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we:transform creative workshop for you and your ideas
Apply by 31.01.2026 – it pays to be quick! we:transform is a nine-month co-creation program and your business boost.
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Creative Industries Meeting 2026
27.01.2026 | 9:00-17:00 | WKÖ Vienna we:transform barcamp for the triple transition for alumni of C hoch 3 and we:transform.
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Oliver Irschitz – Thinking bigger to realize sustainable utopias
Designing intuitive interfaces – this is how designer Oliver Irschitz describes the common denominator of his projects. Formerly interactive furniture, today sustainable packaging and an airplane with a future.
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CIMIx 2026 – The Transformation Edition
27.1. & 28.1.2026 | This is where international decision-makers from business and the creative industries meet and KAT is right in the middle of it…
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Creative Transformation – Apply now as a creative expert
Application deadline 13.02.26 | With your expertise, you can help pioneers in care, inclusion, life sciences and much more to gain more visibility as a…
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we:transform creative workshop for you and your ideas
Apply by 31.01.2026 – it pays to be quick! we:transform is a nine-month co-creation program and your business boost.
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wewant2know – Who is turning the wheel of change?
23.4.26 | 8:30-12:00 | online | Discover how social transformation opens up new opportunities for the creative industries! Join our interactive online impulse on social…
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wewant2know – Is AI killing your creativity?
9.4.26 | 8:30-12:00 | online | Discover how artificial intelligence opens up new opportunities for the creative industries! Join our interactive online impulse on digital…
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wewant2know – Do you have the future vision tick?
24.9.26 | 8:30-12:00 | online | Discover how new technologies are changing the creative industries! Be part of our interactive online impulse on digital transformation!
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wewant2know – And where does the coal come from?
22.10.26 | 8:30-12:00 | online | Discover how to turn ideas into viable business models! Join our interactive online impulse on business model innovation!
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wewant2know – Running in circles is your new business?
7.5.26 | 8:30-12:00 | online | Discover how circular economy, next materials and ecological transformation open up new opportunities for the creative industries! Join our…
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News
Collabor_AI_tion – The Future of Human Creativity & the Creative Industries in the era of AI
Do you know of an outstanding AI project that should be given a stage? Get in touch!
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News
CampusVäre: The future is being created here
A creative center is being built in Dornbirn that brings together innovation, art and business and shows how sustainable urban development works.
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Support
Starting scholarships 2026: Submit now!
The Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport is awarding the start-up grants for 2026 – important funding for young artists in Austria.
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aws Infohour: New funding programs for innovative start-ups
13.1. & 11.2.2026 | Do you have an idea that will make the world a better place? The aws supports you!
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Creatives
Oliver Irschitz – Thinking bigger to realize sustainable utopias
Designing intuitive interfaces – this is how designer Oliver Irschitz describes the common denominator of his projects. Formerly interactive furniture, today sustainable packaging and an…
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Sneak Preview – we:transform 2026
11.12.2025 | 9:00-10:30 | Online via Zoom In just 1.5 hours you will get a compact insight into your transformation journey with we:transform and can…
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Stories
And suddenly it went woom
With woom, Christian Bezdeka and Marcus Ihlenfeld developed children’s bikes that take into account the needs of people aged 1.5 to 14.
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Creative Industries Meeting 2026
27.01.2026 | 9:00-17:00 | WKÖ Vienna we:transform barcamp for the triple transition for alumni of C hoch 3 and we:transform.
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Support
CultureEU
The Commission is supporting the cultural sector with an online guide to EU funding.
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Media library
Creative Transformation Summit 2025: Creative + Economy = Effect
On 16 October 2025, the Creative Transformation Summit offered a comprehensive programme that provided entrepreneurs and creative professionals with valuable insights into key topics relating…
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Creatives
Clarissa Steurer – With hand, heart and cork
Innovative design, sustainable materials and entrepreneurial courage. At CLARISSAKORK, creative visions merge with economic foresight. Clarissa Steurer shows how a company can be created that…
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Free workshops on start-up topics
Basic knowledge on founding, finance, law, marketing and impact
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aws Seedfinancing – Innovative solutions also for and with creative businesses
Do you come from the creative industries and want to launch an innovation on the market? Then submit your application to aws Seedfinancing.
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aws Preseed – Innovative solutions also for and with creative businesses
Do you come from the creative industries and are working on the “proof of concept” for your innovation project? Then submit to aws Preseed -…
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News
we:transform 2025
we:transform is on the home stretch. You can find an overview of all previous and upcoming events here.
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The next formats of AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA
Außenwirtschaft Austria offers many international formats that are particularly exciting for creative minds. You can find the current program here!
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Stories
Top-class new production
Jeweler Schullin has developed the online store My Diamond Ring together with the creative agency wild. A top-class collaboration with added value.
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Stories
Martin Auer & moodley brand identity
What does bread taste like when you breathe a soul into it? The Graz-based entrepreneur Martin Auer set out in search of the real taste…
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Stories
Joinery and brand agency
The creative power of master carpenter Christian Leidinger and communications expert Nicole Herb came together in a C hoch 3 workshop. The two quickly got…
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Support
CCS Guarantee Facility
The counter-guarantees provided by the EIF enable the aws to offer guarantees to companies in the creative industries on particularly favorable terms.
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Creatives
Christian Kroepfl – The future is round
Circular design as a pioneer for sustainable innovations and a better future.
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Creatives
Zimmer frei: Kathrin Fuchs listens behind the curtain
With her podcast “GOLD _ your podcast with _ VALUE”, our Creative of the Month, Kathrin Fuchs, opens the doors to a world in which…
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Support
Digital guide to facilitate access to EU funding for creatives
EU funding opportunities across all EU funding programs are summarized and made available in an interactive mapping tool.
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Stories
Tastefully told: How Brini Fetz turns the plate into a canvas in her hej studio
A pinch of inspiration Her path to creative self-employment began in 2013 during her Master’s degree in Denmark, when she organized food events, pop-up cafés…
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Creatives
Philip Reitsperger wins the Red Dot Design Award with his Identitylab
The Identitylab: A creative journey to exciting stories The Identitylab is the impressive result of an extraordinary interplay between two of Philip Reitsperger’s educational paths:…
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Creative solutions to the energy crisis
Discover how creativity can overcome the energy crisis.
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