The COST Arts & Technologies (CAT) workshop assumes that there are large potential gains in integrating arts on the one hand with technologies on the other, to a larger extent than what has been done so far. Combining artistic creativity with technological expertise should in itself have a great potential to lead to new products, services and social innovations.

The workshop aims at enabling innovative integration of arts and multi-, inter-, and transmedia technologies and their actual and potential integration with industries and society as a way of enhancing competitiveness and creativeness of European innovation in arts and technologies. The workshop will deliver initiatives and applications enhancing innovation, welfare and greening of Europe.

CAT will make use of several methods for achieving its aims: gathering top-level international experts presenting current state of the arts and technologies; presentation of new ideas through an open call; interactive sessions and brain-storming.

COST invites researchers to submit papers by 15 September 2013. For more information about the call for papers, please see the International News item on the IFACCA website.