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Making AI work for Arctic creativity
October 5-22, 2026
AI Creative Catalyst
Making AI work for Arctic Creativity
Open call for all kinds of entrepreneurs and small business based on the ARCTIC region to generate ideas with AI and present their project at the Arctic Summit (October 20-22, 2026). Apply by September 27th 2026!
If you are not from the Arctic but are interested in leveraging AI, you can still join our live masterclasses.
What should AI never be allowed to do in your work?
Who
decides
what
AI is for — and should it be you?
If you could design one rule for how AI works in your field, what would it be?
What does a good human-AI collaboration actually feel like?
What do you want AI to do for your creative work?
That is the question that creative freelancers and entrepreneurs from the Arctic region will be requested to answer at the AI Creative Catalyst incubator.
Apply by September 27th
Anyone based in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Greenland can apply. Specially geared towards creative entrepreneurs, freelancers and small business.
How it works
& Key Dates
How it works
& Key Dates
If you are not based in Arctic, there's still many ways to participate! You can join our live FREE masterclasses, take our course on demand and explore our gallery of video interviews!
FREE MASTERCLASSES
9, 16, 23 September 2026
6 to 7pm EET/ 5 to 6pm CET
Rachid El Guerrab
Former Google Director of Engineering and Emmy-Award Winning/Oscar Nominated Exe Producer
Jacqueline Assar
Product Leader at Upwork (AI GTM & FDE)
Former Magic Leap, Meta and Apple
Michaela A. Ternasky
Peabody Nominated & Emmy Award-Winning Director, Filmmaker
On Demand Course
If you are not based in Arctic, there's still many ways to participate! You can join our live FREE masterclasses, take our course on demand and explore our gallery of video interviews!
Interviews with AI creators
About Us
AI Creativity Catalyst is part of Createch North: AI Leap, an Interreg Aurora-funded cross-border project spanning Finland, Sweden, Greenland and Norway that brings together partners to build AI expertise, connect a cross-border creative community, and create real business opportunities for MSMEs in the creative sector.
Createch North will produce an open-access tool repository, three prototypes, a publicly available masterclass, and documented business cases — with a target of at least 50% of participating MSMEs reporting measurable productivity gains.
The northernmost university of applied sciences in the EU, with deep expertise in Arctic research and applied AI development.
Norway's largest Arctic city, bringing civic infrastructure and regional creative networks to the project's Norwegian strand.
Finland's northernmost university, contributing academic expertise in art, design, and human-centered approaches to technology.
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A long-established hub for technology and creative industries in northern Finland, with a thriving local MSME ecosystem.
A development company driving entrepreneurship and competence-building in Norway's far northeastern corner, rooted in Kirkenes' cross-border community.
A specialist school in VFX for games and film, based in northern Europe's fastest-growing gaming cluster.
Partners
