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Ideas Foundation: Report on Cultural and Creative Industries in Spain

Ideas Foundation: Report on Cultural and Creative Industries in Spain

In its recent report on cultural and creative industries in Spain, the Ideas Foundation has declared that the field of cultural and creative industries has become a strategic sector in...

Participation in a British Council Roundtable on the Creative Economy

Participation in a British Council Roundtable on the Creative Economy

On 18 June, the British Council's Creative and Cultural Economy Programme hosted a roundtable discussion entitled 'Creative Industries in Development' in London. The event brought together several public and private...

#ConectaKultura: Forum on Creative Entrepreneurship in Oaxaca

#ConectaKultura: Forum on Creative Entrepreneurship in Oaxaca

From 7 to 9 June Oaxaca hosted the 2nd Forum on Creative Entrepreneurship of the #ConectaKultura project, an initiative by CLT Consultores in the framework of the "Strengthening Creative Capacities...

3rd Forum on Cultural Industries: Video Summary

3rd Forum on Cultural Industries: Video Summary

Organized by the Santillana Foundation and the Alternativas Foundation with the support of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the 3rd Forum on Cultural Industries was held...

FOMECC Senegal: ''Crossed Views'' Exhibition

FOMECC Senegal: ''Crossed Views'' Exhibition

From 11 May to 10 June 2012, the FOMECC Senegal office in Dakar is hosting a visual arts exhibition entitled "Crossed Views". It is a part of the OFF program...

Debate on Cultural and Creative Industries in Catalonia and Europe

Debate on Cultural and Creative Industries in Catalonia and Europe

On 29 May, a debate on the future of the cultural and creative industries in Catalonia and Europe was held in Barcelona. Around 100 people attended the event, organized by...

New #ConectaKultura Website

New #ConectaKultura Website

From 27 to 29 April, Atlixco (Puebla, Mexico) hosted the first #ConectaKultura training forum, an action initiated by Mexican organisation CLT Consultores in the context of the "Strengthening Creative Capacities...

Study ''The Creative Motor for Regional Development: Arts and Culture Projects and the EU Structural Funding in Austria''

Study ''The Creative Motor for Regional Development: Arts and Culture Projects and the EU Structural Funding in Austria''

Conducted by Österreichische Kulturdokumentation, this new study shows for the first time that EU funds for regional development in Austria are making an essential contribution to art and culture and...

UNCTAD XIII: Policy Dialogue on Creative Economy

UNCTAD XIII: Policy Dialogue on Creative Economy

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is celebrating its XIII meeting in Doha, Qatar, from 21 to 26 April 2012. In the context of the conference, the...

Les Rencontres' Meeting: Which Europe of Culture Twenty Years after the Maastricht Treaty? (Maastricht, 22-25 March 2012)

Les Rencontres' Meeting: Which Europe of Culture Twenty Years after the Maastricht Treaty? (Maastricht, 22-25 March 2012)

Motivated by the 20th anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty which introduced a legal basis for culture for the first time at the European level, Les Rencontres, Association of European Cities...