Support

Support for developing project ideas, applying for funding and project activities. Creative Net provides assistance to those applying for funding within the Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise ESF+ theme, as well as to those who have already received funding.

Creative Net

Theme

Support

Projects

Is your idea suitable for an ESF+ project? Are you looking for tips on how to clarify your idea or turn it into a project? Do you need help in structuring your application?

Creative Net encourages actors in the creative industries to develop project ideas and apply for ESF+ funding. We provide sparring for turning ideas into projects and those interested in ESF+ funding.

Our approach is based on the project criteria of the national Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise ESF+ theme. We also provide assistance with regional ESF+ applications for the creative industries.

Sparring and workshops

Creative Net sparring and workshops offer perspectives on the ESF+ projects, as well as tips for clarifying and co-developing project ideas. Our sparring sessions focus on specific ideas, while our workshops develop ideas together with others.

The themes of our sparring and workshops include, for example:

Networking and co-development
Clarifying ideas
Making ideas applicable for ESF+ funding
Developing project communications
Refining applications

We organise open sparring sessions and workshops at various creative industry events. The sparring sessions are held mostly in Finnish, but you can also present your own idea in English.

You can also request project-specific sparring, which we provide free of charge: [email protected]

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Events

Kolme hahmoa vierekkäin vaaleanpunaisella taustalla. Teksti: Luova verkko, Taiteen edistämiskeskus, Euroopan unionin osarahoittama.

Event

20.9.2023 - 16.11.2023

From idea to project – Creative Net sparring and workshops

Taike’s Creative Net project provides sparring and workshops for those interested in funding within the Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise theme (ESF+). Our sparring and workshops provide useful perspectives on clarifying project ideas, co-development and project communications. Events will be held across Finland this autumn.

Materials for applicants

Tips for clarifying ideas. What should be taken into consideration when planning your idea from the point of view of ESF+ funding? Creative Net’s idea sheet can help you structure your project ideas. Download the idea sheet (pdf in Finnish only).

ESF+ application info materials, 15 March 2023. The application info provides useful information about the contents of ESF+ calls for applications, evaluation criteria and cost models, for example. Application info materials can be downloaded from the Structural Funds website (in Finnish only).

Funding info materials, 16 March 2023. These materials provide an overview of funding sources for the creative industries, also other than ESF+ funding. Download the presentation material (pdf in Finnish only).