No.8/June 2019

e-Newsletter

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CREADIS3 STUDY VISITS

Fifth study visit to Western Greece on 11-12 April 2019

1st study visit day

2nd study visit day

CREADIS3 PROJECT MEETINGS & EVENTS

CREADIS3 meetings

CREADIS3 in the thematic workshop on “The transforming power of cultural and creative industries” , 4th June in Riga

CREADIS3 presentation within the framework of Interreg Europe Green Screen project: circular economy in audiovisual?

2nd workshop on Action Plan organized in Central Finland

CREADIS3 presentation at Institute of Public Policy on Comenius University in Bratislava

CREADIS3 Basque stakeholder EIKEN participated in the workshop “Europe’s content industries: New opportunities for storytelling, funding and technology”

CREADIS3 stakeholder meetings

5th stakeholder meeting took place in Slovakia

6th stakeholder meeting on 6th May in Bratislava

CREADIS3 UPCOMING EVENTS

RICC Conference “Orange economy shades: regional ecosystems and

strategies - Innovation and sustainability models of CCIs in Europe”,

Brussels 24th June

Sixth study visit to Emilia-Romagna on 26-28 June 2019

Basque Country’s 5th stakeholder meeting will take place next 20th June

in Bilbao

SUMMARY

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CREADIS3 STUDY VISITS

Fifth study visit to to Western Greece on 11-12 April 2019

CREADIS3 5th study visit took place in Western Greece from 11 to 12 April 2019. Based on a 2-

days programme, it was focused on the topic: Culture and Innovation in CCIs ecosystems:

mobilising local resources.

It was combined with the start of the 6th Technology

Transfer Exhibition -Patras Innovation Quest (Patras

IQ) in Patras. This international exhibition was held on 12-14

April 2019 and co-organized by the Ministry of Education,

Research & Religious Affairs, the Ministry of Economy and

Development, the University of Patras, the Chamber of Commerce of Achaia, the Region of

Western Greece, the Hellenic Open University and the Technological Educational Institute of

Western Greece. Its main objective is to create a critical competitive advantage both in the

research community and in the productive sector through a continuous effort to solve problems

and apply innovative ideas for the development of new and optimization of existing products and

services, aspiring to take part in the national and global markets.

Moreover, PATRAS IQ is one of the CREADIS3 Project’s Good Practices distinguished by

Interreg Europe Policy Learning Experts.

General introduction on Western Greece

The Region of Western Greece includes three regional units (NUTS3): Aitoloakarnania (EL631),

Achaia (EL632) and Helia (EL633). Consists of 19 municipalities and the number of inhabitants is

679.796 according to the 2011 census (the 6,28% of the population of Greece), with a population

density of 60 inhabitants/km2. The surface covers 11.350 km² (the 8,6% of the surface of

Greece).

In the strategic priorities of RIS3 are including the Cultural Creative Industries (CCIs) as “smart

specialization districts”. With appropriate adjustments, they can be the driving force of Western

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Greece's economy, constituting actions with great implementation opportunities that enable the

development of specialized activities.

Restructuring and modernization of these dynamic economic

activities of the Region of Western Greece (RWG), as well as the

transformation of creativity through the exploitation of innovation

and knowledge, can bring greater added value, posing a

significant challenge to the achievement of the objective of smart

specialization in RWG. Strengthening entrepreneurship by

developing new creative standards in the cultural industries by

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), enhancing their

outward-looking entrepreneurship and internationalization, and

supporting the systematic promotion of the Culture and Creativity Sector is one of the priority axes

of the Region of Western Greece.

Day 1 – 11th April

The 1st day took place in Ancient Olympia, the Olympic Games’

birthplace and at the International Olympic Academy venue

http://ioa.org.gr/.

There, the study visit began with the Steering Committee meeting

and an Internal session only for CREADIS3 Partners in which they

discussed about the development of the Action Plans.

At the same time a Stakeholder meeting only for CREADIS3 stakeholders was carried out. This

thematic session was devoted to Exploring the cultural artistic potential in CCI

ecosystems, Implications for internationalization.

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Afterwards, the stakeholder meeting conclusions, in which both CREADIS3 Partners and

Stakeholders participated, took place.

Between others, the project partners’ stakeholders had the potentiality to interact with each other

and exchange their experiences, according to their specializations.

Later on a presentation by the International Olympic Academy organization representative

and a presentation of the good practice Olympia International Film Festival for children

and young people followed.

After lunch, a guided tour at the Museum and the Archaeological site of Ancient Olympia

took place.

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During the afternoon Mr. Vasilis Papalyberis, Head of the

Organizing Committee and President of the Hellenic Cultural and

Educational Club for UNESCO, presented the Annual World

Cultural Heritage Youth Symposium

https://olympiayouthsymposium.com/.

Afterwards, the two, paired project partners Emilia-Romagna Region and the Regional

Development Fund of the Region of Western Greece, led two workshops, where CREADIS3

Partners as well as the stakeholders participated.

The workshop led by Emilia-Romagna was named Creative economy and local branding

(subtheme: Support international territorial attractiveness to increase investment in the creative

potential of the region and retain talents/creative entrepreneurs) and the one led by Western

Greece Social and economic aspects of creative sector. New business models (subtheme:

Support the internationalization of SMEs through new business models).

At the end of the two workshops conclusions were presented by the participants.

To end the first study visit day a dinner in Patras was organized by the Hosting Partner.

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Day 2 – 12th April

During the 2nd day, the participants had the opportunity to visit

some main organizations of CCI’s sectors and Innovation HUB, in the

Patras area. As this was the “opening” day of the 6th Technology

Transfer Exhibition - Patras Innovation Quest (Patras IQ), the

consortium could play a role as being a part of it! An interactivity

session took place during the afternoon, in the thematic axe:

Creative Ecosystems in Europe. Insights and Reflections.

After concluding the CREADIS3 operations, the participants had the

opportunity browsing the exhibition.

The 2nd day visit started at the Patras Science Park https://www.psp.org.gr/, where Professor V.

Anastasopoulos presented the Introduction in the innovation ecosystem of Western

Greece. Presentation of hubs and SMEs to the Partners. They also had the opportunity to

Know the Clean Tech Energy Hub and the Blue Innovation Hub.

Right after visiting the Patras Science Park, the delegation was carried to the Archeological

Museum of Patras http://www.ampatron.gr/.

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There they knew more about the published good practice in the Interreg Europe Policy Learning

Platform: Building a new relationship with the children's audience. "Building" the

visitors of the future.

Continuing with another good practice, the participants were guided to a tour to the Patras

Carnival Lab https://www.carnivalpatras.gr/carnival-workshop/

The Patras Carnival is a space of carnival & artistic creativity with pioneer & innovative character.

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During the afternoonn, before visiting the 6th Technology Transfer Exhibition - Patras

Innovation Quest (Patras IQ) , a guided tour to the Apollon Theather – Patras Municipal

Theater was carried out.

Finally, an open session at Patras IQ was organized: “Creative ecosystems in Europe.

Insights and reflections”, starting with Mr. Apostolos Katsifaras’ welcoming, President of

Regional Development Fund and Regional Governor of the Region of Western Greece, and Prof.

Demostenes Polyzos, Vice Rector of Research and Development – University of Patras, President

of the Organization Committee of Patras IQ.

Then, Mr. Spyros Papaspyrou, CREADIS3 Western Greece Partner representative, explained The

creative ecosystem in Western Greece. Afterwards, Basque Country’s stakeholders’

representatives, Mr. Rubén Otero, Director of eServices Area, Tecnalia Research & Innovation

and Mr. Mikel Zorrilla, Head of Digital Media, Vicomtech, presented “KSI Berritzaile:

Technology Transfer to the CCI’s sectors. The Basque experience”.

Also Prof. Flaviano Celaschi, President of the Emilia-Romagna regional cluster on Cultural

and Creative Industries and Mrs. Elena Vai, Creative Director Bologna Design Week

presented the Creative ecosystem in Emilia-Romagna Region.

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After listening to Mr. Theodoros Tsoumpelis, Achaia Chamber of Commerce General Secretary,

Prof. Vasilis Avdikos, Regional Development Institute – Panteion University of Athens and Mr.

Andreas Tsiliras, Cultural Manager, Co-founder of Mosaic, the participants had the opportunity to

walk aolong the Patras IQ exhibition.

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CREADIS3 PROJECT MEETINGS & EVENTS

CREADIS3 MEETINGS

CREADIS3 in the thematic workshop on “The transforming power of

cultural and creative industries”, 4th June in Riga

On 4th June CREADIS3 took part in the Thematic Workshop on The transforming power of

cultural and creative industries, organized by the Interreg Europe Policy Learning Platform in

Riga.

There, Josean Urdangarin, representing the CREADIS3 project Leader, the Basque Country, had

the opportunity to discuss and exchange knowledge concerning CCIs related issues, such as their

impact on social, democratic and cultural wealth as well as on the industrial and economic fields.

Also other assets were discussed, e.g. unlocking CCIs potential and increasing their collaboration

with other sectors of the economy to become a factor of competitiveness for the European

economy.

The CREADIS3 had the opportunity to bring its knowledge and contributions to a small-scale and

highly focused workshop, meeting other Interreg Europe projects (CRE:HUB, RCIA…) with

experience in unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) and to discover the

Latvian know-how in the field by attending a site visit to the Creative industries incubator.

More information on: https://www.interregeurope.eu/culturalandcreativeindustries/

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CREADIS3 presentation within the framework of Interreg Europe Green Screen project: circular economy in audiovisual?

The Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic was invited by the Slovak Film Commission to

present CREADIS3 projects and its positive impacts on cultural and creative industry ecosystem in

Slovakia.

The presentation took place on 29th April 2019 during the 2nd panel of lectures organized within

another Interreg Europe project called Green Screen. In the beginning the focus was mainly put

on aims and outcomes of CREADIS3 project. After that the audience had also the opportunity to

learn more about good practices identified within CREADIS3 and about different ways of sharing

ideas and experience between its project partners, that will be an important source for creating

more efficient CCI policies in their territories.

The majority of the audience was mainly represented by film professionals, as the Green Screen

project addresses the issue of sustainable development of the audiovisual sector and aims to

reduce the carbon footprint of European film and television production.

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2nd workshop on Action Plan organized in Central Finland

Branding the food is the theme for Central

Finland Action Plan

Central Finland CREADIS3 Action Plan was one

of the topics in a seminar arranged by JAMK

University of Applied Sciences on 5th March

2019 in rural environment, at an old farmhouse

some 30 km from Jyväskylä. The seminar had

four themes, one of which was tailored for

CREADIS3 action plan development, with a

theme ”Dreaming of a fabulous culinary

region”. The world café style workshop was led

by CREADIS3 project manager of Regional

Council of Central Finland, and the results of the workshop will form essential part of the action

plan.

Participants of the workshop came from the host organisation, Regional Council of Central Finland,

Central Finland Centre for Economic Development, Transport and Environment and from local

businesses.

CREADIS3 presentation at Institute of Public Policy on Comenius

University in Bratislava

On 2nd May the CREADIS3 project was presented to students of the Institute of Public Policy on

Comenius University in Bratislava.

The aim of the lecture was to provide students with basic overview of European Structural Funds

and their programmess. In particular, the Interreg Europe programme was presented as a

programme to assist regional and local governments across Europe to develop and deliver better

policies.

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Under this program, as a case study, the CREADIS3 project was presented. The presentation

mainly focused on project contribution to the development of public policies to support the cultural

and creative industries in the Slovak Republic with a particular focus on the process of preparing a

new Action plan for the development of CCIs.

CREADIS3 Basque stakeholder EIKEN participated in the workshop

“Europe’s content industries: New opportunities for storytelling,

funding and technology”

Last 11th April a workshop, supported by the

European Commission, was organized at the

Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU in

Brussels.

The Basque Delegate in Brussels, Marta Marín, put

the focus on CREADIS3 project and the regional

dimension of CCIs. Basque stakeholder EIKEN’s

President, Aletxu Echevarria, also took part in the

roundtable.

The event focused on Europe’s content

industries: New opportunities for

storytelling, funding and technology. This roundtable was intended to open a cross-sectoral,

pan-European discussion on how the European programmes might develop during the 2020s, and

how these inter-related industries could best prosper in global and European markets. The

dialogue brought together leaders in video and film production, augmented and virtual reality,

innovative finance, technology platforms, and in European and member state policy making. The

half-day workshop counted also with the presence of representatives of the European Institutions,

which will be directly involved in the decision-making process relating to the European

programmes and budgets, as well as with representatives of the Cultural and Creative sector.

More information on: https://sciencebusiness.net/events/europes-content-industries-new-opportunities-

storytelling-funding-and-technology

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CREADIS3 STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS

5th stakeholder meeting took place in Slovakia

Local stakeholders of Slovakia met on 4th April 2019 in Slovakia.

The meeting started with the Introduction to the preparation of the Action Plan of CCIs

Development (CREADIS3 project, methodolody

and action lines of action plan). Based on the

CREADIS3 methodology, the Action Plan will have

a maximum of 12 actions. The Action Plan will be

set up for 2020-2021. Action Plan as the main

output of the project will provide information on

how the experience gained from project

cooperation will be implemented in order to

improve the policy instrument addressed in the

region. Specifically, it will determine the nature of

the activities to be implemented, their timeframe,

participants, costs and sources of funding.

It will contain the following lines of action:

1) Improve the quality of interventions in

relation to cultural and creative industries at

national level

2) Supporting the development of regional

policies in the cultural and creative industries

3) Creating a new Strategy of Development in

Cultural and Creative Industries

Later on, the Action Line no. 1: Improve the

quality of interventions in relation to cultural and

creative industries at national level at national level was presented in detail:

Brief information about the initial situation and problem areas defined within this action line:

CREADIS3 commitment to improve the policy instrument identified (IROP PO3)

Conclusions of the Evaluation of the 2015-2017 Action Plan: Several tasks related to CCI

support from ESIF funds were not fulfilled in the AP deduction.

The issue of CCI is currently within the competence of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak

Republic and the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, but there is no stable form of

cooperation that would provide space for mutual information exchange and synergy of

planned interventions.

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Insufficient co-operation and communication between public authorities and the private

sector in the field of CCI considering the development of support measures for CCIs.

Based on defined issues, the following actions have been suggested:

Interim evaluation of ESIF 2014-2020 instruments supporting CCIs

Objective: identification of problem areas related to process of setting and implementation

of ESIF instruments and giving recommendations and proposals for better addressing of

needs that are reflected through ESIF programs in order to more effectively implement

programs aimed at supporting CCI in the next programming period.

Creating a platform for CCIs

Objective: Create an effective communication platform between the public and private

sectors in the cultural and creative industries.

Finally, discussion about the suggested action lines between stakeholders followed.

6th stakeholder meeting on 6th May in Bratislava

The last stakeholder meeting took place on 6th May in

Bratislava, Slovakia. Recognizing the importance of

cooperation between public administrations and its key

actors in the development of cultural and creative

industries in the regions, representatives of regional and

local authorities were invited to this stakeholder meeting as

experts to develop a common debate on this issue.

After a brief introduction to the preparation of the Action

Plan of CCIs Development (CREADIS3 project,

methodolody and action lines of action plan), a fully

detailed presentation on Action Line no. 2: Supporting the development of regional

policies in the cultural and creative industries, was carried out.

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Brief information about the initial situation and problem areas defined within this action line:

CREADIS3 commitment to improve the policy instrument identified (IROP PO3)

the absence of strategic documents at the regional and local level supporting the cultural

and creative industries in their area

lack of awareness of cultural and creative industries and its positive contribution to local

and regional development

the need for a deeper mapping of the regional creative ecosystem (its resources, needs and

actors) as a basis for the effective setting of strategic goals

insufficient exchange of information and experience between regional and local authorities

in support of cultural and creative industries

Afterwards, a presentation of the current state of the Strategy for the Development of Local and

Regional Culture and Culture of National Minorities took place. Also a presentation of good practice

– KOŠICE city and Creative Industry Košice, n. o. (CIKE) /as a inspiration for other reagions and

cities/ followed.

Later on, a discussion about possible action for the action lines between stakeholders followed.

Another part of the program was a discussion at individual tables (about 8 participants at one

table) on the creation of regional / local strategic documents aimed at supporting CCIs at regional

and local level.

Participants based on the current situation in the given region / city concerning the existence /

absence of this type of strategic document discussed the facts that either led to its creation or, on

the contrary, the absence, what were the benefits / negatives in the process of its creation as well

as the benefits / negatives associated with its implementation, or what is the potential for creating

this type of document in their region / city and what kind of actions would help to create it. Last

but not least, they also suggested some specific actions that should be considered within the

proposed action line to support the development of regional policies in the cultural and creative

industries.

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The main outputs were subsequently presented and became important bases for proposals within

the framework of the action line no. 2.

Finally, a brief information about actions that have been suggested by Ministry:

Creation of a methodology aimed at effective making of regional / local policies in the area

of CCI support.

Objective: Support the creation of specifically focused strategic documents creating

favorable conditions for the development of CCIs in a given region / city for the purpose of

its sustainable development.

Specific workshops in in regionsaiming to raise awareness about CCI contibution to regional

and local development.

Objective: To raise awareness of the importance of CCIs for regional and local development

and to present the methodology developed for the creation of regional / local policies in CCI

support.

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CREADIS3 UPCOMING EVENTS

Sixth study visit to Emilia-Romagna on 26-28 June 2019

The last CREADIS3 study visit will take place in Emilia-Romagna from 26 to 28 June and the

specific thematic will be CREATIVITY AND INDUSTRY - How cultural and creative

industries contribute to the competitiveness of the whole ecosystem, including

manufacturing firms and clusters.

Under the thematic axis: Improving Institutional Governance, sub-theme of the study visit will

be Support international territorial attractiveness to increase investment in the

creative potential of the region and retain talents/creative entrepreneurs

The CREADIS3 Partners and the stakeholders taking part in the study visit,

will be able to know different good practices, such as Support for the

development of infrastructures for the competitiveness of the

territory - a public call aimed at the development of infrastructures for the

competitiveness and the strengthening of co-working structures supporting

entrepreneurial promotion, with a focus on CCIs (recovery of spaces and

consulting/training activities), EmiliaRomagnaStartup/CREATIVE and

the INCREDIBOL! Project.

Read more on the good practices:

www.emiliaromagnastartup.it/it/creative

www.incredibol.net/en/

Basque Country’s 5th stakeholder meeting will take place next 20th

June in Bilbao

The 5th stakeholder meeting,organized by the Basque Country Partner, will take place next 20th

June in Bilbao. It is foreseen that also the RIS3 CCIs Pilot Group of Euskadi will participate at the

meeting.

RICC Conference “Orange economy shades: regional ecosystems and

strategies -Innovation and sustainability models of CCIs in Europe”,

Brussels 24th June

In close cooperation with the European Commission and European networks, and in association

with CREADIS3 project, the Regional Initiative for Culture and Creativity Network (RICC)

is organizing next 24th June the conference “Orange economy shades: regional ecosystems

and strategies -Innovation and sustainability models of CCIs in Europe”.

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