City Case Description: Košice & New European Bauhaus

As eastern Slovakia’s economic and cultural center, Košice is shaping its future through a strong creative infrastructure and a commitment to innovation. This City Case Description explores how the city integrates cultural and creative industries (CCI) into urban transformation under the New European Bauhaus (NEB) framework. With its rich history, preserved architectural heritage, and role as a UNESCO Creative City for New Media Art, Košice demonstrates how CCIs can drive sustainable and inclusive development, bridging culture, industry, and technology to reimagine urban spaces.

How does it work?

As soon as a policy area and its relation to cultural and creative industries and innovation has been investigated by the ekip research team, we explore what this would mean in a local city context. Together with local stakeholders, we find out what the draft policy recommendation could stimulate in
terms of innovation locally. To understand better the strengths and gaps of the local support system, the local stakeholders simulate an innovation portfolio case and analyse what it would need in terms of resources and support to be realised. One of the outcomes of the policy assessments is a series of case descriptions that tells the story of how different local actors identify relevant projects, ideas, resources and initiatives and start drafting an innovation portfolio. This case description only reflects the views of the workshop participants. It doesn’t aspire to give a comprehensive picture or analysis. Each City Case Description is a unique perspective from a local city context across Europe that we hope will inspire and ignite action.