EMCCINNO
EMpowering CCIs to boost systemic INNOvation for sustainable climate transition
Climate change is a pressing threat, and Europe faces a significant challenge to address it urgently. The EU has set ambitious climate goals, such as the Green Deal's target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. But this challenge also involves deep social and cultural transformations. Within this context, the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) play a crucial role in the climate transition by raising awareness, changing imaginaries and contributing to economic sustainability and innovation.
However, CCIs, particularly small and medium-sized organisations, are vulnerable due to limited resources and fragmentation, emphasized by the negative consequences of climate change. They urgently require tested tools to enhance their capacity for rapid adaptation and making meaningful contributions to the climate transition.
Cultural and Artistic Social Enterprises within CCIs, work in close proximity to citizens and cooperation with local actors, which makes them uniquely able to identify emerging social and environmental demands. Based on this citizen and creative-driven knowledge, they propose innovative and creative solutions, having a unique potential of influencing values and attitudes and inspiring blueprints within the sector and beyond.
The EMCCINNO project (EMpowering CCIs to boost systemic INNOvation for sustainable climate transition) brings together the fields of CCIs, climate transition, and social enterprises. It aims to refine, test, validate and scale sustainable business models, implementing them into prototypes for real-world impact within small and medium-sized CCIs.
Focusing on cultural and artistic social enterprises, the project involves five diverse organisations from five EU Member States that will design, and test prototypes based on their sustainability transition needs, supported by researchers throughout the process, thus contributing to the EU's climate goals.
Thios European project is coordinated at CNRS - Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique by Francesca Petrella and involves 13 scientific and arts and culture partners. CES and Culture Action Europe are responsible for WP6 – Scaling impact and consolidating at the EU level.
Funded by the Horizon Europe Programme, of the European Commission, ref. 101178706.
At the trans-local level, EMCCINNO will produce a set of measures that are transferable and scalable and could be adopted by various entities from different CCIs. The process of refinement and trial will be systematised in a framework of sustainable business models and specific tools. These will be available on an open website as interconnected modular components.
A learning community will be established amongst EMCCINNO partners. This community will share scientific, artistic, and practical knowledge along the prototyping and systematising process, contributing both to the individual trials and to the common objectives. This community will be extended beyond the project boundaries by setting up a Community of Practice (CoP), supporting the dissemination and adoption of these tools by different CCIs.
Training sessions, open to small/medium CCIs in each country, will be organised based on a curriculum and materials produced during the project. After the project's completion, these materials will be ready to deliver training for interested entities in the CCI sector.
The trials, the CoP, the involvement of policy-makers, of and CAE and EMES stakeholders will produce policy recommendations at the European level.
Artistic interventions and scientific publications will be produced to disseminate the results of the project.
AMU - Universite D'aix Marseille
Be.Time
CNRS - Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (coord.)
Culture Action Europe
EMES - International Research Network
Friche La Belle De Mai
GFZ - Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches Geoforschungszentrum
Greenformation KFT
JAAC - Jazz Ao Centro Clube
KÖME - Kulturalis Orokseg Menedzserek Egyesulete
Nomad Garden SL
ZK/U - Kunstrepublik E.V.