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.

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.

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.

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.

24 September 2011, Hamburg, Germany

Bremen and Groningen had a great afternoon at the Reeperbahn Festival. Promoting CCC with a Reception and 2 showcases at Glanz & Gloria Club: Eisenhower from Groningen and kleinstadthelden from Bremen rocked the house!

HAW Hamburg recently launched the study "Business Improvement Districts: an instrument to foster creative industries? Experiences and lessons learned from Hamburg" which describes some Hamburg specific tools and instruments in order to enhance the development of the creative sector in the City.

The new Creative City Challenge Newsletter (4th Edition) has been produced and can be downloaded as PDF file in the newsletter section.

 CCC 4th newsletter 2011 / 01 (English) (795 kB)

The Creative Boost Summer School has been developed by Dundee College as part of its involvement in the Interreg funded Creative City Challenge project. The key aims of this project are to identify, develop and test a range of strategies to develop the urban economies in the North Sea Region and focuses on the role of the creative industries in building and strengthening this development.

Last year an international panel of experts granted the BEST COLLABORATION AWARD for the first time. The first BCA 20110 was designed to reward the best example of collaboration between partners from the creative industries sector and another from a more traditional industry focussing on innovative practices beyond traditional business relationships as well as alliances with exceptional results.

CCC has released an new discussion paper issuing the impact of sustainable innovation and sustainable urban development on the performance of creative industries. The authors are Arie Romein & Jan Jacob Trip  from the Delft University of Technology.