Please note that the current Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE) project concluded its work on 31.12.2024.
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 was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Fellowship Programme 2024 “CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice” supported ten pilot projects from the European cultural and creative economies that transfer research and knowledge into creative practice. 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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 Fellowship Programme 2024 “CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice” supported ten pilot projects from the European cultural and creative economies that transfer research and knowledge into creative practice. 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. The Fellowship Programme 2024 “CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice” supported ten pilot projects from the European cultural and creative economies that transfer research and knowledge into creative practice. 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 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 Fellowship Programme 2024 “CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice” supported ten pilot projects from the European cultural and creative economies that transfer research and knowledge into creative practice. 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. 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 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 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 Fellowship Programme 2024 “CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice” supported ten pilot projects from the European cultural and creative economies that transfer research and knowledge into creative practice. 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 Fellowship Programme 2024 “CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice” supported ten pilot projects from the European cultural and creative economies that transfer research and knowledge into creative practice. 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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 Fellowship Programme 2024 “CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice” supported ten pilot projects from the European cultural and creative economies that transfer research and knowledge into creative practice. 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 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. 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. 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 Fellowship Programme 2024 “CIRCE Fellowships – Creative Impact in Practice” supported ten pilot projects from the European cultural and creative economies that transfer research and knowledge into creative practice. 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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.Search for CIRCE projects
Aiwen Yin
2023: Can web3 technology help socially engaged art become organizationally sustainable, or what the heck is a community?
2024: Survival Kits for Intentional CommunitiesWhat´s a Fellow?
Aiwen Yin
Aiwen Yin is a designer, theorist, strategist and project developer, who uses writing, system design, time-based art, institutional practice andWhat´s a ?
Alexandra Tzanidou
The Inclusion mille-feuille: Investigating Presence and Representation in immersive art through inclusive immersive theatreWhat´s a Fellow?
Alice Zhuravel
Alice Zhuravel is a social entrepreneur hailing from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She has a passion for learning and exploring different fields,What´s a Fellow?
Amelie Graf
Mattering - paste & pour: Using residual materials from agriculture and food production in product design and architectureWhat´s a Fellow?
Anastasia Platonava
The Synergy of Blockchain and AI and its Potential to Reduce the Skills Gap in EuropeWhat´s a Fellow?
Anna De Mezzo
Where can you live? A board game exploring privileges in the city of Zurich, SwitzerlandWhat´s a Fellow?
Anna Kint
Coconuts Space: Recovery in mental health care from within the creative industryWhat´s a Fellow?
Antonia Rohwetter
Antonia Rohwetter works as a dramaturg, researcher, writer and curator in contemporary performing arts and dance. Rather than focusing onWhat´s a Fellow?
arjunraj
2023: The Future of Storytelling: Decolonial Filmmaking Methodology developed while making Liminality, a feature film using Collaborative Storytelling Practices
2024: Körperkino: Embodied Cinema as the future of StorytellingWhat´s a Fellow?
arjunraj
arjunraj is a filmmaker, multimodal researcher and artist. Drawing from a decade of experience in telling stories rooted in embodiedWhat´s a ?
Barbora Andor Tóthová
Caring policies for sustainable cultural ecosystemsWhat´s a Fellow?
Charlie Squire
Slouching: A Field Guide to Art and (un-)Belonging in EuropeWhat´s a 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 workforceWhat´s a Fellow?
Christine Essling
Potential for innovation? Towards hybrid events – a curator’s approachWhat´s a Fellow?
Civic
The Possible: A Community Action Lab for Recovery & Renewal in UkraineWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Club Co-op
Exploring alternative approaches to the dominant models and assumptions surrounding nightlife cultural venues and their status in societyWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Danica Sretenović
An Exercise in Feral CartographiesWhat´s a Fellow?
Dany Garcia-Solano
Design Picnic - A participatory design research method fostering reimaginationWhat´s a Fellow?
Diana Raiselis
Queer Space ProjectWhat´s a Fellow?
embrace3
Developing a needs-based design framework for breast support clothingWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Empowering Democracy
Corporate Strategies for Enabling Participative Social Media Campaigns Inspired by the Cultural and Creative EconomyWhat´s a Fellow?
Esther Bokuma
Embodying Liberation: Exploring holistic wellness and emergent artist-led models of community care for Black Musicians and Professionals in BritainWhat´s a Fellow?
Fabian Frey
Sandwiches – Community Building through Shared FoodWhat´s a Fellow?
Flore Beaumond
A New Financial Model for Supporting and Distributing New Environmental StoriesWhat´s a Fellow?
Founderland
PAM, Pitch AI Mentor: Helping women of colour and other marginalised entrepreneurs overcome systemic barriers through practicing and enhancing their pitch skillsWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Gemma Milne
A Confident Friend: Realising the Potential of CCE in Enhancing (Political) Imagination in the New Space SectorWhat´s a Fellow?
Hoyee Tse
Diversification vs. Racialisation: the Employment of Asian Museum and Curatorial Professionals in the UKWhat´s a Fellow?
Ieva Miltina
Food as a Catalyst in Research Design for the Cultural and Creative SectorWhat´s a Fellow?
Isabel Henschen
Lou&You: Designing EnablementWhat´s a Fellow?
Jessica Guy
Design Education for the Pluriverse:
A Study of Contemporary Pedagogy,
Curricula, and 21st-century Skills and CompetenciesWhat´s a Fellow?
Jorinde Schulz
A toolbox of creative strategies for participation in urban development processesWhat´s a Fellow?
Judith Faßbender
Looking at Menstruation Tracking Apps with a Focus on User Positions Regarding Privacy and Data Collection for Health Research PurposesWhat´s a Fellow?
Katja Blazheichuk
Katja is a cultural manager and activist involved in projects in Kyiv and Berlin. Her work centres on cultural diplomacy,What´s a Fellow?
Kristina Gavran
The Birth Stories ProjectWhat´s a Fellow?
Kübra Karataş
Transforming Cultural Funding – In the search for alternative funding instruments for a financially sustainable Cultural and Creative SectorWhat´s a Fellow?
Kuulu
The problem-solving digital solution that empowers organisations to create tailored DEI plans for overcoming identity-related injusticeWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Lezo
The AI-powered career platform that helps employers find specialists in the creative and tech fieldsWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Lorena Junghans
The Artistic Revolution, Ecosystems of Care: Exploring the influence of traditional and queer social structures on cross-border cultural productionWhat´s a Fellow?
Luiza Moroz
Navigating Global Competition: Alternative Policy Approaches for the EU´s Creative IndustriesWhat´s a Fellow?
Madeleine Arber
Gaming For Climate Change: The
Impact of Minecraft Education: Frozen Planet II worlds on inspiring climate positive behaviours in childrenWhat´s a Fellow?
Maeve Gerding
Doing Solidarity: But How?What´s a Fellow?
Manik Chander
How to serve our communities by identifying their needsWhat´s a Fellow?
Maureen Selina Laverty
Trousers to Climb TreesWhat´s a Fellow?
Merje Laiapea
In the Image of All of Us: Exploring new approaches to building and sustaining cultural infrastructureWhat´s a Fellow?
Museum of Homelessness
Making a Museum of Homelessness in a Global Crisis: Reimagining the role of and possibilities for museums in a global polycrisisWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Myceen
Mycelium Materials: Exploring the potential of mycelium to replace problematic materials in the construction and furniture sectorsWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Naja Kikelj
UX research service for architecture and urban designWhat´s a Fellow?
Nepo Schrade
GREENING ON THE VERGE: A starter kit for community-led public realm interventionsWhat´s a Fellow?
Nevena Yovcheva
Rural Renaissance – A Tool for Revitalising VillagesWhat´s a Fellow?
Nina Martin
UrbanFutures – an anti-monumentalist exploration of collectivity, care and imaginationWhat´s a Fellow?
Nyangala Zolho
How can policy support the inclusive growth of innovative sectors?What´s a Fellow?
Panagiotis Tzannetakis (Pan)
Pan collaborates with non profit organisations in designing projects and processes, and coordinating their implementation. In the past 8 yearsWhat´s a Fellow?
Rafael Dernbach
Festival Futures: prototyping peer-to-peer foresight mentoring for festival makersWhat´s a Fellow?
Berlin, Germanyu-institut
Transformative Governance – New Solutions for and with the cultural and creative economiesWhat´s a Research Lab?
London, UKCity, University of London
Creative Industries and Cultural Diversity: Crises, Diversities and London’s Cultural EcosystemWhat´s a Research Lab?
San Sebastián, SpainTabakalera – Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea
Curating collaborations: Arts centers as platforms to articulate creative impactWhat´s a Research Lab?
Tallinn, EstoniaGarage48
Hackathons and their dynamic role in the creative and cultural industriesWhat´s a Research Lab?
Zurich, SwitzerlandZurich Centre for Creative Economies an der ZHdK, Zürich
Entrepreneurial Strategizing – towards a new Understanding of Strategies for the Cultural SectorWhat´s a Research Lab?
Sergej Bogatinoski
SkillGenius - AI job hunterWhat´s a Fellow?
Taoyuan Luo
Doing feminism through creative cultural practices: zine-making, East and Southeast queer feminist communities, and anti-racial discrimination activisms in the UKWhat´s a Fellow?
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 depressionWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
The Black European Academic Network (BEAN)
Working to overcome the limited access to quality education available for Black EuropeansWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Tonderai Koschke
Anchor Places: A study of the spatial dimensions of minority community hubs in two European citiesWhat´s a Fellow?
Vertical52
Enriching journalistic research by facilitating the use of satellite dataWhat´s a 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 enterprisesWhat´s a 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 earthWhat´s a Creative Impact Fund?
Žan Girandon
Techre - A new material from used technical textiles: exploring potential use cases and developing prototypesWhat´s a Fellow?
The online map illustrates the participating countries of the 2023-2024 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 2024: Creative Impact in Practice
The CIRCE community continues to grow, along with new ideas for social change: The final publication Creative Impact in Practice offers a first insight into the Fellows‘ pilot projects and presents a selection of research contributions from the network on the cultural and creative economies. The detailed final reports are available on the Fellows’ profile pages. You can download a digital version of the publication here.
