Thessaloniki Design Week has been established as an institution for the city, giving the chance of expression, reflection and synergies in all areas and aspects of creativity. It constitutes a space of opportunities and extroversion for the entrepreneurship of the city in many ways. Multiple benefits are gained more widely in various areas, such as tourism and culture, from an event whose internationalization may generate high attendance.

Thessaloniki Design Week’s core objectives , through a series of events are:

to highlight the significant potential of the city and country on all aspects of design,
to reinforce and introduce new process models for the creation and design of products and services,
to develop research, concerns, dynamics and quests for all applications that entail design,
to create opportunities and prospects for linking creativity to entrepreneurship, production process, the domestic and international market, and give new alternatives to the creators under the current circumstances.