Materahub

Materahub (Italy) is a strategic design hub working to foster local development by promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, networking and cross-fertilization. The experience of Materahub professional team is mainly focused on the Culture and Creative sector, cultural heritage, tourism, social innovation, innovation in education and enterprise and all those economic sectors which are relevant for the growth and wealth of the community. These sectors have been supported by tailored capacity building programs, research & development actions, innovation pilot projects based on cross-fertilization between sectors (specially creative driven initiatives). 

In the last 10 years, Materahub has been involved in EU funded projects both as coordinator and as strategic partner, running initiatives under Erasmus+, COSME, H2020, Interreg Europe, Creative Europe as well as projects funded by ERDF and ESF. The team of Materahub is made of over 20 professionals divided in project management area, communication area (social media management, graphics and web design), research & development area, administration. Materahub has been working on capacity building for creative and cultural industries (CCls) since its foundation in 2011. The main topic of our effort has been to develop key competences felt by the sector as key and most needed. 

Specifically, we are focused on: entrepreneurial competences development to support artists and cultural operators to design and develop sustainable projects, digital competences for the production and for audience engagement, new skills to let cultural organisations exploit their innovation potential and so working in cross-collaboration with other sectors like local development, SMEs, health.