The European Investment Fund (EIF) is providing investment fund ST’ART with access to the InvestEU guarantee facility. This means that ST’ART will be able to launch new products and offer up to €24m (£21m/$25m) worth of financing to cultural and creative businesses in Wallonia and Brussels, in Belgium, over the next three years. The aim …
UNESCO reports 10 million creative job losses
A UNESCO report has revealed that 10 million jobs across the creative industries were lost in 2020 alone, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Reshaping Policies for Creativity report’s foreword, the director-general of the United Nations’ cultural body, UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, wrote: “The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented crisis in …