The Interreg IVB project ‘Creative City Challenge’ (duration from 01.09.2009 to 30.11.2012) focuses on the promotion of creative sector enterprises in the following areas:
- Music
- Literature
- Art/Art Market
- Theatre
- Dance
- Film
- Broadcasting
- Design (product, fashion, graphic and communication design)
- Architecture
- Public Relations/Media
- Software and Games
The project ‘Creative City Challenge’ analyses challenges and barriers confronting the creative sector in the North Sea Region.
The analysis aims to develop an effective strategy supported by a range of instruments and methods which would help sustainably support the creative industries in the North Sea Region. The goal of the project is to create competitive, innovation-based urban and regional economies in the North Sea Region, in line with the objectives of the EU Lisbon Agenda 2000. ‘Creative City Challenge’ is a transnational collaboration. The project partners come from 10 cities and 6 countries. They comprise representatives of the public services, academic institutions and industry. The collaboration relies on intensive exchanges between the project partners and partner cities as well as stakeholders from all sectors of the creative industry. |
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Creative City Challenge on the road! |
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 Our film team is on it's way. On Sunday, 6th of May 2012, Dialog PR started its trip up North to visit our CCC partners in Gothenburg. This is the first station, where Dialog PR is going to film and interview not only the colleagues from TILLT, but various stakeholders from Creative Industries. The outcome will be a Travelling Exhibition in the best sense of the word: Not only films for each beneficiary and one mash-up will be produced, but the journey to various cities, partners and best practices will be documented in a Road Movie Diary to be seen on You Tube, on a blog and last but not least on facebook.
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President of European Parliament is Patron of the "European Creativity and Innovation Day 2012" |
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The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences is organising the second European Creativity and Innovation Day 2012. The event will be held on 11th May 2012, and consists of a number of seminars, exhibitions, workshops and displaysaround creativity and innovation, to be held across Europe.The European Creativity and Innovation Day 2012 is being organised as an activity of the Interreg IVB (North Sea) Project Creative City Challenge, and involves local authorities, education institutions, economic development agencies andcreativity organisations from across the North Sea region and Europe.
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Expert meeting on 'scene meets science' |
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As part of the partner’s meeting in Bremen, the CCC project hosted an expert meeting on the relations between creative industries and knowledge institutions.
A brief introduction on the basis of a discussion paper gave rise to an inspiring discussion. The experts, Mrs Yvonne Reinhardt from Copenhagen Business School and Prof. Detlef Rahe from the University of Applied Arts in Bremen, discussed with the project partners how cooperation between creative industries and knowledge institutions may be encouraged. Prof. Wil Zonneveld from Delft University of Technology chaired the meeting.
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DANS cluster kick-off conference |
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08 December 2011, Karlstad, Sweden
“Implementing the Digital Agenda in the North Sea Region – good practises, challenges and opportunities”
The aim of the DANS Cluster Kick-off conference is to bring the Digital Agenda for Europe to a more regional level and to show how activities and projects implemented in the frame of the Interreg North Sea Region Programme can contribute to it. Major results as well as some good practices from the Interreg IVB NSR projects “Creative City Challenge”, “Smart Cities” and “E-CLIC” will be presented and will showcase the “northern” way of implementing the Digital Agenda.
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Creative City Challenge has set up a Linkedin and facebook account |
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Join your community and share your ideas about the creativity, innovation and creative entrepreneurs with us!
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Seminar: Creative milieus and open spaces – development of Live-Work-Environments in the North Sea Region |
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14 June 2012, Hamburg, Germany
In August 2009, a number of vacant historical buildings located in the ”Gängeviertel”, an area of approx. 8000m² in the city centre of Hamburg, were squatted by 200 creatives in order to avoid their demolition. An initiative was founded which together with the involved departments of the city successfully developed a concept for the area which combines spaces for housing, work and for the public.
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‘Social Cities’ Conference 2012 |
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24 May 2012, Dundee College, UK
 The "Social Cities" conference will explore the potential of Social Enterprise, Social Media and Crowd Funding – three key areas for developing growth in the creative industries and communities.
Social enterprises take many and varied forms, but they share the common key characteristic of a commitment to strengthening the local community through social aims and provision of local services. Alongside this growth in social responsibility, social media offers important strategic networking and business tools that allow SMEs to compete with more established organisations on a far more equal footing and develop competitive advantages to thrive in these new environments.
Crowd funding is already a proven success in the creative industries, particular the music industry. At its simplest, it involves the funding of creative projects by a number of small donors, usually via the internet.
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CCC Project takes part at the European Innovation Convention |
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 07 December 2011
The Innovation Convention 2011 is over. The project CCC attended the European Innovation Convention, which was held in Brussels on 05 - 06 December 2011. The event was opened by European Commission President José-Manuel Barroso and discussed the elementsneeded to promote research, innovation and creativity in Europe.
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Invitation to the Creative City Challenge Workshop: From Endless Discussions to Efficient Meetings on the 27.05.2011 in Hamburg |
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As a part of the European Creativity and Innovation Day 2011 the HAW-Hamburg is presenting a CCC-workshop ”From Endless Discussions to Efficient Meetings”. It will be a follow up of the successful workshop ”From the Creative Idea to The Strategic Concept” presented last year. Creative entrepreneurs/employees are invited to participate in this event.
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