Innovation Festival Finale in Milan brings the question “What IF we discussed the future of creative industries?” into focus. In combined efforts IF Finale on February 27 and 28 presents the unique IF experiences of six cities across Europe: Barcelona, Milan, Kortrijk, Lisbon, Vilnius and Tallinn. On two days keynote speeches, roundtables, panels and discussions with high ranking and influential politicians, representatives and experts will lead to create a practical vision of an European Creative Industries Alliance (ECIA).

We asked the experts beforehand. Thus having a small series of interviews in profoundly introducing IF´s urgent agenda. The Austrian manager and expert Lucia Seel kindly provides the opening interview. She is Project Manager with CREA.RE creative regions INTERREG IVC on behalf of the Regional Government Authority Upper Austria Department of Cultural Affairs and Expert member of the European Forum for Clusters in Emerging Industries.

 

The interview is available under http://www.2010lab.tv/en/blog/innovation-festival-milano

The KNOW HOW conference brings you new insights on finance, innovation, creativity and collaboration within creative industries across Europe. Various industry experts and policy makers - such as Michael Thomson, Jurriaan van Rijswijk, Jenny Tooth and Sylvain Pasqua - are willing to share their knowledge and interact with you. Make sure you don't miss this entirely online conference!

 

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On 23 November the European Commission's proposal for the Creative Europe Programme (future funding schemes for the cultural and audiovisual sectors) was made public and sent to the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament who will now begin discussions and negotiations on it with a view to adopting the proposal in 2012-2013.

 

The Commission would like to offer this opportunity to European networks representing Europe's cultural and creative sectors to attend an information session on the programme which will be taking place on 30 January 2012, from 2 p.m. in the auditorium of Tour Madou, Madouplein 1, St. Joost ten Noode, Brussels.

You can register for this session by sending an email to: EAC-UNITE-D2@ec.europa.eu.

 

For more information and agenda of the information session see http://ec.europa.eu/culture/news/20120106-programme_en.htm

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Take part in the Interclustering labs on Creatives Industries: meet complementary clusters and benefit from our unique expertise to build an intercluster that will enable you to access to new competences and get a stronger position on this promising market.

 

An intercluster is a consortium of clusters from different European countries and who complement one another in the value chain, have a common strategy and shared tools, with the goal to become a leader in a high value-added market

 

The Creative Industries market encompasses a broad range of activities which refers to the following areas : ICT, media, communication, new materials, education, cinema, serious games, architecture, design, etc. There are many possible combinations.

The InterClustering labs will provide you with a methodology to go through the process of building this Creatives Industries intercluster: from defining your strategic position on the market to the design of a transnational value-chain, based on your strategy as well as the one of your new partners. 

 

2 - 3 February 2011, Brussels

 

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