Join the summer learning sessions with NDPC!

14 / 05 / 2025
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Sharpen Your Creative Career: A Three-Part Workshop Series

Over the past season, we’ve developed powerful new tools to support creative professionals in building stronger, more sustainable careers. In this three-part workshop series, we’ll share key insights and practical resources tailored for artists, cultural practitioners, and creatives across disciplines, especially those seeking fresh approaches to career development.

We’ll explore core strategies for thriving in a competitive landscape, with a strong focus on new opportunities for cross-sector collaboration beyond traditional creative fields.

Each 75-minute session stands on its own – you’re welcome to attend just one or join all three! The format remains consistent: each session introduces one actionable tool, offers a chance to apply it through interactive exercises, and concludes with peer dialogue among participants from the Baltic Sea Region and across Europe.

Applications are open until the day before each session – don’t be late 

REGISTER FOR THE LEARNING SESSIONS NOW

Session #1
A New Workbook for Navigating a Creative Career

🗓️ Date: June 16, 2025
⏱️ Time: 11 am EEST

This session introduces a practical workbook created by NDPC and partners in the CreativeGPS project. It addresses six essential areas for managing and advancing a creative career:

  • Building an expert brand
  • Enhancing your job search
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Social media strategy
  • Networking
  • Cross-sector collaborations

You’ll download the workbook, explore its content, and learn how to apply it effectively in your own career journey.

Session #2
Cross-Collaborations for Climate Action

🗓️ Date: June 17, 2025
⏱️ Time: 11 am EEST

Are you curious about partnering with municipalities or cities to drive climate action? This session presents the CCI4Change project collaboration tool, designed to facilitate meaningful partnerships between creatives and local authorities.

You’ll discover how creatives can work alongside officials and communities to tackle ecological challenges, and how to launch similar initiatives in your local area using the CCI4Change framework.

Session #3
Exploring Arts & Wellbeing Business Models

🗓️ Date: June 18, 2025
⏱️ Time: 11 am EEST

In this session, we’ll dive into the key takeaways from the casebook “Growing a Viable Entrepreneurial Model at the Intersection of the Arts and Wellbeing: Insights from Five Cases” and take a closer look at the benchmarking results from the AWAKE project, which explored some of the most effective business models in arts and wellbeing entrepreneurship. Together, we’ll examine five real-world cases from the arts and health sector and identify elements that could be applied to other types of creative businesses.

You’ll explore an inspiring case study and examine how applying entrepreneurial thinking can make arts and wellbeing initiatives more financially sustainable, ensuring continuity and improved livelihoods for those in the field.

REGISTER HERE FOR YOUR CAREER UPGRADE!

All three webinars are based on the results of our projects, which are co-financed by the European Union.

The project “CreativeGPS: Creative Professionals Navigating the Job Market: Skill Building and Transnational Peer Learning for Added Agency” is co-funded by the European Union Interreg Central Baltic programme. It is implemented by the Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture together with Tallinna Ettevõtlusinkubaator and Taide- ja kulttuurialan ammattijärjestö TAKU ry,

The CCI4Change project is co-funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme to enable creative climate collaborations between local governments and the cultural sector. It is implemented by the Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture together with Administration of Jurmala local government, City of Kotka, Region of Scania, Cursor Oy, Kotka-Hamina Regional Development Company, STPLN, South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Ltd (Xamk).

The AWAKE project is co-funded by the European Union Creative Europe programme and implemented by the Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture together with Lapinlahden Lähde Oy (Centre for Culture, Arts and Mental Well-being), Centrul Cultural Clujean (Cluj Cultural Centre), Pôle Culture & Santé en Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Culture & Health Center).