Culture & Creativity: Driving repair, regeneration and resilience

Maltfabrikken 28.-29. september 2026

ECOSYSTEM Event #4 by Aarhus University and the CCSI Ecosystem, Region Central Denmark

We invite you to join us for two days of inspiration and pathways for action and ask the question of how Culture, Creativity, and Art drive societal resilience and creative repair across local communities and European regions.

We will inspire, share, discuss on how to further inclusion, built capacity, fuel cross-innovation and built new collaborations

The Ecosystem Event is linked with the EIT Culture and Creativity Co-location Center Open Day in Aarhus on 1.-2. October 2026.

and with the Time Machine-event in Aarhus on 30. September: Where Cultural Heritage Meets Creative Innovation

PROGRAM

28.09. Site visits in Ebeltoft

Arrival before lunch

13:30
Meeting point: Maltfabrikken (foyer area – greeting and name tags)

14:00
Visit at Fregatten Jylland (Heritage Landmark): Director Anne-Marie Dohm

14:45
Visit to GLAS: Museum of Modern Glas Art: Director Mikkel Elming

15:45
Go’ Kaffe (Good Coffee) with an introduction to a circular economy model: Founder Bjarke Mathias Jensen

16:30
Own time in Ebeltoft: Cultural herritage in harbour Areas and Old Town

18:00
Communal dinner (self paid) at Maltfabrikken

20:00
Optional visit to the Brewery at Maltfabrikken


29.09. Maltfabrikken, ’Støbesalen’

09:00
Arrival, Welcome and Mingling at Maltfabrikken (Coffee)

09:30
Welcme to Maltfabrikken by Director Kristian Krog

09:40
Mayor Michael Harregaard Stegger and Chair of Cultural Committee Michael Mikkelsen:
Ebeltoft and Southern Djurs for creative regeneration

09:50
Kati Uusi-Rauva, Director, EIT Culture & Creativity North:
The impact of Culture & Creativity

10:00
Adriënne Heijnen & Marianne Huang, Aarhus University:
Repair, Regeneration, Resilience / Belonging, Being, Becoming

10:20
Presentation and Tour at Maltfabrikken by Director Kristian Krog

11:30
Hanna Olsson, Senior Project Manager:
Trans Europe Halles – regenerating industrial heritage with culture and repairing communities

12:00
Lunch

During the afternoon, coffee, tea and water is served in the room, and you’re free to move

13:00
Living Program (more to come): Regional Ecosystem interventions
Louise Godt, Culture Advisor, Central Denmark EU Office
& Lene Øster, Head of Secretariat, Culture Department, City of Aarhus:
Cultural Collaborations across Region Central Denmark

14:00
Ambra Trotto, Director of RIS and Transformations, EIT Culture and Creativity:
Ecosystem Transformation, Resilience Roadmaps for regenerative Systemic Change.

14:20
Paolo Montemurro, Founder and Director of Matera Hub:
Building Regional Creative Skills Partnerships

14:40
Marlene Johansson (Senior Researcher at RI:SE) & Jenny Kornmacher (Creative Industries and Cross-innovation, Skåne County):
Cross-innovation in Practice – actions done, dreams to catch

15:00
Sharing on dreams and further actions

15:20
Visit to Generation Reparation – the recurrent intergenerational textile repair workshop at Maltfabrikken

From 16:00
Departure towards Aarhus by public transportation (busses leave every half hour or hourly, and go to central Aarhus)