How is Europe’s Creative Hub Ecosystem evolving? European Creative Hubs Network wants your feedback! The network has launched an extensive survey aimed at all creative hubs across Europe, with the goal of producing a benchmark annual report about the evolution of the creative spaces, communities and professionals across Europe.
Creative Hubs from across Europe are invited to take part and contribute their inputs, data and insights to what will be a benchmark annual report, to be presented in June this year. In the coming years, as an annual research project, it will enable all actors in the creative hubs ecosystem to follow the evolution of the European ecosystem, and advocate for balanced and tailored policy measures based on relevant data, at the same time enabling hubs to advocate for themselves on local and national levels.
The European Creative Hubs Network, one of the 39 networks operating under the Creative Europe networks program, announced the launch of the annual CREATIVE HUBS BAROMETER. It aims to offer a collective snapshot of Europe’s creative hubs, built from the input of creative hubs from across Europe. It strives to capture insights about the spaces, communities, programs, partnerships, financing of hubs and the outlook of the creative hubs ecosystem as a whole.
Contributions from hubs will help shape and transmit a clearer picture of the shared ecosystem. From another angle, self-assessment is also an important factor for creative hub managers to know more about the trends in the sector, to better advocate for it and better understand where their respective hub fits in the local and the European creative economy.
The resulting annual report, backed by data visualizations, findings and insights, will very clearly present the presence and impact of creative hubs across the European continent, in all of its diversity of contexts, sub sectors and local and wider impacts.
The results of the Creative Hubs Barometer will be fully publicly accessible, and circulated to all relevant national and European stakeholders, with the aim of leveraging the impact creative hubs have within the larger CCSI ecosystem, as well as on the economic and social levels.
All of the European hubs active within the CCSI ecosystem are invited to participate, and contribute their information for the year 2025. The survey takes up to 20 minutes to fill in, and
Take the CREATIVE HUBS BAROMETER survey here!
The deadline is April 30th 2026.
*In case you have any questions, reach out to ECHN via info@creativehubs.net
