It has been a busy few months for CREW; much like the new season, a lot of the projects we have been working on over the winter months have started to grow shoots, and there is a real sense of spring in the air. We are excited to share some updates and upcoming events with our community. We broke ground on the CREW Innovation Hub which is located on campus at ATU Galway City (Wellpark Road) at the end of 2022, and every week brings exciting progress. We are on schedule to open our doors at the end of the year and look forward to welcoming a variety of creative industries companies and organisations into the space which will provide a meeting place for CreaTech in the west. Keep an eye on our social media and website for updates! Thank you to Enterprise Ireland ATU Galway City School of Design and Creative Arts & Western Development Commission for your vision, funding and ongoing support in delivering this very exciting project. Our second incubator, the Creative Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development certificate (CEED) launched in January. This programme, for early stage CreaTech Entrepreneurs has been developed and delivered in partnership with ATU Galway City School of Design and Creative Arts with funding support from the Local Enterprise Office Galway TG4, Enterprise Ireland, Údarás na Gaeltachta and Skillnet Ireland CEED Incubator Programme 2023 CEED Incubator Programme 2023 CEED is supported by a network of industry mentors from across Ireland. Thank you to Declan Droney, Jessica Fuller, Laura Hegarty, Diarmaid Ó Fátharta, Sean Cummings, Context Studio and Robert Rosenberg for sharing your expertise with us. Ainslie Peters, CREW’s newly appointed Programme and Community Manager has been working with industry, creative entrepreneurs and our stakeholders to develop a variety of Creative Entrepreneurship programmes and we look forward to announcing them over the coming months. We are delighted to welcome CREW's partners on the collaborative #SPECTRA EU project, from Bulgaria, Denmark and Germany to Galway in January. #SPECTRA is led by the Western Development Commission; Funded by the European Union under @HorizonEU. The #SPECTRA consortium is looking forward to strengthening innovation leadership & culture in moderate + emerging innovator regions to further broaden their innovation ecosystems. In February, we helped to welcome the #Cybernate Digital Residency artists to Galway. Galway Culture Company developed Cybernate - a Digital Arts Research Residency in partnership with CREW, Pôle PIXEL, Embassy of France in Ireland the ATU Galway City School of Design and Creative Arts...
CREW secures planning for new Creative Industries Innovation Hub for 180 entrepreneurs at GMIT Cluain Mhuire Campus. CREW, the new collaborative not for profit company established by GMIT, The Western Development Commission and Galway Film Centre to develop and support the creative industries sectors along the Atlantic Economic Corridor are delighted to announce that its proposal for planning permission and development of an innovation hub has been approved by Galway City Council. The brand-new Innovation Hub designed by Cronin Architects in Kinvara will commence construction in quarter 2 of 2022 and aims to be fully operational for the summer of 2023 at GMIT’s, Cluain Mhuire Campus. The CREW Innovation Hub will provide space for 180 entrepreneurs, start-ups and new FDI companies in the CreaTech sector. In addition it is designed as a hub and event space which will cater for training, networking and business events which will bring together start-ups, the creative enterprise sector, students, academics and the local community. The overall aim is to foster creative industry business growth, job creation along with core development, enhancement, and investment in the sector. CREW led by Chief Executive Niamh Costello has worked hand in hand with Cronin Architects to design and create a new and unique two-storey building which will be sustainable in its design and energy, while complimenting the existing historic Cluain Mhuire campus buildings. Set to the front of the GMIT campus on the green, tree lined space along the Wellpark Road, the new CREW Innovation Hub is designed to reveal itself through the existing trees upon entering the site. Enhancing the existing green space at GMIT Cluain Mhuire, it will also improve pedestrianisation though the re-establishment of a historic secondary entrance to the front of existing buildings via pedestrian route from the Wellpark road. The two-storey building will provide a vibrant stand-alone building on the existing GMIT Creative Arts campus at Cluain Mhuire and will provide flexible multi-unit co-working space for companies in the Creative Technology sector. CREW and the appointed architects, Cronin’s are focused on the sustainability of this new building and have ensured the new building is orientated to maximize the advantage of passive solar gain exceeding present standards. CREW envisages that credentials will include a very high performing building envelope, high airtightness standards, green scaping and permeable hardscaping. Rainwater harvesting, renewal heating, cooling power are all part of the development and an overall ambition to...
