The Roadmap to Central Finland creative economy 2013+
The Roadmap to Central Finland creative economy 2013+ puts together the common will, recognizes the creative industries actors and outlines each actors’ tasks for future development of creative economy in Central Finland. In our definition creative economy refers to the added value that creative industries’ products, services or skills can yield to other sectors. For instance when a hardware store aims to increase the value of its business by investing in service design, it is taking advantage of the creative economy. The roadmap shows in visual form what is creative economy, what sectors and organizations are involved in and responsible for its development and how they should do it. The roadmap also includes statistical information of creative businesses in...
Responsibility and Innovation Award for Crea.re partner Green Workshop Wendland
Berlin. The Bertelsmann Foundation as one of the most established social and cultural foundations in Germany awarded the Crea.re partner Green Workshop Wendland as an outstanding example for public engagement of regional companies and creatives. The chairwoman of the foundation, Liz Mohn, presented the award at a gala on February 26th in Berlin. More then 130 initiatives from all over Germany had applied in the competition „My good example“. The Green Workshops’ interdisciplinary matching of local companies with young creatives from universities in the metropolitan regions convinced the Jury exspecially with its innovative approach. Thus „the companies commit themselves to their region, where they can achieve a visible change and help locally to strengthen...
From Creative Clash – to Creative Clash Network Europe
The successful Creative Clash Final Conference held 19 March 2013 at the Goethe Institut in Brussels! This conference presented the results of the Creative Clash two-year cooperation project and engage reflection around artistic interventions as a tool for innovation. Discussions with policy makers, politicians and practitioners from a variety of fields took place about how artistic interventions can generate innovation, social innovation and local economy development and analysed how they contribute to a more Creative Europe and enhance cross-sectorial fertilisation. The launch of our new project together with partners from all over Europe engaged in and for artistic interventions - the Creative Clash – European Network for Artistic Interventions. VISIT...
CREARE maintains its European presence up to the very last moment of the project’s lifetime – and hopefully afterwards as well
Although only a few days are left until the official closure of the project, CREA.RE was invited by the representative office of the Region Haute-Normandie to hold a presentation of the project and its achievements during the workshop on the future of the European cultural policy organised on 21 and 22 of March 2013 in Brussels. The CREA.RE presentation is embedded in the workshop session called “From global to local perspectives: the role of European cultural networks and examples of regional projects involving the cultural and creative industries”. Our partner the Province of East Flanders, represented by Mr. Julio Delva, will make the presentation in Brussels on behalf of the whole partnership.
Business concept – how to introduce one’s business ideas in the field of CCIs
Within the Crea.Re project MDA has prepared workshops, where stakeholders from the cultural and creative sectors from the Podravje region were learning how to prepare business plans. The workshops were led by a successful business man, Marko Podjavoršek, who has a lot of experience in the field of marketing and was one of the most active stakeholders in the regional Crea.Re workshops since the beginning of the project. He shared his knowledge on how to prepare good business plans and path the way to make your idea into a model which can be presented to institutions that would financially support the idea (either by loans, donations, or other means of funding). For most participants this was a rather new approach, since they were always primarily concerned with...
Dieter Sauter (County Council President of the District Administration Lüchow-Dannenberg) stated during the CREA.RE Final Conference in Gent on 26 November 2012
The Crea.re network offered a great opportunity for our county to get in contact and to work together with other countryside regions all over Europe. Crea.re gave us a strong i nput and impulse to develop new formats that link local manufacturing with culture and creative industries.Currently we work on the further setup of the platform as a longterm result of Crea.re. We are especially happy about the fact, that on the final conference we could sign several letters of intent concerning further cooperation with our Crea.re network partners. Thus Crea.re means for me an creative European project in the best way one can...
