CCI4Change: Introducing a new toolkit for creative climate actions

The CCI4Change project has launched a new Collaboration Toolkit to help local governments and creative professionals work together on climate action. It’s a practical guide that shows how artists, designers, and other creatives can join forces with municipalities to inspire people to use energy more wisely and live more sustainably.

Why should you care?

The CCI4Change Toolkit takes climate action out of meeting rooms and puts it into the heart of daily life. Instead of relying on dry statistics or policy jargon, it uses music, theatre, design, and storytelling to make sustainability something people can feel and connect with. The ideas in it have already been tested across Latvia, Finland, and Sweden – transforming an old ceramics factory into a green cultural hub, turning raw energy data into immersive sound art, and reimagining public spaces to foster more sustainable and human-centered experiences.

🔸 For creatives, it provides opportunities to work on projects with tangible impact while fostering meaningful connections with communities.

🔸 For municipalities, it offers a ready-made process to engage citizens in climate action – complete with open tools, templates, and examples that can be adapted to spark change in your city today.

What’s inside the Toolkit

The CCI4Change Toolkit is like a guide for cities and creatives working together on climate goals. At its core is a four-step model: identify a local challenge, create a shared plan, take action through creative interventions, and reflect on the results to inspire future projects.

Tools that work for both worlds

The magic of this Toolkit is that it doesn’t divide “municipal” from “creative” resources – it mixes them so both sides can meet in the middle. There are guides to help artists prove the real-world impact of their work, and templates for cities to map out who needs to be involved, from local activists to the cultural sector. Timelines are designed so creative freedom and civic deadlines don’t clash, while impact frameworks give artists the words to describe their social value and give municipalities a way to measure it.

You’ll find advice on how to bring communities in as co-creators, not just audiences, and provides tips for making projects visible, memorable, and long-lasting. Training materials support the skills needed for sustained collaboration, while practical tools like contract and procurement guidance keep partnerships running smoothly. And with built-in feedback methods, every project can evolve and stay connected to the people it serves.

Explore the Toolkit

The CCI4Change Toolkit doesn’t treat creativity as decoration, it puts it at the centre of climate strategy. By offering tools that speak to both municipal planners and creative professionals, it ensures collaboration isn’t just possible, but productive. The result? Climate action that’s practical, measurable, and emotionally unforgettable.

Discover it here: www.cci4change.eu/toolkit

The project “CCI4Change: Facilitation of Citizens Energy Consumption Behavioural Change in Baltic Sea Cities and Municipalities” is co-funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.