ECOCRIN project addresses the needs of the creative ecosystem for achieving sustainable futures. For an effective design of synergetic policies and innovations, it is crucial to understand the reality of creative individuals, companies and ecosystems (Midgley & Lindhult, 2017; O’Connor, 2010). These bottom-up needs and futures skills of creative ecosystem were examined and co-created by organizing three Heritage Futures Workshops (Siivonen et al. 2022; Siivonen 2022) and conducting 26 complementary interviews with individuals and companies across different cultural and creative sectors. We collected data via these two methods from three empirical case study areas in Finland: Kuhmo, Pori and Turku-Paimio. The three locations form a coherent whole and allow us to draw inferences about the creative ecosystems. Participants represented a wide array of creative sectors, including e.g., wood construction, literature, stories and games, visual arts, crafts, arts and crafts, design and the circular economy, music and dance. Each Heritage Futures Workshop had 20-30 participants with different competences. In each workshop, participants co-imagined different images of futures, and co-created futures skills needed today to get to desirable futures of ecosystems.