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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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The creative industries report 2026
Creative industries remain a driver of innovation despite economic headwinds.
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Patrick Beranek – With perseverance and the right network to the project of your heart
Three perfectionists worked on their dream for five years to create the finished children’s book. Here you can find out how the project was realized and what role the C to the power of 3 network played.
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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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Open Call: Arts for Health Austria
Application deadline: February 15 | New call for creative projects that combine art and mental health. Submit now and become part of the CultureAndHealth initiative.
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Renovation solutions for climate-friendly buildings wanted!
Deadline: 16.3.26 | Submit your concept to make public buildings climate-ready.
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Network meeting 2026 follow-up report
The network meeting brought together 90 we:transform participants and the C to the power of 3 community full of exchange, inspiration and new connections.
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CIMIx 2026
International creative industries conference CIMIx 2026 inspires with strong impetus, new collaborations and international networking
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Connecting the Dots 2026
Connecting the Dots 2026 at the BMWET impressively demonstrated how much energy is generated when creative minds from a wide range of fields come together…
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The creative industries report 2026
Creative industries remain a driver of innovation despite economic headwinds.
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Creative Mornings
monthly | Vienna | Once a month, always on the last Friday morning, the community meets at different, exciting locations such as museums, cafés, studios…
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Event calendar of the creative industries
Be inspired, network and be surprised. Here are the highlights for 2026 that you should mark in bold in your calendar now.
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Vienna Design Week 2026
25.9.-4.10.2026 | Vienna | Ten days full of design, ideas and inspiration: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is Austria’s largest curated design festival.
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Creative Transformation Health & Social Business
Creative Transformation Health & Social Business An open innovation program for women who rethink health and social issues – with know-how from the creative industries…
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Climate Biennale Vienna
9.4.-10.5.26 | Vienna | The Vienna Climate Biennale returns with its second edition as an interdisciplinary festival at the interface of art and climate.
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Creative Days Vienna
20 & 21.5.26 | Vienna | As part of the startup festival ViennaUP, Creative Days Vienna brings together international creative professionals for talks, workshops, tours…
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SXSW London 2026
31.5. – 4.6.26 | London | AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA is organizing a business mission to SXSW London 2026 for Austrian companies, creative professionals, start-ups, educational institutions…
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The most beautiful books from seven nations
Until 21.2.26 | Vienna | The typographic society austria (tga), in cooperation with the main library, presents the results of the competition ‘The most beautiful…
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Patrick Beranek – With perseverance and the right network to the project of your heart
Three perfectionists worked on their dream for five years to create the finished children’s book. Here you can find out how the project was realized…
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Content Vienna 2026
Every year, creative digital projects that show how technology, design and social relevance can work together are honored here.
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Ars Electronica
9-13.9.26 | Linz | The Ars Electronica Festival is one of the world’s most important platforms for media art, technology and society.
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KMU.DIGITAL promotion
Find out more about funding for digital measures from consulting to implementation.
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Austrian Media Days
23. & 24.9.26 | Vienna | The HORIZONT Media Days are the most important congress for the media and communications industry in Austria.
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Forward Festival Vienna
1.-2.10.26 | Vienna | Over 1,500 creative people come together here to network, exchange ideas and spark new ideas together.
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The BOLD Community
The BOLD Community provides the space in which innovative ideas are developed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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