Action Programme 3: Breakthrough Lab

The objective of this Call is to support innovations building on creative solutions to tackle the major challenges facing the CCSI as well as global challenges addressed by CCSI. We aim for projects that develop disruptive products and services that can be used in the CCSI and beyond targeting mainly five high impact markets Architecture, Audio-visual, Cultural Heritage, Design and Fashion and Textile.

The activities the organisation is looking to support
EIT Culture & Activity is looking for innovation activities in the following areas:

• Architecture: designs or products for new or renovated buildings and/or public spaces that will effectively contribute to climate-neutrality.
• Audio-visual: innovative products, processes, or services for audio visual industry applications that can demonstrate use of emerging technologies for environmental sustainability or new models in the Metaverse, of IP monetization or for fair remuneration of creatives as well as innovative distribution of contents.
• Cultural heritage: innovative products and business models that contribute to the preservation and dissemination of European cultural heritage, tangible or intangible, and provides revenue streams or new forms of value generation that ensure the financial sustainability of the heritage site or activity.
• Design: innovative products, processes, and services that significantly improve existing solutions by developing novel criteria and approaches, in terms of ecological aspects, eg. environmental protection but also providing future oriented proposals for social and economic sustainability and prosperity.
• Fashion and textile :use of digital technologies and/or new materials to create new no-waste or net-zero products, processes, services or business models.
• ‘Wild card’: ‘unexpected’ innovations that do not fit into any of the focus areas identified above.

The key dates for this Call are expected to be:

• 03 April 2023: Call Opening
• 25 April 2023 (10 – 1pm CET): EIT Culture & Creativity Infoday
• 31 May 2023 (4pm CET): Deadline for submitting a Full Proposal (FP)
• Mid-September: Communication of results to all applicants

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