CREAPOLIS Malta 2026
Diversification through Culture
Dates: 5–9 October 2026
Location: Malta
Working language: English
Application deadline: 4 June 2026, 17:00 CEST
Culture Venture is proud to host the Malta edition of CREAPOLIS 2026, a European exchange and capacity-building programme for Ukrainian professionals working across culture, civic life, education, innovation, entrepreneurship, and local development.
This year’s edition, Diversification through Culture, explores how culture operates within Malta’s dense and interconnected cultural ecosystem. In Malta, culture functions simultaneously as heritage, contemporary practice, community expression, public service, and economic activity. These layers exist side by side, creating hybrid forms of governance and overlapping roles between institutions, civic actors, cultural practitioners, and communities.
Rather than presenting culture as a standalone creative field, the programme looks at how cultural value is produced, negotiated, and redistributed across institutions, public space, tourism, education, and community networks. The focus is on processes, decision-making structures, and systemic dynamics — not on showcasing isolated success stories.
Malta’s compact scale makes these relationships especially visible. Policy decisions often translate quickly into lived cultural realities, offering participants a unique environment in which to examine how cultural ecosystems operate under civic, economic, and geopolitical pressure.
Programme focus
The Malta edition will explore:
- Diversification of cultural practice across heritage, craft, contemporary arts, and community traditions
- Hybrid governance models involving public institutions, independent organisations, and informal networks
- Culture as a driver of tourism, place-based economies, and local development
- Cultural transmission, knowledge sharing, and identity-building processes
- Collaboration between public authorities, civil society, and cultural practitioners
- Adaptive cultural strategies within resource-constrained environments
What participants can expect
Participants will take part in a one-week immersive programme in Malta, combining field visits, peer exchange, practical learning, and dialogue with local and European cultural practitioners.
The programme offers:
- A hands-on learning experience in Malta
- Practical tools and collaborative methodologies
- Exchange with local experts and European peers
- Dialogue with Ukrainian professionals from diverse backgrounds and regions
- Inspiration and applied knowledge for Ukraine’s recovery and future development
- Access to a European network for continued cooperation
All travel, accommodation, and programme costs are covered.
Who can apply?
Applications are open to Ukrainian professionals currently based in Ukraine and engaged in community and civic development through culture, education, innovation, entrepreneurship, or local development.
This may include:
- Civil servants and local policymakers
- Educators, researchers, and social innovators
- Cultural and creative entrepreneurs
- Community organisers and local development actors
Applicants should demonstrate clear motivation, relevant experience, and a commitment to applying insights from CREAPOLIS within their local Ukrainian context.
Apply
To apply, please complete the application form and tell us about your background, your current work, and why you wish to take part in CREAPOLIS.
Click HERE to apply.