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EU regional and urban development

Cultural and Creative Regional Ecosystems

Context

CCSI contributes to the economy with 5.3% of the total European GVA (Gross Value Added) and employs more than 12 million people in the EU, 7.5% of the European workforce. In 2022, the EU recognised the relevance of CCSI for Europe's economic and social development by launching a new EIT KIC related to them. CCRE-S3 will be a counterpart of this initiative funded by Horizon Europe, bridging it with Smart Specialisation and macro-regional strategies in the frame of the European Territorial Cooperation.

To this end, CCRE-S3 will stimulate new insights and opportunities related to cultural and creative experiences for local communities and residents through public-private investments involving CCSI-related groups of professionals that use, apply and implement new technologies. Also, we use Digital Innovation Hubs as a meeting point to unify outlooks for promoting new models of CCSI based on user experience, circular business models and co-creation and co-innovation paradigms.

Year established: 2020

Mission

An overall challenge is the valorisation of the common characteristics of CCSI and the establishment of an open discovery process to identify strategic investments.
Some examples of challenges when investing in innovative solutions for achieving sustainability and social resilience are:

  • Human-centred design: To enhance cultural assets of historical centres and landscapes by using new technologies that improve participation and access for all people. At the same time, to position CCSI as “innovation service providers” with international projection.
  • Circular city/territory: To foster CCSI spill-over effects to other industries and act as catalysts for building innovation capacities under circular approaches.
  • Open and Collaborative Innovation: Unfavourable dynamics related to urban pollution, extreme weather events and tourist flows put at risk our heritage and require developing new instruments of low-impact intervention and scale models to reduce preservation costs.

Objectives

The following specific objectives will demonstrate the transformative nature of the CCRE:

  • Facilitate investments in the strategic use of NT for increasing CCSI-SME’s competitiveness and boosting entrepreneurship and internationalisation.
  • Boost adaptive and interconnected CCRE following a bottom-up, participatory multi-stakeholder approach creating added value in design and personal services targeting mass customisation of wellbeing.
  • Build resilient CCRE as driving forces for urban and rural transformation, responding to environmental and more sustainable lifestyles involving diverse cultural identities.
  • Develop local tailor-made businesses and shared financing models to support a Human-centred long-term development.
  • Promote accessibility and inclusion of CCSI services regardless of age and disability, creating a model for an Accessible Macro Region and minorities inclusion.
  • Accelerate result-oriented cooperation among innovation system actors to use research and innovation results conveyed in creative industries and qualified new jobs.
  • Cooperate with Clusters and Chambers of Commerce networks to enable efficient interfacing with CCSI stakeholders.
  • Disseminate the New European Bauhaus principles.

Shared smart specialisation areas

  • DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: Georeferenced Information Systems, Advanced Sensors, Remote Sensing, Digital photogrammetry, 3D/4D modelling, Advanced Multimedia, Gamification, Extended Reality, 5G deployments.
  • APPLIED PHOTONICS and KETs for restoration: Laser systems and archaeometry, X-ray & Tomography, Holography & laser show, Nanomaterials, Biomaterials.
  • SOCIAL INNOVATION: for City/Territory Regeneration: multi-stakeholder dialogue to unify outlooks based on Human-Centred Design, Circular Economy Creativeness, and Open and Collaborative Innovation paradigms.

Tags

Modernising CCSI, empowering local communities, sustainable lifestyle, spill-over effects, human-centred design, multi-stakeholder approach, macro-regional strategies.

Regions (lead and partner)

  • Leading regions: Aragon (ES), Tuscany (IT), Western Greece (EL)
  • Participating regions: Armenia (AM), Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA), Georgia (GE), Greece: Attica (EL), Central Greece (EL), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (EL), North Aegean (EL); Italy: Emilia-Romagna (IT), Friuli-Venezia Giulia (IT), Montenegro (ME); Portugal: Alentejo (PT), Serbia (RS); Spain: Basque Country (ES), Navarra (ES)

Organisations involved

Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR), EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR), Aragon Region (ES), Tuscany Region (IT), Western Greece Region (EL)

Related projects

  • The AI-NURECC Youth Action: AI-NURECC Initiative is the Adriatic Ionian Network of Universities, Regions, Chambers of Commerce and Cities and involves the key stakeholders of the AI Region that have joined their efforts to support the EUSAIR implementation. The final goal is to promote a structured dialogue and a stronger cooperation among Regional & Local Authorities, Universities, Chambers of Commerce, youth networks, entrepreneurs and civil society. (https://www.faic.eu/en/ai-nurecc-project/)
  • “BE. CULTOUR” - Beyond CULtural TOURism: heritage innovation networks as drivers of Europeanisation towards a human-centred and circular tourism economy.”(https://becultour.eu/)
  • TOURAL Project (https://toural-project.eu/)
  • AI-NURECC PLUS ( https://ainurecc.eu/ )
  • European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance (CHARTER-Alliance): The Erasmus+ funded project, started in January 2021, wants to create a lasting, comprehensive sectoral skills strategy to guarantee that Europe has the necessary cultural heritage skills to support sustainable societies and economies, including transversal competences such as digital/technological and green/blue economy skills. The consortium of 47 partners represents key education and training institutions, organisations, networks and employers of the European cultural heritage sector. They have joined forces to professionalise the cultural heritage sector and combat the lack of statistical recognition of the sector as an economic force. The Alliance covers 5 fields of analysis to identify core and transversal competences, including digital, technological and green adaptation skills. Safeguarding and preservation; crafts and traditional knowledge; dissemination and communication; knowledge; planning and management. ( https://charter-alliance.eu/ )

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Latest news and upcoming events

Intergroup event with RICC and the ERRIN CCSI cluster.

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