The Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE) aims to promote the resilience of the cultural and creative economies and strengthen the sector in its innovative power. Through Europe-wide, practice-oriented projects and research, CIRCE emphasises the importance of diverse and open cultural and creative economies that focus on collaboration. By experimenting with new approaches and ideas using creative methods, the network drives social change forward –and thus generates creative impact.

CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

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Fellow

Aiwen Yin

Can web3 technology help socially engaged art become organizationally sustainable, or what the heck is a community?

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Aiwen Yin

Aiwen Yin is a designer, theorist, strategist and project developer, who uses writing, system design, time-based art, institutional practice and

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Alexandra Tzanidou

The Inclusion mille-feuille: Investigating Presence and Representation in immersive art through inclusive immersive theatre

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Alice Zhuravel

Alice Zhuravel is a social entrepreneur hailing from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She has a passion for learning and exploring different fields,

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Amelie Graf

Mattering - paste & pour: Using residual materials from agriculture and food production in product design and architecture

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Anastasia Platonava

The Synergy of Blockchain and AI and its Potential to Reduce the Skills Gap in Europe

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Anna De Mezzo

Where can you live? A board game exploring privileges in the city of Zurich, Switzerland

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Anna Kint

Coconuts Space: Recovery in mental health care from within the creative industry

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Antonia Rohwetter

Antonia Rohwetter works as a dramaturg, researcher, writer and curator in contemporary performing arts and dance. Rather than focusing on

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

arjunraj

The Future of Storytelling: Decolonial Filmmaking Methodology developed while making Liminality, a feature film using Collaborative Storytelling Practices

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

arjunraj

arjunraj is a filmmaker, multimodal researcher and artist. Drawing from a decade of experience in telling stories rooted in embodied

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Barbora Andor Tóthová

Barbora Andor Tóthová graduated in International Business & Arts Management from the University of Economics in Prague. After years of

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Charlie Squire

Slouching: A Field Guide to Art and (un-)Belonging in Europe

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Cheryl Kwok

Should I Stay or Should I Go’: future-proofing the UK music industry by understanding the motivations and challenges of its young creative workforce

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Christine Essling

Potential for innovation? Towards hybrid events – a curator’s approach

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Creative Impact Fund

Civic

The Possible: A Community Action Lab for Recovery & Renewal in Ukraine

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Creative Impact Fund

Club Co-op

Exploring alternative approaches to the dominant models and assumptions surrounding nightlife cultural venues and their status in society

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Fellow

Danica Sretenović

An Exercise in Feral Cartographies

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Dany Garcia-Solano

Design Picnic - A participatory design research method fostering reimagination

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Diana Raiselis

Diana Raiselis is a writer-researcher, facilitator, and cultural manager working at the intersection of culture, urban policy, and civic engagement.

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Creative Impact Fund

embrace3

Developing a needs-based design framework for breast support clothing

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Fellow

Empowering Democracy

As a tech start-up founder and impact-driven entrepreneur, this individual is passionate about building companies and promoting entrepreneurship as a

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Esther Bokuma

Embodying Liberation: Exploring holistic wellness and emergent artist-led models of community care for Black Musicians and Professionals in Britain

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Fabian Frey

Sandwiches – Community Building through Shared Food

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Flore Beaumond

Originally from Brussels, Flore has a background in political science and human rights. She entered international cooperation with a focus

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Creative Impact Fund

Founderland

PAM, Pitch AI Mentor: Helping women of colour and other marginalised entrepreneurs overcome systemic barriers through practicing and enhancing their pitch skills

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

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Gemma Milne

A Confident Friend: Realising the Potential of CCE in Enhancing (Political) Imagination in the New Space Sector

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Hoyee Tse

Diversification vs. Racialisation: the Employment of Asian Museum and Curatorial Professionals in the UK

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Ieva Miltina

Food as a Catalyst in Research Design for the Cultural and Creative Sector

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Isabel Henschen

Isabel Henschen is a Berlin-based conceptual artist and founder of Lou&You, developing the world’s first digital companion for victims of

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Jessica Guy

Design Education for the Pluriverse: A Study of Contemporary Pedagogy, Curricula, and 21st-century Skills and Competencies

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Jorinde Schulz

Jorinde Schulz is the author of “Die Clubmaschine (Berghain)”, a speculative literary essay exploring the myths and machinery of a

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Judith Faßbender

Looking at Menstruation Tracking Apps with a Focus on User Positions Regarding Privacy and Data Collection for Health Research Purposes

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Katja Blazheichuk

Katja is a cultural manager and activist involved in projects in Kyiv and Berlin. Her work centres on cultural diplomacy,

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Kristina Gavran

The Birth Stories Project

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Kübra Karataş

Transforming Cultural Funding – In the search for alternative funding instruments for a financially sustainable Cultural and Creative Sector

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Creative Impact Fund

Kuulu

The problem-solving digital solution that empowers organisations to create tailored DEI plans for overcoming identity-related injustice

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Creative Impact Fund

Lezo

The AI-powered career platform that helps employers find specialists in the creative and tech fields

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Fellow

Lorena Junghans

The Artistic Revolution, Ecosystems of Care: Exploring the influence of traditional and queer social structures on cross-border cultural production

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Luiza Moroz

Navigating Global Competition: Alternative Policy Approaches for the EU´s Creative Industries

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Madeleine Arber

Gaming For Climate Change: The Impact of Minecraft Education: Frozen Planet II worlds on inspiring climate positive behaviours in children

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Maeve Gerding

Doing Solidarity: But How?

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Manik Chander

How to serve our communities by identifying their needs

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Maureen Selina Laverty

Maureen is a fashion designer and action researcher from Ireland, based in Norway. She is specialised in inclusive sensorial design.

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Merje Laiapea

In the Image of All of Us: Exploring new approaches to building and sustaining cultural infrastructure

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Creative Impact Fund

Museum of Homelessness

Making a Museum of Homelessness in a Global Crisis: Reimagining the role of and possibilities for museums in a global polycrisis

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Creative Impact Fund

Myceen

Mycelium Materials: Exploring the potential of mycelium to replace problematic materials in the construction and furniture sectors

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Fellow

Naja Kikelj

UX research service for architecture and urban design

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Nepo Schrade

Born in Germany, Nepo grew up in the US, later returning to Berlin via the UK. He works as a

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Nevena Yovcheva

Rural Renaissance – A Tool for Revitalising Villages

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Nina Martin

UrbanFutures – an anti-monumentalist exploration of collectivity, care and imagination

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Nyangala Zolho

How can policy support the inclusive growth of innovative sectors?

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Panagiotis Tzannetakis (Pan)

Pan collaborates with non profit organisations in designing projects and processes, and coordinating their implementation. In the past 8 years

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

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Rafael Dernbach

Festival Futures: prototyping peer-to-peer foresight mentoring for festival makers

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Research Lab
Berlin, Germany

u-institut

Transformative Governance – New Solutions for and with the cultural and creative economies

The research labs, located at five sites in Europe, explored specific issues linked to the creative economy. Negative consequences of Brexit for the industry were to be cushioned by securing know-how and expanding it on the basis of current problems.

Research Lab
London, UK

City, University of London

Creative Industries and Cultural Diversity: Crises, Diversities and London’s Cultural Ecosystem

The research labs, located at five sites in Europe, explored specific issues linked to the creative economy. Negative consequences of Brexit for the industry were to be cushioned by securing know-how and expanding it on the basis of current problems.

Research Lab
San Sebastián, Spain

Tabakalera – Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea

Curating collaborations: Arts centers as platforms to articulate creative impact

The research labs, located at five sites in Europe, explored specific issues linked to the creative economy. Negative consequences of Brexit for the industry were to be cushioned by securing know-how and expanding it on the basis of current problems.

Research Lab
Tallinn, Estonia

Garage48

Hackathons and their dynamic role in the creative and cultural industries

The research labs, located at five sites in Europe, explored specific issues linked to the creative economy. Negative consequences of Brexit for the industry were to be cushioned by securing know-how and expanding it on the basis of current problems.

Research Lab
Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich Centre for Creative Economies an der ZHdK, Zürich

Entrepreneurial Strategizing – towards a new Understanding of Strategies for the Cultural Sector

The research labs, located at five sites in Europe, explored specific issues linked to the creative economy. Negative consequences of Brexit for the industry were to be cushioned by securing know-how and expanding it on the basis of current problems.

Fellow

Sergej Bogatinoski

SkillGenius - AI job hunter

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Fellow

Taoyuan Luo

Doing feminism through creative cultural practices: zine-making, East and Southeast queer feminist communities, and anti-racial discrimination activisms in the UK

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Creative Impact Fund

Tend VR

A Radical Solution to the Global Problem of Depression and Anxiety: The cost-effective and population- scalable VR solution for delivering mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to treat depression

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Creative Impact Fund

The Black European Academic Network (BEAN)

Working to overcome the limited access to quality education available for Black Europeans

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Fellow

Tonderai Koschke

Anchor Places: A study of the spatial dimensions of minority community hubs in two European cities

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.

Creative Impact Fund

Vertical52

Enriching journalistic research by facilitating the use of satellite data

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Creative Impact Fund

Vollpension

More than a Generation Café: Tackling the challenge of demographic change through intergenerational dialogue and bringing senior citizens into the heart of society and business enterprises

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Creative Impact Fund

Z.O.P. – Institute for Spatial Design

Modular system for building with earth: Developing cost-effective, light and efficient formwork for building with rammed earth

The Creative Impact Fund offered practitioners in the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to realise their ideas or take their existing business to the next level of development. It aimed to support bold innovation projects, thereby harnessing the full potential of the cultural and creative industries to address current and future crises.

Fellow

Žan Girandon

Techre - A new material from used technical textiles: exploring potential use cases and developing prototypes

The Fellowship Programme 2023 brought together young academics and practitioners in the cultural and creative economies from across Europe, to foster exchange with young experts from the UK after Brexit and to test creative solutions to the challenges of our time.


The online map illustrates the participating countries of the 2023 CIRCE projects. Please click yourself through the map to find out who is part of the network, which topics were researched and which collaborations were established. Take a look at the projects subsites to dive into the insightful final reports.


Final publication 2023: Prototyping Collaboration

One year, 58 projects, countless ideas and innovations: The CIRCE community’s final publication “Prototyping Collaboration” provides an insight into the network’s research and creative projects. The detailed final reports can be found on the pages of the Research Labs, Creative Impact Funds and Fellows on our website. You can download the digital version of the publication here. A print version was published in December 2023.