What we do
CREAConnect aims to tackle critical challenges facing the cultural and creative sectors, including fostering transnational collaboration, enhancing innovation, promoting sustainability, and encouraging social inclusion. With an ambitious agenda, the project is built around three core actions:
A Support Program
A capacity-building initiative designed to strengthen skills, encourage collaboration, and foster innovation among participants.
Thematic Hackathons
Five international events where multidisciplinary teams will tackle pressing issues, supported by mentors and evaluated by European experts.
Promotion & Capitalization
A strategy to showcase and scale the project’s outcomes, ensuring long-term impact.
Hackathons
CREAConnect will organise 5 hackathons throughout the 3-year project.
1st Hackathon
Visualizing Data-Driven Tourism Transformation
May 16-18, 2025
Florence, Italy 🇮🇹
Hosted by Lama
2nd Hackathon
Improving the well-being of women in public space
December 10-12, 2025
Marseille, France 🇫🇷
Hosted by Friche la Belle de Mai
News
Applications Open for the CREAConnect Brussels Hackathon
Applications Open for the CREAConnect Brussels Hackathon Applications are now open for the third CREAConnect Hackathon, taking place [...]
Registration for the Marseille hackathon is now open: Discover the topic
Improving the well-being of women in public space Public space plays an important role in our quality of [...]
🌍 Meet the Mentors of Florence Hackathon
🌍 Meet the Mentors of Florence Hackathon As the first Hackathon of the CREAConnect project gets underway in [...]
🔍 Redefining Cities through Data and Design: Introducing the CREAConnect Florence Hackathon
🔍 Redefining Cities through Data and Design: Introducing the CREAConnect Florence Hackathon As part of the CREAConnect project’s [...]
