Creativity Lab

15/07/2026

Remembering the ekip Academy in Tallinn in June 1-4. Wonderful group of people and days full of enriching ideas and conversations.

How can cities and regions build stronger innovation ecosystems by ...

11/07/2026

Cultural employment in Estonia is second highest in Europe, according to Eurostat 2025 data.

In 2025, the EU’s cultural sector employed 8.9 million people, or 4.3% of the total employment. 🩰✍️

Highest shares in:

🇳🇱Netherlands (5.7%)
🇪🇪Estonia (5.3%)
🇲🇹Malta (5.1%)

Lowest in:

🇷🇴Romania (1.8%)
🇸🇰Slovakia (3.3%)
🇮🇪Ireland (3.4%)

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/CV4Gjn

ℹ️ Employment in culture includes culture-related occupations in the culture sector, e.g., a ballet dancer employed by a ballet company or a journalist working for a daily newspaper, non-cultural occupations in the cultural sector, e.g., an accountant working in a publishing house, and culture-related jobs outside the culture sector, e.g., a designer who works in the motor vehicles industry.

ℹ️ Note that the map includes EU countries, EFTA and candidate countries with available data. The ranking in the caption is based on EU countries only.

08/07/2026

CLAB aitas Eesti Filmi Instituudil ette valmistada projekti Filmiekspordi kiirendi, mis sai Ettevõtluse ja Innovatsiooni Sihtasutustelt ligi 150 000 eurot toetust. Projekti raames viiakse 16 Eesti juhtivat filmiproduktsiooni ettevõtet erinevatele filmimessidele ja -turgudele üle maailma.

Ettevõtluse ja Innovatsiooni Sihtasutus (EIS) rahastab Euroopa Liidu kaasabil seitsme loomevaldkonna tugiteenuste projekti ligi miljoni euroga, et aidata

30/06/2026

Creativity Labi partner Jorma Sarv aitas koostada uue kunstivaldkonna arengukava aastateks 2026-2030. Arengukaval on viis strateegilist eesmärki:

1. Kunstnikud ja kunstitöötajad on ühiskonnas väärtustatud, sh sotsiaalsete garantiide toel.
2. Organisatsioonide koostöö tulemusena suureneb valdkonna rahastuse maht ja jätkusuutlikkus kasvab.
3. Rahvusvaheline koostöö on laiapõhjaline ja seda toetavad erinevad (esindus)sündmuste või tegevuste formaadid.
4. Kunstiväli on avatud ja ligipääsetav, seda toetab elukestev kunstiharidus ja valdkondade ülene koostöö.
5. Eesti ühiskond on kunstiteadlik.

21/05/2026

"Cross-sectoral innovation, in simple terms, means bringing creativity out of its own silo and putting it to work alongside other sectors, e.g., health, tourism, education, technology, and defence. It is not culture serving as decoration for someone else's project, nor other sectors funding culture out of goodwill. It is co-creation, where cultural practitioners and organisations sit at the table as equal partners, contributing their methods, their audiences, and their ways of seeing the world."

Cultural strategist Ragnar Siil argues that the arts are not a passive beneficiary of society but an active driver of innovation. He explores how embedding creativity into other sectors unlocks growth.

12/05/2026

Already next Tuesday, May 19th, we'll host an online policy lab on new funding models for creativity and innovation. The results will inform the European Commission on how to better support CCIs in the future. Join the conversation. Registration link below.

This ekip Policy Lab focuses on innovative financing and funding mechanisms (F&F) for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), addressing a long-standing mismatch between the sector’s value and its access to finance. Despite their contribution to innovation, economic growth, and social cohesion, C...

02/05/2026

📍ERÜ juhatus ja üksuste esindajad tegelevad 2027. a üle-eestilise raamatukogude mõju-uuringu ettevalmistustega. Eile toimus arutelupäev, kus vaatasime üle teiste riikide paremate praktikate analüüsi ja otsustasime, milliseid meetodeid hakkame sügisel piloteerima. Uuringu ettevalmistusi juhib Ragnar Siil Creativity Lab’ist.

23/04/2026

Eesti Filmi Instituut, Eesti Kinoliit ja Creativity Lab tutvustasid eile Kinomajas toimunud arutelul "Eesti film - kuhu liigud?" eelmise aasta lõpus valminud Eesti filmi teekaarti aastani 2035.

05/03/2026

Palju õnne Sulle sünnipäevaks, kallis Kristiina! Meil on sinuga väga vedanud.

02/02/2026

ekip next stop: the ekip academy.

From 1–4 June 2026, ekip will host its first Academy in Tallinn, a four-day, in-person programme for teams shaping innovation policy across cities and regions.

The Academy is designed for teams of three working on real policy challenges. Not to discuss innovation in theory, but to shape it in practice. Over four days, teams will work with:

– open innovation methods
– ecosystem-level policy tools
– cultural and creative industries as part of the system

Tallinn offers the right context: a city with deep experience in digital transformation, experimentation, and cross-sector collaboration.

Creatives are the missing piece.
In Tallinn, we work on what that means in practice.

Information on how to apply in our bio