The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Edelvina Materula, inaugurated on 7 July the X-Hub, the first cultural and creative business incubator in Mozambique. The project aims fundamentally to contribute to professionalisation in the cultural and creative sector through a platform for skills development and the transfer of knowledge and technology, as well as for connecting consumers, providers and investors across the creative economy and creating national and international markets.
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Edelvina Materula, inaugurated on 7 July the X-Hub, the first cultural and creative business incubator in Mozambique
X-Hub will offer co-working spaces, digital marketing services, music and video production, recording studio facilities, event space, mentoring for developing cultural and creative businesses, mediation for access to national and international markets, training programmes for cultural and creative managers, cultural and creative consultancy, among other possibilities.
X-Hub is a project funded by the Sound Connects Fund, an initiative of the Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) and the Goethe-Institut. The Sound Connects Fund is made possible with funding from the ACP-EU Culture Programme, a project implemented by the Secretariat of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) and funded by the European Union (EU). The Fund is also co-funded by the Goethe-Institut and the Siemens Stiftung, and has CIN paints as a project partner.
