun. In Kaduna, I coordinated Sahel Art’icipation: Special Inclusion with artists with disabilities. In Accra, I sat in the Generation...

Visions from Our Network | Indraneel Banerjee | Cultur·Able

Cultur·Able works to create more accessible, inclusive, and participative cultural spaces by connecting artists, cultural professionals, students, and communities through education, visibility, and shared experiences. For us, “space” exists both in physical...

Visions from Our Network | Ivana Nikolić | Q’ART

Q'ART began almost a decade ago as an artistic intervention into the everyday logic of the city. What started as a temporary activation of neglected public space in Zagreb gradually evolved into a long-term community art platform exploring how art can regenerate...

Visions from Our Network | Iman Kamel | The Holographic Being

Merysai — A Floating Salon on the Nubian Nile Some of the most important gatherings in history happened in living rooms. Gertrude Stein's apartment in Paris. The house of a Cairo artist in the 1960s where diplomats and painters and poets moved freely between...

Visions from Our Network | Freedom Force | The Green Mandate

Masquerade City: Reclaiming the “Third Place” through Deep Work and Ancestral ModernityMasquerade City, a "Freedom Chimereze Creation," redefines the "Third Place" not just as a space for social gathering, but as a sanctuary for collective intellectual sovereignty....

Visions from Our Network | Natia Meparishvili | Women Council in Georgia/Week of Art

At the Women Business Council in Georgia, we explore how cultural and digital spaces can become meaningful places for connection, participation, and visibility. Through our initiative, Digital Exhibition Week of Women in Art, we have been developing a hybrid cultural...