SDECE 2025

Strategic Dialogue on the European Creative Economy

On June 4, 2025, from 9.00 to 16.00 CET, the Strategic Dialogue on the European Creative Economy (SDECE) 2025 is taking place in Brussels, Belgium, striving to influence future EU policies on culture and creativity.
This high-level roundtable, organised by the European Federation for Creative Economy (CreativeFED), brings together representatives of government, industry, academia, and civil society to discuss strategies that foster innovation, protect intellectual property, and reinforce Europe’s creative leadership.

Opening and Welcome: Christina Ortega, Chair of CreativeFED Advisory Board & Bernd Fesel, CEOEIT Culture and Creativity
Keynote speaker: Dr.Christian Ehler (MEP)onthe 'Current Political Framework for the European Creative Economy'
Four Provocations: Pressing Topics for the European Creative Economy

• Creative Skills for a Sovereign Single Market and Competitiveness: Cultural Autonomy as a Economic Strategy
• The Creative Economy as an Engine of the New Clean Industrial Deal: Sustainabilty, Green CCIs, Resilient Economy
• Creatives For Europe - European Democracy Shield: Creativity as Democratic Infrastructure
• Strategic Cultural Autonomyfor Global Expansion & Cultural Diplomacy

The programme further offers a presentation of the CreativeFED's position paper linked to a discussion on cultural autonomy and followed bya cross-project dialogue with inputs from different EU projects under four themes:

• Single Market and Competitiveness
• Sustainabilty, Green CCIs and Resilient Economy
• European Democracy Shield
• Strategic Cultural Autonomy

Join in, use your voice and influence the future of EU policies on culture and creativity!