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Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas Final Conference | CREATIVE FOOTPRINT - The next big step will be a lot of small steps | Óbidos (PT), Jun. 9, 2011
Download Programme2010 Working Calendar - More than 60 initiatives in 2010
2009 Working Calendar
18 November 2011 Final Report by the Lead Expert, Miguel Rivas
From creative industries to the creative place
Refreshing the local development agenda in small and medium-sized towns
07 September 2011 Reporting Note: Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas Final Conference, Óbidos (PT), 9 June 2011
A report by Miguel Rivas, URBACT lead expert for Creative Clusters, and Catarina Selada, head of policy and research at INTELI Intelligence in Innovation.
29 August 2011 Newsletter & Brochure
Download our brochure and have a look at the project newsletter
29 August 2011 "The Creative Brief" Compendium 2009-2011
15 April 2011 City case study: Barnsley - Re-making the Northern England Midsized Town
This article focuses on the experience of Barnsley, a medium-sized town in Northern England and a member of the URBACT network on Creative Clusters. Barnsley offers an interesting case of combined economic restructuring and urban regeneration, in which creative industries are being targeted as a potential driver for change.
25 February 2011 Creative Clusters fourth thematic workshop - Barnsley
The fourth and last thematic workshop of the URBACT network on Creative Clusters will be devoted to discussing events and cultural agenda as catalysts in promoting creative-based strategies in local development.
Read more11 February 2011 From Creative Industries to the Creative Place: Refreshing the Local Development Agenda in Small and Medium-sized Towns
An article by Creative Clusters lead expert that draws attention to the potential role of creative industries in building the new post-crisis economic landscape, and how this is promoting a re-view of local development strategies in most innovative cities. The best summary to the on-going URBACT Creative Clusters project.
26 November 2010 Attracting and retaining creative talent in medium-sized towns. The strategy in Barnsley, UK
Attracting and retaining creative talent in Barnsley is set against a backdrop of a deprived post-mining economy, with a small but emerging creative sector. Located inside the triangle Manchester-Sheffield-Leeds, in Northern England, regeneration investment in Barnsley has provided key venues for culture and creative industries locally but these have struggled to attract occupants and audiences and there is a clear need for more focused activity, building on from a current mapping exercise and strengthening this emergent economic sector by understanding its needs and the challenges it faces.
Read more04 November 2010 The «Arcos» School Complex in Óbidos (PT) is considered - by Centre for Learning Environments of OECD - a model school in the world
The «Arcos» School Complex, in Óbidos, was considered, in Paris, (November, 4th) as an exemplary school by the Centre for Effective Learning Environments – CELE), structure of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).
Read more15 October 2010 Green Paper on Cultural & Creative Industries: a lost opportunity?
The public consultation period about the Green Paper on Cultural & Creative Industries [“Unlocking the Potential of Cultural and Creative Industries”] made by DG Education and Culture was over last Summer. It is clear that Paper comes a bit late, when many EU cities and regions are displaying strategic visions and specific agendas in promoting creative industries, especially in UK, Portugal, Nordic Countries and in Central Europe.
Read more14 October 2010 4th Thematic Workshop - Promoting the Creative Ecosystem: New City Strategies in Big Events and Cultural Agenda | Barnsley, Mar. 17-18, 2011
The forth and last thematic workshop of the URBACT network on Creative Clusters will be devoted to discuss on events and cultural agenda as catalysts in promoting creative-based local strategies in local development.
Read more28 September 2010 Contribution to the Public Consultation on the Green Paper "Unlocking the Potential of Cultural and Creative Industries"
The Directorate-General for Education and Culture launched a public consultation on the Green Paper “Unlocking the Potential of Cultural and Creative Industries”.
Read more22 September 2010 Creative Economies Network Approved (Portugal)
The Centro Region Commission of Development approved the appliance to the program Urban Networks of Competitiveness and innovation of the REC – Rede de Economias da Criatividade (Creative Economies Network). The network establishes an action program with the purpose of develop an economy of creativity in the different partners and places, based in tree axis: Creativity, entrepreneurship and creative industries and education.
Read more16 April 2010 Creative Showroom
15 April 2010 Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas in the European Forum on Cultural Industries in Barcelona
The Portuguese city of Óbidos and INTELI, respectively lead partner and full partner of the URBACT network on Creative Clusters, were invited to attend the European Forum on Cultural Industries that took place in 29-30 March 2010, in Barcelona. The objective of the event was to discuss the importance of cultural industries within the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the EU. There were also presented the general lines of the Green Paper on Cultural and Creative Industries.
Read more19 November 2009 URBACT Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas in the 7th Brussels Debate
Urbact Creative Clusters was invited to participate in the 7th Brussels Debate: Towards a creative Europe: What role for creative industries?
Read more11 November 2009 URBACT Creative Clusters in the Seminar “Culture in Local and Regional Development”
URBACT “Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas” was one of the 12 projects selected for being presented in the Seminar “Culture in Local & Regional Development - Evidence from the Structural Funds”.
Read more01 October 2009 Welcome to the human technology city
URBACT Creative Clusters Network has recently been reinforced with the participation of Jyväskylä [130,000 inhabitants], a youthful, lively and international city located in Central Finland.
Read more22 January 2009 Óbidos Charter
Support the "Óbidos Charter", a political manifesto on the potetial role of creativity as a driver for local development in small and midle-sized town in Europe.
Read more09 June 2011 Events
Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas Final Conference - CREATIVE FOOTPRINT | The next big step will be a lot of small steps | Óbidos (PT), Jun. 9, 2011
