European Creative Hubs Network

🕒 There’s still time to make your experience count! We’re extending the Creative Hubs Barometer deadline to ensure more creative hubs across Europe have the opportunity to contribute, helping us build a more representative picture of the ecosystem. If you haven’t yet taken part, we warmly invite you to do so, whether you are a member of ECHN or not. 📅 New deadline: May 22, 2026 Find the survey in the link in our bio or stories!

🎉 Meet Benchspace Cork, one of our ECHN members from Ireland! @benchspacecork is a shared creative workspace supporting makers, designers, and creative entrepreneurs through accessible tools, training, and collaborative opportunities. ⬅️ Swipe to learn more about how they connect traditional crafts, emerging technologies, and sustainable making practices within Cork’s creative community. We’re proud to have you as part of the European Creative Hubs Network 💛

We are aware that your hub is more than just a space. It’s community, experimentation, jobs, culture and opportunity for creatives. Help us map that reality across Europe. 🔗 Fill in the survey today! Link in bio! 📆 Deadline: May 22, 2026

Low-tech communication doesn’t mean outdated communication. It means choosing tools and approaches that are simple, direct and actually effective. We’re excited to share Low-tech Communication for Creative Spaces, a new publication by @sende & ECHN, developed through the ECHN Workshop 2025 in Sende's space in Galicia, Spain. 🔹Created for creative hubs, residencies, makerspaces, cultural centres and community spaces, this toolkit brings together 20 practical tips, strategies and reflections for communicating your work without becoming a full-time social media manager. 🔗 Explore the toolkit via the link in bio!

Meet BioLab Lisboa (@biolablisboa ), our member from Lisbon, Portugal! Located inside Mercado do Forno do Tijolo, a traditional public market and former slaughterhouse, the hub both contrasts with and complements everyday neighbourhood life. Since its founding, BioLab Lisboa has evolved from a citizen science biolab into an open innovation hub where biotechnology meets bioart, design, fashion, and civic participation. ⬅️ Swipe to learn more about their story. We are happy to have you as part of the ECHN community!

A throwback to our rainy but cozy days at @sende with a video that captures exactly what we learned there during this year's ECHN Workshop: social media and communication for creative hubs can be slow, intentional, and stress-free. And what better way to approach it than by simply documenting moments from the process? ➡️ If you’d like to explore the workshop outcomes, check out Sende’s toolkit featuring 20 practical tips, strategies, methods, and ideas for low-tech communication. 🔗 You can find it on our website or through the link in bio!

We’re happy to welcome Tania Almeida Santos and Miguel Ferreira to Split all the way from Porto, as part of the European Creative Hubs Network P2P Learning Program💥 Through their work with @cru_creativehub and @bombarda.pt – Quarteirão Criativo, they bring valuable experience in building and scaling creative communities - from shared spaces to wider urban ecosystems. Tomorrow, we open the conversation to all of you - join us to hear their insights, connect, and reflect together on how community-driven initiatives can shape more resilient and collaborative cultural environments. 📍 "From a Building to a District" Meet-up at Prostor, 6/5, 19h (Free, in English) A big thank you to the @creativehubsnet for making this possible and for continuously supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange across Europe’s creative hubs ❤️ #creativehubs #porto #split #exchange #event #meetup

Meet Treballu Rural Community Hub, one of our ECHN members from Sardinia, Italy! 🔸Treballu (@treballu_hub ) is a community-rooted hub working to reconnect rural territories with creativity, shared living, and new opportunities for local communities. ⬅️Swipe to learn more about how they transform abandoned spaces into places for collaboration, culture, and rural regeneration.

🚨Last chance to fill in the Creative Hubs Barometer and be part of our collective snapshot of Europe’s creative hubs! 🔗 Tell us about your hub here: /hubsbarometer or find the link in our bio! Your contribution will help us shape and transmit a clearer picture of our shared ecosystem. It will also very clearly, through data, present the presence and impact of creative hubs across the European continent.

Meet EuraCreative, our new ECHN member from Lille, France 🇫🇷! 🔸 EuraCreative (@euracreative_plaine_images ) was created to establish a dedicated hub for the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) in the Lille metropolitan area. 🔸 Its core mission is to bring together business support, innovation, talent, research and workspace solutions within a single ecosystem. We’re proud to have you as part of the European Creative Hubs Network 💛

This week at Lottozero we’re thrilled to welcome a very special guest: Silvia Brandi, co-founder of @farmlab.at . Joining us through the European Creative Hubs @creativehubsnet staff exchange programme, Silvia will be working closely with our Lab Manager, Federica Valli, sharing ideas, exchanging practices, and diving into the daily life of Lottozero. Based in the Styria region of Austria, FarmLab is a dynamic creative hub exploring the intersection of agriculture, design, and artistic research through innovative residencies and projects. Want to meet Silvia and learn more about her work? Join us this Thursday, April 23rd, at Lottozero for a free apero starting at 19:00. It’s the perfect chance to connect, ask questions, and spend an evening with our community. #creativehubs #lottozero #farmlab #exchange #learning

Pilots are a key way of engaging with CYANOTYPES in practice. Hear from Andrii Sichkovskyi @creativehubsnet as he shares insights from two pilots: Sustainability Management in Creative Hubs and Future Competences for the Fashion & Textile Cluster - and reflects on what the CYANOTYPES Framework brings to their work. “The [creative] sector itself is not like still water, and that means that creative professionals need to upskill, to reskill, sometimes to gain and develop new skills or improve... this is where CYANOTYPES contributes.” Through pilots like these, organisations, networks, and individuals explore how the Framework resonates in real contexts, and what it takes to translate it into practice. → Watch the pilots in action → Discover (ongoing) pilots across Europe → Express your interest in running your own and pass it on. 🔎 www.cyanotypes.website 📅 Join us: CYANOTYPES Sustainable Fashion Workshop Thu, 23 April | 12:00 CEST A collaborative space to turn ideas into value, shape sustainability narratives, and navigate real barriers in practice. Register through the link in the bio. . . #CYANOTYPES is co-funded by the europeancommission. #communityofchange