Minister officially inaugurates Mozambique’s first Cultural and Creative Business Incubator

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Minister officially inaugurates Mozambique’s first Cultural and Creative Business Incubator

1:42 CAT | 11 Jul 2022

Photo. X-Hub on Facebook

Minister of Culture and Tourism, Eldevina Materula, on Thursday (07-07) inaugurated the ‘X-Hub’, the country’s first cultural and creative business incubator.

The X-Hub project aims to encourage professionalism in the cultural and creative sector by providing a platform for the development of skills, transfer of knowledge and technologies, for the connection of consumers, providers and investors in the creative economy, as well as for the creation of national and international markets.

The minister said that initiatives such as the X-Hub Creative Business Incubator are and will always be cherished by the government, because arts and culture produce wealth and generate jobs, their resources being practically inexhaustible.

Paulo Chibanga, founder of X-Hub, said that all social sectors valued creativity, hence the establishment of this initiative in response to collective adversity, in a way that had the potential to assert itself, but which must first be professionalized.

X-Hub is a project conceived by Khuzula Investimentos, represented by Paulo Chibanga, financed by the Sound Connects Fund, the Music in Africa Foundation (MIAF) and the Goethe Institute. The European Union provided €180,000 funding for the project.

Also present at the opening ceremony were EU Ambassador Antonio Sánchez-Benedito Gaspar, the Maputo Councillor for Culture and Tourism Isabel Macie, among other guests and friends linked to the creative sector.

Source: Ministério da Cultura e Turismo / Press Release