EIT CCSI SUGA

This Start-up plan is about creating the EIT Culture & Creativity. Starting by building its legal and operational readiness, and leading on to the design of long-term strategies for partnership growth and ecosystem engagement. All activities carried out during the start-up phase are aimed at enabling this EIT Innovation Community to unlock the latent value of its stakeholders. The focus will be on: Creating the new legal entities, good governance structures, and internal initiatives that foster long-term financial sustainability plans while maintaining the public service mission. Endowing the KIC with appropriate management and operational teams, with attributes and roles that can grow with the KIC; and ensuring the best candidates are recruited to the roles to assume all necessary functions, including supervisory ones. Developing the KIC’s programmatic structures based upon knowledge generated and contributed by the partners, and in alignment with the Strategic Agenda 23-27, and launch the first Call for Proposals for BP 24-25. To raise awareness of the EIT Culture & Creativity, and to develop specific measures to engage and nurture a vibrant community of innovators, from all corners of Europe, and especially from RIS countries. The SUGA is built on 30 partners, and one affiliated entity. The rest of the founding organisations will contribute pro-bono to many of the activities by volunteering staff to the participatory work groups. All these contributions are fundamental to achieving legal and operational readiness, and to building a shared vision for EIT Culture & Creativity.