Our Outputs

Baseline Report

• Abstract baseline report

• State of the art at EU level

• Baseline Study Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas

Launching Conference - Creative Clusters in Small Urban Centres: Challenges and Opportunities, Óbidos (PT), 22 January 2009

• Programme

• Launch Conference Report

• Video Summary

• Photo gallery

• Barnsley - Remaking the Northern England Midsize Town - Helen Ball

• Creative Industries in Rural Areas - The experience of East Midlands - Josephine Burns

• Creative Network - Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas - Miguel Rivas

• Creative Urban Hubs - The Creative Economy in Europe - Jan Runge

• Hodmezovasarhely - Creative Clusters in Local Transitional Economies - Aniko Varga

• Reggio Emilia - Networking Creative Entrepreneurs around a New Media Cluster - Fabrizio Montanari

• Viareggio - Charming Life within a Competitive Local Productive System - Franco Allegretti

Óbidos Charter

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1st Thematic Workshop - Diversifying Local Economic Base & Opportunities to young people, Ploiesti - MIzil (RO), October 29-30, 2009

• Programme

• Creativity-based strategies to re-think an industrial district on furniture manufacturing: Paredes Design City [Portugal]

• Clustering as a tool to foster local productive realities: ceramics in Hódmez:vásárhely [Hungary]

• Re-freshing the sun&beach urban destination: strategies in Viareggio [Italy]

• The wellness cluster in Jyväskylä [Finland]

• Cultivating a creative hotbed: experiences from UK

• Culture centered business networks: a perspective for the in-between-city

• From creative industries to the creative place: case studies from Eastern Europe

• Mapping creative industries in Iasi [Romania]

• Brief Report

• Photo Gallery

2nd Thematic Workshop - Creative Education - Incubating Future Talent - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT), May 06-07, 2010

• Programme

• Report

• Re-defining the role of localities in the education system: a national debate in Portugal

• Creativity in schools in Europe: a survey of teachers

• Entrepreneurship education: TIWI and INMENTOR. A case of talent attraction made by companies

• Beating disciplinary borders: Jyväskylä a Finnish university town

• University of Modena and Reggio Emilia: spinning-off and networking on new media

• Creative people: profiles, training challenges, spaces, mobility

• The role of Festival in the development of local economy

• Micro-strategies I: creative school contests: an experience in Hódmezővásárhely [Hungary]

3rd Thematic Workshop - The Space of the Creative Class - Urban Facilities and Strategies for Creative Entrepreneurs - Hódmezóvásárhely, (HU), October 10-11, 2010

• Programme

• Report

• The Space of the Creative Class: Urban Facilities and Strategies for Creative Entrepreneurs - Lead Expert introductory note

• Spaces for creative people: concepts, trends and the European kaleidoscope

• Revealing spatial structures in supporting creative-based strategies: a case from low density urban area

• Reggio Territorio Esteso: re-formulating city positioning 01

• Reggio Territorio Esteso: re-formulating city positioning 02

• Creative entrepreneurs in space: the case of Budapest

• Creative Óbidos [Portugal]: range of key facilities and brand strategy

• City strategies attracting and retaining the creative class: a Hungarian perspective

• Bringing a sector to life: attracting and retaining creative talent

• Attracting and retaining talent: a strategy in Central Finland

• How a town can help in order that creativity becomes the nest of the town?

4th Thematic Workshop - The Creative Ecosystem: Events and Cultural Agenda as Catalysts - Barnsley (UK) March 17-18, 2011

• Programme

• Introductory note

• Report

• Remaking Barnsley: Connecting the Cultural Agenda

• Óbidos: Blending Culture

• Evaluation of cultural interventions as a tool for the creative sector

• Remembrance Point in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary: New roles for a Museum

• Growing & Incubating Creativity: how important is the physical space?

• Spreading Locally the Cultural Big Event: Reggio Emilia and the Fotografia Europea Festival

• Scaling up locally initiated events to generate regional and national impact

• The impact of festivals and events on urban centers  |  Lively city centers : the strategy of Jyväskylä (Finland)

• Closing session

Final Conference - The next big step will be a lot of small steps - Óbidos [PT], 9th June 2011

• Programme

• Photo gallery

• Reporting Note - Miguel Rivas and Catarina Selada

• URBACT II Network on Creative Clusters - Key Messages - Miguel Rivas

• Lessons from Small and Medium-sized cities in the Creative Economy: networks & sustainability - Roberta Comunian

• Upgrading Simplicity: From Ideas to solutions (level 1 - The Ideia)
  • Materializing Dreams - Dream Machine Project - Filip Meuris & Jan Despiegelaere
  • Making more with less: Ideas bank - José Carlos Mota

• Human Solutions: You are the answer (level 2 - Doing)
  • TIWI: Making things simple - Federico Riboldazzi
  • ABC Incubator: Creative Companies in a small town - Filipe Montargil
  • Uma Casa portuguesa: Promoting Local Produts - Patrícia Valinho

• A Creative Cloud: For a Community Storm (leve 3 - Atmosphere)
  • Terni Strategy Incubating a Local Creative Ecosystem - Paola Amato
  • Guimarães, The Creative Economy Agenda - Cristina Coelho
  • Setting people at the core in Creative-based Urban Strategies - Codruta Cruceanu

• Creative Spaces: Living hard | Working Creatively (level 4 - Space)
  • Urban Planning facing the Creative Class - Jarkko Könönen
  • A Cultural Platform from the countryside - Rui Horta

• Action Plans to cities of Action (level 5 - Zoom)
  • Action Plans to cities of action - Catarina Selada
  • Óbidos: Creative Economy - Miguel Silvestre
  • Barnsley: Re-making the Northern England Midsized Town - Ann Gosse
  • Jyväskylä: Cooperation an cross-pollination - Marrying cultura and wellness - Pirkko Korhonen
  • Reggio Emilia: Citá dele Persona - Mauro Bonaretti

• Governing the Local Creative Ecosystem (level 6 - Commitment)
• And now? Is being creative enough? Creativity in the European Agenda - Fernando Freire de Sous

LOCAL ACTION PLANS -  Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas

• Óbidos Local Action Plan | The Óbidos Local Action Plan is a sum of some of the challenges that the municipality of Óbidos will face in the following years and how we plan on making it successful (Download LAP and LAP Summary)

• INTELI Technical Plan | Creative-based Strategies in Small and Medium-sized Cities: Guidelines for Local Authorities, 2011. INTELI´s document is a theoretical and methodological contribution plus a collection of case studies from USA, Canada and Europe (Download file)

• Jyväskylä Local Action Plan | Marrying Culture and Wellness, 2011. During the Creative Clusters project the city of Jyväskylä, in Central Finland, has begun to lead a work in order to link culture and creative industries to a wider local cluster related to wellness (Download file)

• Enguera Local Action Plan | Enguera Cultural Landscape, 2011. The small town of Enguera, in Spain, is working with the concept of cultural landscape in order to better approach creative-based local strategies in rural contexts (Download file)

• Hódmezővásárhely Local Action Plan | From “Rustic Paris” to Open Hódmezővásárhely, 2011. With an emphasis on city branding and marketing, the Hungarian city will test the opportunities that cultural and creative-based activities may have to create employment, in a context of strong declining of the local industrial background, the ceramics industry, and also with the aim of promoting a visitor economy (Download file)

• Reggio Emilia Local Action Plan | Reggio Innovative and Creative Ecosystem, 2011. This plan intends to activate synergies between a number of existing assets in the city related to university, innovative education, cultural agenda, the new media as emerging sector and a lively city centre (Download file)

• Mizil Local Action Plan | The New Mizil. This plan has the main objective of fixing people in town, creating the necessary conditions in economic, social and cultural/creative terms. The slogan is “at your service, citizen” (Download file)

CREATIVE SCHOOLS CONTEST

• Creative School Contest – Barnsley (UK) – download file
• Creative School Contest – Hódmezővásárhely (HU)  - download file
• Creative School Contest – Enguera (SP) – download file

STUDY VISITS

Study Visit  Jyvaskyla (FIN) – 9-10 July 2009

• Programme
• Report

Study Visit  Kortrijk (BE) – 21-22 October 2010

• Programme
• Collection of Case Studies

OTHER ARTICLES AND REPORTS

Paper “Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas: A Case Study Approach” presented by INTELI in the ERSA Congress, August 2010

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From Creative Industries to the Creative Place: Refreshing the Local Development Agenda in Small and Medium-sized Towns - Miguel Rivas, URBACT lead expert

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Learning from Troubled Times: City Reactions to Economic Crisis - Miguel Rivas, URBACT lead expert

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Viareggio, a report on the URBACT lead expert´s study visit - 16th February, 2009

• Report

Reaction to the EC Green Paper on Creative Industries

• Newsletter The Creative Brief - Special Issue

City case study: Barnsley - Re-making the Northern England Midsized Town

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Final Report by the Lead Expert, Miguel Rivas

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