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CREA.RE BEST – OF

kubin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:56:55 +0000

The projects final publication with a collection of the most important public works.

The Roadmap to Central Finland creative economy 2013+

kubin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:34:49 +0000

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 Central Finland. It shows how many companies and other service providers there are in each municipality and which sub-sectors they represent. The statistic data is collected from official statistics of 2010. In Standard Industrial Classification (national version of NACE) creative industries can be found under eight headings. The data has been collected on 5-digit level, and all non-creative businesses have been removed. Finally, the data has been re-classified to match with the commonly accepted definition of creative industries.

The visual design of the roadmap has been produced by using the method of graphic facilitation instead of graphic design. The statistics are visualized by using infographics. The bird, wood grouse, is the emblem of the region. The size of the bird indicates the total amount of creative businesses in a municipality, and different colours of the tail feathers represent various subsectors of creative industries. The locations of the birds indicate the location of each municipality on the map of the region.

For more information please contact Mrs. Raija Partanen at raija.partanen@keskisuomi.fi

Save the date 5 – 8 June 2013 in Linz, Austria

kubin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:17:51 +0000

CREATIVE REGION LINZ & UPPER AUSTRIA Ltd, an important regional partner of the Regional Government Upper Austria in the CREA.RE project, organizes in Linz from 5 to 8 June 2013 a large event focusing on “Identity City Lab _ creating multiple urban identities”

With the Identity City Lab _ creating multiple urban identities the CREATIVE REGION gathers in Linz local and international experts in city planning and development as well as in creative, experimental urbanism.

The lectures serve as an input session for three workshop days with the Madrid Architecture group Ecosistema Urbano focusing on the issues related to the harbour area and bring into local discussions the development of urban strategies. Linz has a multitude of cultural actors (Ars Electronica, Lentos, Tabakfabrik, etc.) – these should be confronted with the theme of participation through permanent/temporary urban interventions and intermediary use and in this way build a bridge to the city development and identity building.

For more information see on www.creativeregion.org or contact Jane Weiss at jane@creativeregion.org

Responsibility and Innovation Award for Crea.re partner Green Workshop Wendland

kubin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:03:59 +0000

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 the social dedication and involvement“ stated Liz Mohn at the ceremony.
With this encouraging support the Green Workshop Wendland now plans the next steps of the project, like an international Innovation Camp in September and various projects on the creation of local and sustainable products in the region.

More information on the award and a videoclip about the project can be found on the website of Bertelsmann Foundation – www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de. Further articles, pictures and documentations on the website of the Green Workshop itself – www.gruene-werkstatt-wendland.de.

From Creative Clash – to Creative Clash Network Europe

kubin — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:01:05 +0000

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 our exhibition on artistic interventions! Contexts from Paris will be showing experiences of artistic interventions in Europe produced by members of Creative Clash at the Goethe Institut from 19 March to 5 April 2013. For more information, have a look at the press release (linked)
Want to know even more?

Watch our video, visit our website www.creativeclash.eu or contact egrafulla@keanet.eu.

To download the document.

CREARE maintains its European presence up to the very last moment of the project’s lifetime – and hopefully afterwards as well

kubin — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:39:27 +0000

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.

Local Support Group (LSG) for creative sectors in Poznań and Wielkopolska region looks back to a successful year 2012

kubin — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:22:28 +0000

In 2012/2013 the Local Support Group for creative sectors, established in the framework of the “CREA.RE” project, intensified its activities. In the first quarter of 2012 the group has been significantly enlarged including representatives of all major institutions in Poznan dealing with the creative sectors.

The LSG gathered different local institutions active in the field: local and regional authorities (Poznan City Hall, Marshall Office of the Wielkopolska Region, Association of Poznań Metropolis, District Councils), universities (Poznan University of Technology, University of Arts in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), institutions of regional importance, NGOs and companies representing the creative sectors („Zamek” Cultural Centre, Pro Design, SPOT. Foundation, Poznań International Fair, Art Stations Foundation).

In the first half of 2012 the group held two general meetings, moderated by an University expert on the creative sectors, prof. T. Stryjakiewicz. The most important topics approached during the discussions were:

analysing the diagnosis of the specific situation of the various sub-sectors of the CCI in Poznan and Wielkopolska Region, based on the research carried out by university experts;
discussing possible actions that could be undertaken to support the creative sectors and the inclusion of these propositions in a Local Action Plan;
networking and defining possible cooperation opportunities between local and regional actors in the framework of the Local Support Group.

In the second quarter of 2012 the group worked in parallel in smaller working teams assigned to specific topics, that were defined as crucial from the perspective of the group:

group on information and promotion activities for the creative sectors
group on activities in creative public space
group on research and monitoring of the creative sectors

Subsequently, the work continued in the form of a series of six workshops for the Local Support Group members. The participants worked on ideas pointed out in the Local Action Plan and developed propositions for four projects with detailed conceptions, including goals and problem description, proposition of concrete actions, division of tasks between interested institutions etc. The workshops were moderated and summarized by a professional project trainer. Approximately 60 participants attended the workshops over six days.
The projects developed during the workshops:

Educational activities in the field of public space
Artistic Residencies Programme for „Zamek” Cultural Centre
Developing an information and promotion platform for the cultural sector
Designing public space with elements of small architecture

The results of the work of the Local Support Group, meetings, working groups and workshops, were incorporated into Local Action Plan for creative sectors in the Poznan and Wielkopolska region. The plan is now in the process of being published and will be ready in paper and electronic version by the end of March 2013. Also in March the group will meet for the “summary event” concluding its works in the framework of CREA.RE project.

The LSG participants were content with the way of cooperation – positive opinions concerned especially workshops. It was innovative and effective to gather people from diverse institutions to get to know each other and work on common problems perceived from different perspectives. It is important to emphasise that the Local Support Group will carry on its functioning beyond the CREA.RE project, mainly within the thematic groups that will continue working on common projects.

CREA.RE poster exhibition Gent

kubin — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:39:19 +0000

Poster exhibition in course of the Interreg4c-project CREA.RE.

Business concept – how to introduce one’s business ideas in the field of CCIs

kubin — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:10:17 +0000

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 their creative and/or cultural production, not realizing all the potentials it has for marketing and above all not thinking within the framework of the bureaucracy, investor, or other financial supporters, but only in terms of the product they are offering and which they hope the general public will accept and like in such an amount it would allow them to develop a business around it. And that’s exactly what the creative sector said it needed!

INTERACCIÓ 2012 – 2013

kubin — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:44:11 +0000

Interacció is a biennial meeting point for professionals in the field of culture, heads of cultural departments at public administrations and cultural agents, being a reference for discussion and reflection. Interacció brings together politicians, managers, artists, thinkers and researchers from both public private sector, as well as associations. The initiative has a long history dating back to 1984.
This year, Interacció is focusing its reflection on the public value of culture and the tools to manage it.
The new edition includes an Online Platform that provides content to the different workspaces as well as facilitates their communication. This online tool is filled in with reflection issues, best practice presentations, working groups and debates addressed to the creative and cultural agents. Two CREA.RE good practices have been already presented in the platform.

In addition, Interacció has launched a call for proposals with the aim of giving maximum visibility to local cultural organizations around the world, hosting the presentation of projects for both public and private sectors, related to any of the fields and issues proposed.
Three calls for proposals have been launched:

Presentations in person, during May 2013 event at CERC
Participation at Project Fair that will take place during May 2013 event at CERC.
Video presentations to be published on Interacció’s Online Platform.

Finally, in May 2013, cultural community will be called to meet in Barcelona, at Centre d’Estudis i Recursos Culturals (CERC), in a “traditional face to face” event.