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Resilient Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy (RECE)

A practice-oriented programme for founders, makers, and changemakers in Europe’s
cultural and creative sectors.

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Why RECE? Why Now?

In a time of rapid transformation—algorithmic shifts, funding uncertainties, cultural tensions—the challenge for creative professionals, passionistas, and cultural changemakers isn’t just to launch projects. It’s to build ventures that can adapt, endure, and matter.
 

Resilient Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy (RECE) is a new, expertly designed online programme that supports creators and practitioners in the cultural and creative sector (CCSI) with the tools to do just that. You’ll learn to move from idea to impact without compromising your values, artistic vision, or social mission.
 

This isn’t a standard entrepreneurship course. RECE is tailored to the logic, language, and lived realities of the creative fields—whether you’re a designer, musician, filmmaker, cultural producer, game developer, writer, or digital artist.

RECE is implemented on behalf of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Culture & Creativity, a new EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community supporting resilience, transformation, and growth across the cultural and creative sectors in Europe.

Delivered by Leaders
in Cultural Innovation

This programme is developed and delivered by a unique partnership of trusted European actors in the cultural and innovation space:
 

  • Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) – the leading business school in the Nordic–Baltic region, known for combining academic rigour with entrepreneurial relevance
     

  • Space Time Works – a Malmö-based lab and consultancy rethinking innovation for inclusive, place-based creative economies
     

  • Bloom Creative Technologies – a media company building tools and ecosystems for the future of culture and learning

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Programme Highlights

  • Six immersive modules combining expert content, real-world cases, and hands-on creative tools
     

  • Asynchronous and flexible, designed to fit the lives of working professionals, creatives, and freelancers
     

  • Virtual field trips to creative initiatives across Europe—from co-creation studios in Sweden to sustainable startups in the Baltics
     

  • Guest speakers and panel discussions with creative entrepreneurs, cultural leaders, and industry experts who share hard-earned lessons, sector-specific insights, and honest reflections
     

  • Practical outputs you can use immediately: a business model, validation plan, pitch video, and ethical positioning statement
     

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What You’ll Learn

RECE helps you build a venture that is not only viable, but also valuable to your audiences and communities. You’ll learn to:
 

  • Identify overlooked opportunities in your creative ecosystem
     

  • Translate ideas into testable, audience-aware value propositions
     

  • Design business models that align with your creative and ethical goals
     

  • Validate your concept using culturally appropriate research methods
     

  • Communicate your venture through a high-quality pitch and clear storytelling
     

  • Navigate the social, ethical, and systemic dimensions of entrepreneurship in CCSI
     

  • Each module is grounded in cases, challenges, and dynamics drawn directly from Europe’s creative economy today.
     

Who Should Join?

RECE is designed for early-stage founders and active professionals in the cultural and creative sectors who want to:

  • Develop or refine a business idea grounded in their practice
     

  • Learn entrepreneurial tools without losing artistic or cultural integrity
     

  • Gain strategic clarity and confidence in an uncertain environment
     

  • Align commercial and social impact in their work
     

  • Expand their professional toolbox through rigorous, creative learning
     

Whether you're launching something new or recalibrating something existing, RECE helps you move forward—strategically and sustainably.

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Become Part of a New Creative Economy
 

RECE equips a new generation of cultural entrepreneurs to think systemically, act ethically, and build ventures that last. With Europe’s CCSI facing both unprecedented opportunity and profound disruption, this programme provides the mindset and methods to lead through change.
 

If you’re ready to build a venture that’s resilient, relevant, and rooted in cultural value—RECE is for you.

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