01.06.2011 - Apply now! Become a Creative Driver

Creative Drive, Interreg IV A project of the Euregio Maas-Rhine, starts a second project phase. The city of Aachen and the GründerZentrum Kulturwirtschaft together with partners from Heerlen and Liege call for applications.

It’s as simple as that, in order to apply for creative Drive you can submit your application online and select one of the three cities with their different thematic focus. An advisory board as well as a jury will select the Creative Drivers, on the basis of the applications and personal in-depth interviews.

There are no certain criteria to apply; it is up to you as an applicant. Aspiring small and micro-entrepreneurs, students, freelancers or any other actors of the creative industry: music, book market, arts, film and broadcasting industry, design, architecture, publishing sector, advertising or software and games industry. Most importantly, you have the drive to create, to be a pioneer. You should be open to professionalize yourself in your business and to also be qualified on other interfaces in new markets and branches.

Creative Drive offers participants:

•  a valuable network among other creative enterprises, new partners and new clients within and beyond their previous fields of business
• professional development in exciting practice-based projects within international teams
• qualification in fields such as customer acquisition, marketing and management: on the job and in the company of experts and other Creative Drivers
• a strong media presence, for instance through work in media relations in the context of the competition, the production of a documentary, or a media partnership
• the "Creative Drive" label and a role as an ambassador of this concept
• new impulses for creative entrepreneurship
• a grant for your living, a work space and accommodation (for those not living in the Euregio)