Covid-19 is having a devastating effect on the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) across Europe. Thus, there is a strong need to enhance the development of entrepreneurial and creative skills of the young generation to stimulate innovation and make the CCS more resilient. However, the creative curriculum has been marginalised in European schools. From UK and Belgium to Greece and Serbia -even before the covid-19 crisis- secondary schools were under enormous pressure to focus on core subjects which resulted in schools being forced to reduce, and even cut, creative and cultural subjects from their curriculum. Hence the CCS and education system need to quickly innovate to provide students, educators and CPs with the understanding, skills and opportunities to support the sector. In parallel, youth unemployment in Europe is high and people who want to work in the CCS need to develop entrepreneurial skills to contribute to the post-covid recovery of the sector. A PEC study found that creative graduates are three times ‘more likely to be self-employed, freelance or running their own business than non-creative graduates’. Moreover, schools across Europe have reported that creativity is one of the most important factors when attempting the new normal. Thus, we need to harness the knowledge and skills of current professionals in the CCS to inspire and educate the students of today and empower them with innovation and entrepreneurial skills, so that they can become the creative, innovative and resilient professionals of the future. The objectives of Creatives Academy project are to: Empower secondary school students to become the creative professionals of the future and contribute to resilient recovery in the CCS by sharpening their creative and entrepreneurial skills; provide students with high quality encounters with creative professionals to provide information and mentoring on both industry knowledge and transversal entrepreneurial thinking and skills; help schools and educators develop the knowledge and confidence for embedding these practices in their educational setting.CA will provide a comprehensive creative, entrepreneurial, careers and competence development based curriculum that harnesses the knowledge and skills of current CPs to inspire and educate secondary school students and empower them to become the creatives of the future. The expected results of the project are: CA framework: creating the project framework which will set out the rationale, contexts, practices and processes for the Creatives Academy (CA) model; CA Student curriculum: the project will provide a comprehensive handbook and resources for educators to implement the CA framework and foster the creative futures of young people; CA Toolkit for Teachers, will provide thoughtful, comprehensive resources, to increase teachers’ confidence and skills in applying the CA curriculum in different settings; CA Audio-visual Guide for CPs will equip CPs with the skills and confidence; a training activity is also planned for the intense training of teachers and CPs. The project aims, through training, pilot applications of project’s outputs, dissemination and multiplier events, at engaging at least 150 secondary school students, more than 200 teachers and CPs and reach out to more than 2000 school staff, arts and education stakeholders, community members and policy makers.A participatory approach and process throughout the project will ensure that each IO is co-created by the whole team and thus benefits from the field- and location-based knowledge of each partner. SEi will be supervising, coordinating and managing the project while the rest of the partners will contribute accordingly and leading their respective IOs. All IOs will follow the phases of ‘Preparation’, ‘Design and Implementation’, ‘Pilot testing at School’, ’Evaluation and Fine-tuning’.The project anticipates a considerable impact on: teachers who will be trained on how to work with CPs within the school environment and curricula, in a cross-sectoral way and enhance their project based thinking leading to their personal and professional development; students who through engagement with CPs professional encounters will enhance innovative thinking, their motivation for the CCS, gain quality knowledge in the field of creativity and entrepreneurship to become more resilient; CPs will increase their professional capacity of working in a schools and develop new audience. The project will also have considerable impact on schools’ profiles which will pluralise their curricula. CA aims at eventually opening the dialogue with policy makers on the importance of the creativity and entrepreneurship education and the support to the CCS as such. Main Exploitation Goal: to ensure that CA outputs will be utilised after the project completion by secondary education schools in the 4 partnering countries and beyond to foster the next generation of creative thinkers and changemakers in Europe.