Case study · EU Projects · Horizon Europe

Listening to Europe's creative communities.

Nextatlas powers the CCI Social Media Observatory for ekip, a Horizon Europe policy platform — surfacing weak signals across Europe's cultural and creative industries.

ekipCCI OBSERVATORY
10K+
CREATIVE PROFILES IN THE OBSERVATORY
12
SPECIAL FOCUS REPORTS DELIVERED
4
EU MACRO-REGIONS COVERED
9
CULTURAL & CREATIVE INDUSTRY SECTORS
The challenge

Steer policy with forward evidence.

The Horizon Europe ekip programme needed forward-looking evidence on emerging behaviours, skills and cultural shifts to steer a multi-year research agenda across Europe's creative industries.

The observatory

Six capabilities, one listening layer.

The CCI Social Media Observatory combines community detection, AI-powered listening, weak-signal detection, regional intelligence, sentiment analysis and trend correlation — a single layer that reads Europe's creative communities.

In focus

Fashion Transition and the Enoughness Era.

Special Focus #8, "Fashion Transition: Eco-design for Circularity," clustered the field into four directions and surfaced "The Enoughness Era" — a shift toward sufficiency over excess.

The reach

From AI to cultural heritage.

The work spans policy areas from AI & CCI and the New European Bauhaus to immersive media, music platformisation, fashion transition and cultural heritage — twelve focus reports in all.

Twelve special-focus reports across nine creative sectors — weak signals turned into policy-grade foresight.
THE TAKEAWAY

Bring foresight into your research programme.

See how Nextatlas signal could ground a multi-year research agenda.

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