C-Factor

C-Factor / Manufacturing Curiosity is a European initiative aiming to foster the contribution of new technologies to the diversity of Culture & Media contents. Its goal is to support European entrepreneurial endeavours that contribute to promote the diversity of cultural expressions online and smart innovation in the sector of cultural and creative industries, on the basis of the values promoted by several European and international commitments – such as 2005 UNESCO's Convention on the diversity of cultural expressions, the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) framework of the European Union (H2020) and the European Agenda for Culture (EU Commission, 2018). Its initial structure is a Paris-based non-profit organisation, backed by the Foundation Mines ParisTech (Paris Sciences & Lettres Research University). C-Factor's objectives are to contribute to: - New sustainable solutions for the curation of cultural contents in users' contexts of hyper-choice, identifying technology and design solutions in favour of the discoverability of cultural goods – including new recommendation tools, new formats with plausible commercial viability beyond multimedia prototyping, new capacity-building solutions for art & cultural education. - A network-based approach of innovation in CCI in Europe, based on parallel decentralised dynamics (research / investment / partners incubators), in order to promote new forms of territorial sustainability for innovation ecosystems in Culture & Media.