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CRE:HUB

policies for cultural CREative industries: the HUB for innovative regional development

Smart
SME competitiveness
2014-2020
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Project summary

What is CRE:HUB?

CRE:HUB brings together eight regions that consider Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) a strategic sector of development and want to create new enterprises and to support the existing ones working in this field.

Why is needed ?

  • CCIS have difficulties in access to credit and lack resources to enhance their competitiveness on the global market, build effective partnerships, extend their activity to other countries.
  • CCIs represent an innovative branch of business and have the potential to increase regional competiveness and job creation capacity.    

What are Cultural and Creative Industries?

CCIs are those industries that use culture as an input and have a cultural dimension, although their output is mainly functional "This classification includes architecture and design, which integrate creative elements into wider processes, as well as subsectors such as graphic design, fashion design or advertising. At a more peripheral level, many other industries, among others those of tourism and new technologies, rely on content production for their development and are therefore to some extent interdependent with CCIs". According to EU Commission document COM (2010) 183 final, Green Paper -The cultural and creative industries, unlocking the potential 

What did this project achieve?

Exchange of experience

Partners, experts and stakeholders will learn one from each other Main CRE:HUB outputs will be achieved through an approach based on sharing improvements every step of the way among the different regions involved.  The project will implement working sessions of policy stakeholders as well as on-field evaluations and peer reviews of the policy systems. The results and the changes will be accessible and oriented to whole regional CCIs policy and productive systems. Action Plans implementation  Each region will improve eight programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs that will concretely result in improvements of the management of policy instruments and in implementation of new projects Policy changes will be tailored to meet specific CCIs needs.

How long will last the process? 

The project is developed in two phases 1st phase  (April 2016 - September 2018) main activities  Production of regional analysis including: 
  • characteristics of CCI
  • stakeholders identification
  • SWOT analysis
  • Regional policy and innovation strategy for smart specialisation (RIS3)
  • Identification of regional best practices and lessons learnt

Local stakeholder group establishment and their involvement in

  • Regional analysis assessment
  • Barrier and solution matrix definition
  • Study visits to learn to share experiences and results with other regions involved
  • Roadmap definition to develop Action Plans for improving cultural and creative industries (CCI) in their regions

Mutual assessment and learning through on filed visit evaluation conducted by experts and peer review report

During the Phase 2 (October 2018 – September 2020) the implementation of Action Plans will take place.

A few numbers

1,484,484 €
01 Apr 2016-31 Mar 2021
8 partners