European Creative Hubs Network

🎉Hub Stories: BAUTOPIA Special Edition!

As we get closer to BAUTOPIA Festival 2026, we’re introducing you to the venues that will host the our events, and the stories behind these spaces.

📍 First up: BIOS, Pireos 84 (BIOS exploring urban culture)

A multidisciplinary cultural space in Athens where contemporary art, performance, music, emerging creative practices, and urban culture come together.

⬅️ Swipe to meet the venue, and stay tuned for the next stop!
Register for BAUTOPIA now: https://bautopia.creativehubs.net/

🎉Hub Stories: BAUTOPIA Special Edition!

As we get closer to BAUTOPIA Festival 2026, we’re introducing you to the venues that will host the our events, and the stories behind these spaces.

📍 First up: BIOS, Pireos 84  Bios Exploring Urban Culture

A multidisciplinary cultural space in Athens where contemporary art, performance, music, emerging creative practices, and urban culture come together.

⬅️ Swipe to meet the venue, and stay tuned for the next stop!

📍 Meet Anceu Coliving, our member from Galicia, Spain! 🇪🇸

We’re still in vacation mode (at least in our minds), so Anceu's space made us want to share their story this week! 🌿

Located in the Galician countryside, Anceu brings together local residents, remote workers, creatives, and international communities around shared learning and collaboration.

⬅️ Swipe to discover more!

Sustainability is more than an environmental question.

At BAUTOPIA 7, we'll explore how creativity can be sustained professionally, economically, emotionally, and beyond.

🔗 Secure your spot today: https://bautopia.creativehubs.net/

🔙 When Espazo A Maceta visited Culture Hub Croatia!
Let's revisit some of the ECHN Exchanges that took place throughout the year.

❓ What happens when two coastal creative hubs, rooted in different cultural and geographical contexts, come together to explore how art, community, and spatial transformation intersect?

🔸 The program brought together Alba Fernández Arias, founder of Espazo A Maceta (Muros, Spain), and Marina Batinić, co-founder of Culture Hub Croatia (Split, Croatia), including the team behind PROSTOR, to develop a shared framework for collaboration and explore the foundations of a future European cooperation project.

Learn more: https://creativehubs.net/experience-stories.php

* The P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Learning Program is an exchange between creative hub managers across Europe, designed to help them connect, learn, and collaborate. This program is organised by ECHN - European Creative Hubs Network and co-funded by the European Union.

💭 When The Lissome visited Barbot Bernardo / Saber Fazer
Let's revisit some of the ECHN Exchanges that took place throughout the year.

❓ What happens when an independent publishing platform meets a creative studio rooted in design, craft, and agroecology?

🔸For five days in Porto, The Lissome (Berlin, Germany) and Barbot Bernardo / Saber Fazer (Porto, Portugal) came together for a peer-to-peer learning exchange exploring how storytelling, craftsmanship, and ecological thinking can strengthen creative organisations and the communities they serve.

🔸 Bringing together Dörte de Jesus, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lissome, and Miguel Bernardo, founder of Barbot Bernardo, the exchange created space to share organisational practices, explore collaborative opportunities, and reflect on the role of culture in building more regenerative futures.

🔗 Learn more: https://creativehubs.net/experience-stories.php

Note: The P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Learning Program is an exchange between creative hub managers across Europe, designed to help them connect, learn, and collaborate. This program is organised by ECHN - European Creative Hubs Network and co-funded by the European Union.

We are surrounded by technologies that promise to empower us. Yet many creative professionals feel increasingly uncertain about their work, their future and their ability to influence change.

Join the conversation at BAUTOPIA 7, October 7-9, Athens.
👉 Register now: https://bautopia.creativehubs.net/

📍 Meet CRU Creative Hub, our member from Porto, Portugal! 🇵🇹

Located in Bombarda, Porto's vibrant arts district, CRU Creative Hub is a space where artists, designers, makers, and creative entrepreneurs come together to work, collaborate, and build community.

Swipe and discover how CRU is helping strengthen Porto's creative ecosystem through collaboration, local connections, and long-term community building.

Image credits: CRU Creative Hub

📍 Meet Comincenter, our member from Potenza, Italy! 🇮🇹

Based at the University of Basilicata, Comincenter connects academia, businesses, and young talent through innovation, training, and collaboration. Its co-working spaces, workshops, 3D Labs, and the annual Festival delle Opportunità create opportunities for learning, networking, and professional growth while strengthening connections across the local creative ecosystem.

Swipe to learn more and visit their website: https://www.comincenter.it/
We're proud to have you as part of the European Creative Hubs Network 💛