Cultural Innovators Network Information

About The Cultural Innovators Network is a transnational Euro-Mediterranean network initiated by the Goethe institute in 2012. It aims to promote cultural experimentation and innovation across borders, and sees creativity as a fundamental component of change. Description From Cairo to Madrid – Seizing this momentum The network is unique in bringing together cultural innovators from overlapping domains and sectors – including media, performing arts, visual arts, literature, design, social enterprise, active citizenship and peace work – and facilitating their creative collaboration and mutual learning. Each coming from the cutting-edge of their fields and highly engaged their respective geographical contexts, the members of the network are cross-pollinators and hybridizers, interested in both invention and intervention. This unique personality of the network has developed through a first selection of participants in 2012. At the core of this project is a group of twenty young, socially involved people. During three “Learning Journeys” to Egypt, Italy and Germany in June and July 2012, they will strengthen their network of motivated individuals and visit a variety of successful citizen-led initiatives. Their impressions and experiences are the basis for the Cultural Innovators Forum taking place in Istanbul in December 2012. In May 2013, the Network has elected its first steering committee and is developing into a structured, democratic, independent and sustainable transnational organization. This first forum led to over 20 pilot projects realized across the Euro-Mediterranean region, a second forum in Hammamet Tunisia in 2013, a third one in Thessaloniki Greece. With the 3rd Forum, CIN opened up membership of the Network for the first time since its creation. Cultural Innovators Network is a project of the Goethe-Institut as part of the German-Egyptian and German-Tunisian Transformation Partnership and is financed by the German Federal Foreign Office.