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We love Prague in Spring.
But Prague has its charms in Autumn too.
As being part of Creative Skills Week where you meet fellow creatives from all around Europe to create, transform and regenerate.
/rehub was present in Creative Skills Week in three capacities:
/rehub is one of the pilot-runners of Cyanotypes Creative Agency Competence Framework. Cyanotypes pilot-runners gathered in Prague for a 1,5 day training before going live with their pilots.
/rehub is a member of #CreativePactForSkills Working Group on Entrepreneurial Skills. The Working Group joined forces with Creative Skills Week as a contributor of the hashtag#CSW2025 programme and organised the session on Transformational Entrepreneurial Skills.
/rehub also pitched a project in the online Marketplace showcasing featured project presentations offering a vivid snapshot of emerging practices and bold visions across the cultural and creative industries hashtag#CCIs.
What is Cyanotypes?
CYANOTYPES is a European initiative that helps people working in the cultural and creative industries understand and build the skills needed for the future. It centres on the idea of creative agency — the ability to act with purpose, imagination, and responsibility within fast-changing social, digital, and environmental contexts. Instead of focusing only on technical skills, CYANOTYPES maps 25 competences that connect creativity with collaboration, sustainability, digital fluency, and ethical practice. For creatives, it offers a shared language and framework to describe what they already do intuitively — imagining, experimenting, storytelling, connecting — and to recognise how these capacities can grow into leadership, innovation, and transformation. In simple terms, CYANOTYPES is about future-proofing creative work by helping individuals, organisations, and sectors learn how to adapt and shape change, not just respond to it.
The CYANOTYPES piloting process is a real-world testing ground for the Creative Agency Competence Framework — a way to experiment with how future-oriented skills can actually be learned, shared, and applied across the cultural and creative sectors. Rather than a single workshop, each pilot is a multi-phase learning journey where educators, artists, and professionals explore, adapt, and co-create around the 25 CYANOTYPES competences. For creatives in the field, piloting means stepping into a collective learning ecosystem: a space to reflect on one’s own practice, uncover gaps in digital, sustainable, and collaborative capacities, and translate abstract “future skills” into concrete methods, projects, and partnerships. It’s about turning creative intuition into structured agency — building the confidence, foresight, and adaptability needed to shape the next generation of cultural work.
Unlearning was as important as learning. Much like the “unlearning” paradigm described in the reports, many participants recognised how old mental models about education, innovation, or hierarchy must shift toward openness, co-agency, and iteration.
Language matters. Words such as agency, values, and regeneration gained tangible meaning — not buzzwords, but practical levers for creative practice.
Confidence through frameworks. Rather than constrain creativity, the structured framework provided a shared vocabulary for articulating competence and growth.
From pilot to practice. Many left with ideas for embedding CYANOTYPES in curricula, community programs, or organisational strategies — evidence of the framework’s adaptability across contexts.
The Prague pilot training was more a laboratory for cultural learning. It demonstrated how the CYANOTYPES Framework can operate as a living system — connecting personal transformation with systemic change in the creative industries. Participants left with a clearer sense of their own creative agency and a network of peers ready to extend the experiment.
Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) represents a powerful convergence point for everyone shaping the future of the cultural and creative industries. It’s not just a conference — it’s an ecosystem in action, where learning, collaboration, and experimentation unfold across disciplines. Through its three theme tracks — Create, Transform, Regenerate — the event invites participants to test ideas, debate policies, and explore new models for working and learning together. For artists, educators, and sector leaders alike, CSW2025 is a space to connect with others facing the same transitions — digital, ecological, and societal — and to imagine practical ways to respond with creativity, care, and foresight. It’s about turning uncertainty into opportunity, and creativity into collective capacity for transformation.
Twelve proposals were pitched in fast-paced PechaKucha rounds, each offering a vivid snapshot of emerging practices and bold visions across the cultural and creative sectors. :
Adaptive Fashion Design + Digital Technology, Shannon North & Andie Day, Belmont University
· A horizontal learning platform in support of the local cultural and creative ecosystem, Delphine Jenart, IHECS (Brussels)
· Design Activism Meets Theatre: Social Transformation inspired by Liv Strömquist, Natalie Weinmann, Coburg University of applied sciences and arts
· FashionTEX – setting ambitious and significant goals to revolutionize fashion education, Audronė Drungilaitė, Vilnius Academy of Arts
· Film Sight, Pavel Ruzyak, Osvěta z.s.
· KOBI: Enhancing Creative Skills through AI, Veronica Di Geronimo & Andrea Guidi, The Fine Arts Academy of Rome
· Lusófona X NO23 Special Edition: What if a skateboard could tell its own story?, Monica Mara Lopes, Danilo Cares and João Barata, Universidade Lusófona
· Parenting in the Arts- Online residency for artists-mother with mentoring, Jessica Capra, The Artist and the Others
· Play Green! Recommendations for higher education institutions, Ashkhen Fixova, AEC – Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen
· The Art of Circularity – Multidisciplinary Idea Incubator for Boosting Circular Lifestyle, Emil Kusnetsoff, Humak University of Applied Sciences
· The Florence Program, Michal Eitan, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
· UAx Platform, Uliana Furiv, ELIA
· Who Decides Who/What is Creative?, Nurten Mericer, /rehub
Who Decides What/Who is Creative?
Creativity is a critical asset across industries, especially in today's knowledge-driven and innovation-centered economies. Yet, accurately assessing creativity and predicting creative potential remains a persistent challenge, particularly in high-stakes decision-making environments such as funding, recruitment, R&D, and cultural production. /rehub's research project aims to address this gap by exploring whether a Creativity Assessment Center can be designed and a cross-domain “creativity judge” can be identified—someone capable of consistently recognizing and predicting creativity regardless of field—and to define the traits and competencies that make such judgment possible.
Creative Pact For Skills Working Group
This Working Group aims to raise-awareness, decode & embrace entrepreneurship while developing a storytelling around cultural entrepreneurship. It also aims at demonstrating how to concretely match CCIs & businesses. Themes for 2025 are gendered perspectives to life-work balance; CCIs & proximity economy & role of intermediaries. The Working Group also focuses on developing a branded training integrating horizontal knowledge for all sectors and providing more in-depth training on competences in project management, financial resources, and HR management.
As the Working Group, we took this opportunity for needs analysis, validation and feedback for the branded training program focusing on different target groups and stakeholders such as youth entrepreneurship, special entrepreneurial programmes: NEET; women; vulnerable groups, Higher Education and Vocational education and training (VET) in entrepreneurship
Non-formal and informal lifelong learning entrepreneurial training.
As a participant, Creative Skills Week 2025 felt like stepping into a living laboratory of creativity, collaboration, and renewal. The atmosphere in Prague — and online — was charged with openness and urgency: creatives, educators, and policymakers all searching for new ways to make our sector more resilient and future-ready. The biggest takeaway was that skills are no longer static — they evolve through relationships, reflection, and shared experimentation. The CYANOTYPES Framework offered a practical lens for understanding how we can co-create competence, not just teach it. I left inspired by how the three themes — Create, Transform, Regenerate — came to life: hands-on workshops sparked imagination, transformation labs pushed critical debate, and regenerative sessions encouraged us to rethink sustainability as a creative act. The week reinforced one key idea — that the future of the cultural and creative industries depends on our ability to learn together, unlearn assumptions, and imagine new systems that value creativity as both an economic and human force.
