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06.03.2013
C-I Factor brings together ideas, entrepreneurship, finance and the crowd
Many of the new and young holders of creative ideas are quite used to think in open design and co-creation. How can they transfer this thinking on to their potential investors? With the emerging creative industries public funds, private sponsors and investors alike have to redefine their financial more ...
18.01.2013
European? What about Union? The EU's DNA
Since 1991 KEA is a Brussels-based strategic consultancy and research centre providing advice, support and research in relation to creative industries, cultural, entertainment, media and sport sectors. KEA acts as a European hub to foster culture and creative industries and culture-based innovation more ...
05.12.2012
An interview with Androulla Vassiliou, the EU Culture Commissioner
The EU Commissioner for culture, Androulla Vassiliou, is making a bold move in asking for a 37% increase in the culture budget at a time of austerity across the continent. We interviewed her to hear why she has made such a strong case for putting culture at the heart of European policy.She tells us more ...
Ann Branch
18.11.2012
Audience Development in Europe - A conference in Brussels asks about who's watching
Organized by “culture in motion”, the EU invited to attend a congress about audience development in Europe and 1000 cultural workers registered for Brussels to join the meeting. A selection of speakers from different countries was asked to speak about their experiences and approaches to more ...
The European Commission
26.10.2012
The European Commission's Communication on Culture
A new communication from the European Commission emphasises the importance of the cultural and creative sectors to the EU, and the importance of the EU to the cultural and creative sectors. But why now?In September, a new Communication from the European Commission was published, aiming at reminding more ...
21.10.2012
European culture policy: actions speak louder than words
In Brussels, developing a strategy for cultural policy of the EU has been an ongoing process for years now – which is just as well because artists and creative minds in the member states will benefit from a stronger cultural awareness in Brussels.The German culture council has often analysed more ...
19.09.2012
5 years of jazzplayseurope
jazzplayseurope is a crazy experiment: a bunch of Jazz musicians who don’t know each other at all go on a tour including several European countries. You wonder how that will sound? Well, who wouldn’t… The idea is that wild – who would have thought that it would make it to more ...
05.06.2011
Beyond 2019: Quo vadis capital of culture?
The European Union stands at the crossroads of one of its most prestigious politico-cultural instruments. It has trouble giving a statement whether the format "capital of culture" will have a future. What is missing are clear terms and the courage to reflect on the experiences that were more ...
29.05.2011
Nilgün Mirze, Istanbul: "This outdated culture bureaucracy has to disappear!"
Culture manager Julien Sigard, co-director of the Service de la culture in Brussels and Esra Nilgün Mirze, director of International affairs of the Capital of Culture Istanbul 2010 demand a radical new way of thinking from the culture bureaucracy: the adjustment of public funding structures to more ...
05.11.2010
Sandy Claes: "Creativity has been a dirty word these last decades"
Sandy ClaesSandy Claes is a media-designer, lecturer, researcher, independent filmmaker and artist from Belgium. She won several awards with her experimental films like "Bruised" or "On a lead". Since the discovery of the “Creative City” (Charles Landry, 1995) and the “Creative Class” (Richard more ...
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