Development and Promotion of Creative Industry Potentials in Central European Cities; European Territorial Cooperation Objective, CENTRAL EUROPE Programme

 

SHORT SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

CREATIVE CITIES' objective is to exploit creative industry potentials for more competitive and attractive cities.

Five Central European cities (Gdansk, Genoa, Leipzig, Ljubljana, Pecs) joined to:

• improve framework conditions and to initialise creative industry clusters,
•  promote entrepreneurial skills and competitiveness of creative industries,
• improve creative industry external visibility through transnational marketing and networking,
• exploit potentials in the development of decayed urban areas through the allocation of creative industries in those city districts.

Furthermore, all project partners will provide valuable input to policy debates (anticipated Green Paper on Cultural and Creative Industries) and recommendations for other cities aiming to promote their creative industry potentials. Besides, transnational cooperation between five comparable Central European cities and close cooperation with EUROCITIES will be also important.

The project will be promoted by five cities - public authorities, which have the political competences to integrate project results into local plans and strategies.

Main project activities  are:

• Establishment, institutionalisation and transnational networking of creative industry clusters
• Elaboration and testing of transnational cluster marketing tools
• Promotion of creative clusters’ competitiveness based on European good practices
• Elaboration of recommendations for other cities (close cooperation with EUROCITIES)
• Contributions to policy debates (anticipated Green Paper on Cultural and Creative Industries)

EXPECTED PROJECT RESULTS

Project results:

• Contribution to Green Paper on Cultural and Creative Industries
• Institutionalised clusters of creative industries and durable transnational networks
• Joint Action Plan for promotion of creative industries
• Qualified cluster contact points
• Tested and endorsed cluster marketing programmes
• Transnational study on urban location factors of creative industry enterprises
• Recommendations for other cities on “creative” district development (EUROCITIES)
•  Wide dissemination and communication
• 5 major conferences embedded in European initiatives such as the Capital of Culture (Pecs in 2010) and the Polish European Council Presidency in 2011

SLOVENE PROJECT PARTNERS

Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region (RDA LUR)

Institute for Economic Research (IER)

PARTNERSHIP

LP - City of Leipzig, Germany (co-ordinator)

PP2 – Aufbauwerk Region Leipzig, Germany

PP3 – Gdansk Entrepreneurship Foundation, Poland

PP4 – IER, Slovenia

PP5 –Municipality of Genoa – Culture Department, Italy

PP6 – RDA LUR, Slovenia

PP7 – City Hall of Gdansk, Poland

PP8 – Job Centre, Italy

PP9 – City of Pecs, Hungary

PP10 – Cultural Innovation Competency Centre Association, Hungary

PP11 - German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development, Germany

PROJECT BUDGET

Total eligible project budget:    2.555.268 EUR

Project budget for RDA LUR: 289.137 EUR,

Of which:

• 85% co-financed by EU/ERDF - 245.766,45 EUR
• 15% co-financed by RDA LUR -   43.370,55 EUR

PROJECT DURATION

1 January 2010 – 31 December 2012

PROJECT MANAGER

Nataša Mršol (natasa.mrsol(at)ljubljana.si)