H&ART Incubator

The H&ART Incubator envisions a vibrant European ecosystem where art, heritage, culture, technology, and entrepreneurship intersect to inspire innovation, empower communities, and foster sustainable development. It aspires to become a centre of expertise for transnational collaboration that strengthens Europe’s cultural and creative industries while shaping a more inclusive, resilient, and future-oriented society. 

The mission of the H&ART Incubator is to support start-ups, emerging artists, and individuals in developing their business ideas and creative projects in the cultural and creative industries. By providing access to shared spaces, resources, mentorship, and expertise across eleven universities from the KreativEU Alliance and their local ecosystems, the H&ART Incubator nurtures innovation and entrepreneurial mindsets. Through incubation, artistic residency, mentoring, student competition programmes, and observatory-driven knowledge services, it cultivates talent, drives cross-disciplinary initiatives, and generates insights to inform policies at local, national, and European levels.

For an initial overview of the H&ART Incubator, we recommend taking a look at this brochure.

Learn more about the structure, rules and procedures for the joint management of the H&ART Incubator in this document.

Mentors

The H&ART Incubator and its local branch at the University of Greifswald invites experienced professionals, practitioners, researchers, creatives, and experts to apply for inclusion in its Transnational Mentor Pool.

Incubatees

The H&ART Incubator invites artists, students, start-ups, creative professionals, cultural managers, researchers, innovators, and interdisciplinary teams to apply for participation in its incubation programme.

Incubator Info Days

To give you a better understanding of the H&ART Incubator project, the KreativEU team organised two information sessions in May 2026. The first was aimed primarily at internal (university) stakeholders, whilst the second was geared more towards potential external stakeholders – though the core agenda was almost identical. 

You can find the presentation materials here [in German only].

You are also welcome to contact us at any time, for example by email at heart.incubatoruni-greifswaldde or by telephone: +49 (0) 3834 420-1272.