Transcript CCI Event Presentation

DESIGN & CREATIVITY WG
10, April 2013
CREATIVE AND CULTURAL
INDUSTRIES EVENT
BACKGROUND
 The CCI employ millions of people across the EU-27, contribute a substantial share to
EU GDP and grow faster than the rest of the economy. CCIs are also a lever for social
and territorial cohesion, as well as driving creativity and innovation with positive
spillover effects on the rest of the economy and on society as a whole.
 Businesses in this sector, and especially SMEs, too often face obstacles to fulfilling their
full potential. The current economic crisis is also adversely impacting on these
industries, making it even more difficult for them to access the resources they need to
finance their activities and adapt to the new environment.
 Europe needs to invest more in its cultural and creative sectors because they
significantly contribute to economic growth, employment, innovation and
social cohesion. Creative Europe will safeguard and promote cultural and
linguistic diversity and strengthen the competitiveness of the cultural and
creative sectors.
OBJECTIVES AND GOALS
 We need a European bottom-up approach to match the top-down agenda and
initiatives from the European Commission. We need it to be able to create real synergy
between the opportunities and policies deriving from the European Commission, and
the CCI activities going on at local/regional level.
 We need to present innovative and concrete examples of how CCI can be the main
actor for a new economic development in Europe.
 The proposition for the long-term strategic goal for CCI Days is to provide:
 Policy information
 Information from relevant key people in the EU commission
 Insight in available funding
 Inspiration
 A brokerage opportunity between regions, policy makers, regional stakeholders
 Network opportunities
FOR WHOM IS CCI EVENT?
The main stakeholders are the ERRIN Regions, and primarily it addresses the
need for the regions and different CCI stakeholders (private and public) and CCI
end-users within these regions.
These are:
 Public Authorities
 Public sectors (education, health sector, culture, research, ...)
 Private enterprises
 Chamber of Commerce seeing potentials in CCI clusters as an economic
driver for local/regional development
 Organisations and associations promoting creativity and culture
 Regional/local projects and initiatives with a creativity perspective
HOW CAN THEY BENEFIT FROM
CCI EVENT?
The competitive advantage for CCI Event is to provide a meetingplace for policy-makers, politicians, researchers, teachers,
employers, counsellors and company-owners.
CCI Event can bring:
 Inspiration to new strategies, new partnerships and new
solutions.
 New ideas to develop the CCI platform in Europe and to
coordinate the existing ones.
 More contacts between end-users and producers/developers.
 Update on creativity policies at European level
 Coordinate the regional policies among stakeholders
STRUCTURE OF THE EVENT
1. EUROPEAN POLICIES & OPPORTUNITIES IN
2014-2020 PROGRAMS
2. HOW TO BETTER USE STRUCTURAL FUNDS
3. ACCESS TO FINANCE
4. EUROPEAN PLATFORMS
1. EUROPEAN POLICIES &
OPPORTUNITIES IN 2014-2020
PROGRAMS
The Commission's proposals for programs and instruments for the new Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020, notably Creative Europe, Erasmus for
all, the Cohesion Policy Funds, Horizon 2020, COSME and Connecting Europe
Facility can make a decisive contribution to support the further development
of the cultural and creative sectors and strengthen their contribution to the
Europe 2020 Strategy for jobs and growth.
We would like to provide a general overview on the existing programs and on
the foreseen actions in the next Programs 2014-2020
SPEAKERS:
 Creative Europe
 Horizon 2020 (DG RESEARCH)
 COSME (DG ENT)
 European Agenda for Culture (Member States Expert Group?)
 Policy Learning Platform of the European Creative Industries Alliance (ECIAP)
2. HOW TO BETTER USE
STRUCTURAL FUNDS
 In many regions and cities, cultural and creative sectors constitute a major asset for
growth. The challenge is how to further integrate the cultural and creative sectors into
regional innovation strategies for smart specialisation which in the current
Commission proposals will be an ex ante conditionality to access funds.
 The Commission has published a guide to Regional innovation Strategies for Smart
Specialisation, drafted by the Smart specialization platform – S3Platform – aiming to
assist regions and Member States in developing, implementing and reviewing regional
smart specialisation strategies, with one section dedicated to cultural and creative
industries.
 SPEAKERS
 BEST PRACTICES
3. ACCESS TO FINANCE
1. Creative Europe aims to promote cultural and linguistic diversity in Europe and reinforce the
competitiveness of the cultural and creative sectors. It will (also):
 Set up a dedicated Financial Facility, providing guarantees to make access to bank loans
easier for small enterprises and organisations; this facility, included in the future Financial
Debt Instrument for SMEs together with the Horizon 2020 and COSME Facilities, will also
seek to achieve a systemic impact on the financial sector, by improving the capacity of
financial institutions to assess cultural and creative projects, pooling current limited expertise
across national borders, and support initiatives aiming to strengthen the investment-readiness
in the sectors
 Support actions for capacity building aimed at audience development and the testing of
business models
2. In the framework of the European Creative Industries Alliance, the EU is funding two partnerships
on better access to finance (FAME and C-I Factor) until 2014.
3. The MEDIA Production Guarantee Fund is facilitating film producers' access to private sources of
financing.
 SPEAKERS
 BEST PRACTICES
4. EUROPEAN PLATFORMS
 How to improve the cooperation among the existing European
Platforms?
 How our regional stakeholder could participate more actively in
these platforms?
SPEAKERS
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European Creative Districts
European Creative Industries Alliance
EEN - Creative Industries Sector Group
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INTERACTIVE SESSION/BROKERAGE SESSION
NEXT STEPS
VENUE
DATE
LOMBARDY REGION OFFICE
25TH SEPTEMBER 2013
14,00 – 18,00
DEADLINES
• Define the final structure of the event
Deadline
10th May 2013
• Identify the list of potential speakers
Deadline
14th June 2013
• Send the invitations to the regional stakeholders
Deadline
21th June 2013