Creative Economies Network Approved (Portugal)
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22 September 2010The Centro Region Commission of Development approved the appliance to the program Urban Networks of Competitiveness and innovation of the REC – Rede de Economias da Criatividade (Creative Economies Network). The network establishes an action program with the purpose of develop an economy of creativity in the different partners and places, based in tree axis: Creativity, entrepreneurship and creative industries and education.
REC network as Óbidos, Guimarães, Montemor-o-Velho, Tondela, Montemor-o-Novo, Seia and Fundação Bissaya Barreto (Portugal). With a global budget of 9M €, the network will develop common and individual projects.
The first meeting was in September 2, in Óbidos, with the mayors of all partners. As result was defined a preliminary agenda and the definition that the best model to manage the network is the creation of an association until the end of the program.
This model will allow a permanent and more effective relation between public, private and associative actors, one of the most important factors to the development of creative industries.
This network is a sequential and logic step in the line of development that Óbidos has presenting through the participation in URBACT program. It’s the same manifesto of creativity in small places, and the need to find innovative public policies.
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