Bootcamp for Sustainable Creatives
How to achieve Environmental, Social and Financial Sustainability
29.03.2025 11:00 - 21:00
Sustainability isn’t just a trend—it’s the future of the creative industries. As a new wave of artists, designers, and makers, you have the power to shape a more conscious and impactful creative world.
Join us for an immersive, all-day experience where we break down the connections between ecological, social, and financial sustainability. How do they clash? Where do they align? And most importantly—how can you build a creative career that thrives while making a difference?
Expect eye-opening discussions, hands-on insights, and real-world strategies to help you navigate the intersection of creativity, sustainability, and business. If you're ready to build a creative career that lasts, this is your call to action.
The Bootcamp for Sustainable Creatives is part of the EntreYouth project, in collaboration with Buinho and BDK – Youth and Culture Art Center, financed by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission.
Agenda
10:00 - 10:45 From Vision to Venture: Crafting a Business Plan for Creatives by Konstantinos Milleounis
10:50 - 11:35 Financial Opportunities for Artists, Innovators, and Makers by Neda Tozija
11:40 - 12:25 Sustaining Creativity: How to price, budget, and thrive financially by Nada Tozija Uzal
12:25 - 12:40 Coffee Break
12:40 - 13:25 Circularity in design by Nada Tozija Uzal
13:30 - 14:15 Building and growing a small audience for creative entrepreneurs by Katerina Papatryfon Drako
14:15 - 15:20 Lunch Break (complementary by the event)
15:20 - 16:20 Why m.other? by m.other (Katerina Pataka, Anastasia Tsoka, Tania Varveri)
16:30 - 18:00 Designing for Impact: A co-creation workshop on Social Sustainability by Kostas Mavrias
18:00 - 19:00 Break
19:00 - 20:20 Circular Talks - Speakers to be announced
20:20 - 21:00 Networking drinks
Attendance is free, but seats are limited—so be sure to register in advance to secure your spot. Please let us know if you would only like to attend the Circular Talks.
Topics and speakers
From Vision to Venture: Crafting a Business Plan for Creatives
Your business plan is the script for your creative success, the canvas where your ideas take shape, and the roadmap to financial freedom. Gain clarity, structure, and a framework to build a future where your creativity thrives—both professionally and financially. Learn how to transform your artistic vision into a sustainable business strategy
Konstantinos Milleounis brings a unique perspective, forged by a blend of skills and expertise in launching and scaling projects and ventures across industries. A problem solver at heart, he thrives on transformative ideas, crafting innovative solutions, and optimising resources to ignite creativity. His experience spans business intelligence, service design, strategy, sustainability, and social impact entrepreneurship, sharpened through collaboration with diverse teams and backgrounds.
Financial Opportunities for Artists, Innovators, and Makers
In this interactive session, you’ll discover the essential tools to fund your creative enterprise and turn your ideas into reality. We’ll explore diverse funding sources—crowdfunding, microfunding, and European grants—so you can find the right fit for your journey. Beyond learning about financial opportunities, this session is also a chance to connect with fellow creatives, exchange insights, and gain inspiration from each other’s experiences. Together, we’ll unlock new possibilities to fuel your passion and sustain your creative work!
Neda Tozija is a co-founder of TransfoLAB ATH and TransfoLAB BCN, and leads their international projects. With over 20 years of experience in product, project, and organizational management, she has worked with major global brands and led international, multidisciplinary teams in delivering integrated digital solutions. Today, she focuses on optimizing project and product life cycles through Circular Economy, Social innovation and Sustainable Project Development—ensuring positive returns for the projects, the society and the environment. She holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA.
Sustaining Creativity: How to Price, Budget, and Thrive Financially
Pricing and budgeting can be challenging for creatives—but they don’t have to be! In this engaging session, we’ll break down practical strategies to help you confidently price your work, create sustainable budgets, and build a financially resilient creative career. Beyond the numbers, this is also a space for open dialogue, where you can share insights, exchange experiences, and learn from fellow creatives. Together, we’ll explore ways to balance passion with profitability—because your creativity deserves to be valued!
Nada Tozija Uzal - is one of the founders of TransfoLAB BCN and TransfoLAB ATH. An architect by vocation, Nada has a Master's degree in Business and International Trade from the University of Orleans, France, and a Master's in the Independent Studies Program from MACBA and UAB. Her international experience ranges from short stays in Tunisia, Brazil and Wales, urban development projects in the United States, villa design in Mallorca and building and interior design projects in Macedonia. Having had experience in contemporary design and production practices, she showed an interest in sustainable and ecological design, the circular economy and the transformation/reuse of objects and materials, and in turn, manufacturing.
Circularity in design
How can creatives drive meaningful change through sustainable and circular design? This lecture explores how designers, artists, and innovators can move beyond the "take, make, waste" model to create more responsible and regenerative work. Through inspiring case studies and practical strategies, we’ll uncover how sustainability isn’t just a necessity—it’s an opportunity for innovation. Join us to rethink materials, processes, and creative impact for a more sustainable future.
Nada Tozija Uzal - is one of the founders of TransfoLAB BCN and TransfoLAB ATH. An architect by vocation, Nada has a Master's degree in Business and International Trade from the University of Orleans, France, and a Master's in the Independent Studies Program from MACBA and UAB. Her international experience ranges from short stays in Tunisia, Brazil and Wales, urban development projects in the United States, villa design in Mallorca and building and interior design projects in Macedonia. Having had experience in contemporary design and production practices, she showed an interest in sustainable and ecological design, the circular economy and the transformation/reuse of objects and materials, and in turn, manufacturing.
Building and growing a small audience for creative entrepreneurs
Ever wondered how to turn casual subscribers into loyal customers? In this course, you'll dive into the world of email marketing and explore why it remains one of the most powerful tools for growing a business. You'll learn how to identify your ideal audience and craft irresistible offers that build a high-quality email list. But it doesn’t stop there—I'll show you how to nurture those connections, transforming subscribers into engaged, long-term supporters of your brand.
Katerina Papatryfon Drako is an entrepreneur, startup mentor, and marketing expert with a diverse background spanning corporate, startup, and NYC agency environments. Born in NYC and raised between New York and Athens, she studied Advertising and Communication Design at FIT, NYC, where she developed a passion for digital technology. With experience working with Fortune 500 brands and Small-to-Medium businesses, she specializes in leveraging digital platforms, optimizing marketing strategies, and building strong customer journeys. Now, as a mentor, she empowers entrepreneurs with strategic guidance to drive growth and success.
Why m.other?
How easy is it to be a young artist in today’s Greece? How differently would art be shaped if we all knew the contemporary reality of a creator?
Out of the need to take action, we conducted research, giving young artists a space to express themselves—bringing their struggles to light and seeking solutions.
Out of the need to find solutions, m.other was born—a community that co-shapes an art world on our own terms, where visibility and collectivity become tools for growth and change.
And out of the need for a questionnaire to change the art context, m.other invites you to an open discussion, by and about art.
m.other is a community willing to reshape the cultural landscape, by raising awareness of artists and art, backed by research-driven knowledge. Driven by a vision of a more transparent and ethical art world, we seek to promote unity and ensure that art-- and the voices behind it -- are truly seen.
Designing for Impact: A Co-Creation Workshop on Social Sustainability
How can creatives shape a more socially sustainable world? In this interactive co-design workshop, we’ll explore the power of creativity to drive positive change. Through dynamic brainstorming and collaborative discussions, we’ll uncover ways to make our work more ethical, inclusive, and impactful. This is more than a workshop—it’s a space for visionaries, makers, and changemakers to exchange ideas, inspire one another, and co-create solutions that put people and the planet at the heart of creativity. Join us and be part of the movement toward a more sustainable future!
Business administration graduate and veteran photographer, Kostas has developed his storytelling by covering sustainability initiatives in Southern Europe. In the years leading production activities of Cinergies Co-Op he developed a keen interest in emergent economic and production models, as well as in creating educational experiences tackling the wave of missinformation and fake news.
Circular Talks
A series of talks with practitioners and advocates from the Creative Sector focusing on environmental and social topics. This edition we will hear their views on Environmental, Social and Financial sustainability for creatives! Confirmed speakers:
Cinergies is a Greek social cooperative founded in 2016 whose purpose is to create and support alternative narratives to foster equitable and sustainable pathways. The cooperative specializes in transmedia documentary production and explores new mediums to cover events and share the important stories of our times integrating audio/video/photography to research and storytelling. As a team it gathers a diverse set of people, whose skills complement one another in order to document and recognize how people actively resist and shape transformational pathways. It aims to concretely enable know-how and capacity-building services to support and further disseminate the achievements of social economy and sustainability initiatives, which often suffer from a lack of visibility. By giving voice to people that are disempowered by mainstream media, the cooperative provides an opportunity for people to become actors – agents– of change rather than merely spectators.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
