Carrer Collsabadell, 11, bjs 4
Carrer Pujades, 126
08450 Llinars del Valles
Spain
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- International/Cultural relations
- Others
- Youth and education
Creative Industries Agency activities:
• Shaping innovation strategies of territorial development via culture and creativity;
• Adopting new approaches to the economy of culture (social entrepreneurship in the field of culture, private public partnership and endowment);
• Researching, monitoring and analysis of the situation within the creative industries and their influence on the economy and the city environment;
• Promoting projects in creative economy sectors and cultural entrepreneurship;
• Sharing experiences in creative industries best practice at an international level and promoting the Russian experience in creative industries development;
• Organizing and delivering various educational programmes;
• Supporting freedom of creativity and unlocking the creative potential of our citizens as the main engine of the creative economy;
• Facilitating networks among creative professionals.
Agency implements research, consulting and educational projects. For example:
• Part-time educational program for creative entrepreneurs from all over Russia «School for Creative Entrepreneurs»(2012-2014)
• Summer Schools on creative economy for the students of Russian universities, scholars of Oxford Russia Fund (2007 - 2015).
• Online Legal Center for creative entrepreneurs from all over Russia (February - May 2013).
• Creative Business Cup 2013 and 2014. Russian stage of the International Competition of Creative Entrepreneurs (2013 - 2015).
• Organization of a professional study trip for Moscow creative entrepreneurs to Copenhagen, Denmark (2014).
• Educational program «Starting Business in Creative Industries» for the Moscow entrepreneurs with the support of Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship (2014).
Smart Eco-CArd
A winner of British Council Programme "Our shared Future"
The project is aiming at engaing local communities of the Mediterranian area to take part in eco-activities in order to raise people`s awareness in ecological sustainability. Various cultural institutions support the project through offering free access to theatres, music halls, musuems, galleries in order to encourage people to take part in the project aswell as to benefit them for collaboration.
Every participant is provided by a smart-card. All actions done by a participant (e.g. bringing glass to recycle centre, recycling clothes, participating in seminars etc.) were stored as bonus points in the card of the participant. Those bonuses then can be exchanged for any cltural service provided by the project.
Our experts spread the word in professional community about the effectiveness of territory development through culture and creative entrepreneurship.
IAs an example, in the attached file there is a presentation of our board member, who is aswell an expert of our partner organization in Russia.
We have a wide network of experts we have worked with and we are building a database of experts wishing to help Meditteranian area grow. The database will be available in our website or can be integrated to the exisiting ones.
We would like to find partners for our possible future projects, we would like to offer our resources to members of network aswell. We also are thinking of grant possibilities in the area.