DL177 - Certificate Cultural Entrepreneurship
What is Cultural Entrepreneurship?
Our new course in Cultural Entrepreneurship offers you management tools and methods in developing strong conceptual projects and/or business ideas. It will help you to develop those ideas through ideation techniques, project and time management, and to pitch and prepare a concept for funding and/or investment.
The aim of this micro-credential is to enable learners, who are experienced in working in arts and creative and cultural sector, to develop entrepreneurial skills related to developing their business or project concept through a combination of ideation techniques from business entrepreneurship and techniques from creative sector.
What will I do on this course?
You will work on a creative business proposal or artistic funding proposal. Typical activities include:
- Mapping the sector. Introduction to creative ideation techniques (design thinking, brainstorming, mind mapping)
- Understanding the arts and cultural sectors, balancing creative and business tasks, tools and templates for project management
- Understanding public vs private potential of creative project/business.
- Understanding the legal implications of the proposal e.g. company, contract, public liability, employment law
- Finance: Creating project budget: accurate cost estimation, financial projections, resource allocation, cash flow management
- Develop the pitch – written proposal for funding application/investment, in person oral pitch.
How will I be assessed?
Assessment is 100% project based.
Written Proposal for a creative project/business
Project Overview
You are required to develop a written proposal for a new cultural creative business or event, where you must:
- investigate a funding opportunity related to your practice
- apply resource investigative skills to accurately project costs and resources related to your proposal
- demonstrate an understanding of the profile of your audience for your output
- demonstrate understanding of the financial and legal risks associated with your proposal
- clearly and convincingly articulate your project or business concept.
Presentation
You will ensure that your proposal is well-structured, easy to follow, and professionally presented.
Dates + Times
Classes take place one evening online per week and two Saturdays in person as follows:
Saturday, 17th October 2026 | on campus | 10am – 4pm
Tuesday evenings | online | 7.30pm – 9pm:
- 20th October
- 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th November
Saturday, 28th November | on campus | 10am – 4pm
Fees + Scholarships
Creative Futures Academy are delighted to collaborate with Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet to offer a special partnership rate of €320 for qualifying candidates, which include those resident in the Republic of Ireland and not already in receipt of a bursary, grant aid or a scholarship for this course and not participating in a CE scheme or in receipt of Unemployment Benefit.
Fees for those who do not meet the Skillnet criteria are €600.
This Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet programme is co-funded by the Government of Ireland & the European Union. www.eufunds.ie
