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Most of the activities of Creative Lenses are open to the public –such as the Forums, the International Conferences and the training workshops– and you are welcome to participate in them.

The research component of the project will produce several reports, methodologies, toolkits and online tools regarding the topic of business models in the cultural sector. We are sure that you will find them useful for your work.

If you would like to contribute to our investigation, you can provide us with data about your arts and cultural organisations through the Survey about business models that we are carrying out from May 2016.

If your organization is a member of Trans Europe Halles or IETM, you can also benefit from discounted fees for the public events of the project. Contact José Rodríguez for details.

Creative Lenses is committed to make European arts and cultural organisations more resilient and sustainable by improving their business models and developing their long-term strategic and innovation capacities. Being the ultimate goal to enable them to effectively respond to current challenges and future possibilities.

To achieve this, Creative Lenses will produce the following:

25 International Public Events: 8 Forums, 15 workshops and 2 Conferences

8 Business Models Innovation Cases (Catalysts)

10 Research Reports about Business Model Innovation

1 Toolkit for arts and cultural organisations

1 Knowledge Base

1 Benchmarking Tool

1 Book

The legacy of the project will be the know-how, tools and support mechanisms required for the European cultural sector to achieve long-term sustainability.

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The Creative Lenses Benchmarking Tool is an online system allowing arts and cultural organisations to self-asses their performance and compare them to other organisations operating in the sector both locally and internationally. It will also provide data and analysis about the sector and guidelines for audience development.

The Benchmarking Tool will be developed in 2018 based on the results of the Research and Catalyst phases of the project.

Yes. We are happy to contribute to your event by presenting the most updated results of our reasearch, lead a workshop about business model innovation, curating the programme of your event, etc. Just contact us and let us know what you need.

Yes. We are carrying out a thorough desktop and practice-based investigation that is allowing us to develop a specific methodology to address business model innovation for arts and cultural organizations. Contact us to learn more about it.