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Roadmap 2025

The Cities & Regions Network welcomes policymakers and representatives of professional associations in Europe connecting competencies and backgrounds from diverse departments, sectors, and policy domains. Through the C&RN, Delegates across Europe collaborate to identify societal challenges, co-create forms of peer learning and transform policy frameworks to foster resilience and social cohesion for and through CCSIs.

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Innovation in CCSI policies

The Cities & Regions Network addresses a systemic gap in policy making whereby the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI) are under-represented in economic, cultural and research policies.

 

The aim is to grow into a mission-driven community for inspiration, learning, integration, and empowerment open to policymakers from all governance levels and sectors.

 

Explore the work done so far

Online workshop, June 2024
Meeting in Bilbao, October 2023

By fostering coherent policies, programmes and frameworks that overcome policy gaps between the domains of culture, economy, research and education, EIT Culture & Creativity supports a fit for purpose foundation for local creators to thrive, to turn ideas into innovations and income, and to grow and create jobs.

Bernd Fesel

CEO of EIT Culture & Creativity​

We need to re-assess and reinvent our incentives and regulations regime. It will only gain traction once we have embedded a new mindset. Politicians, public servants, business, and academia must help shape this new landscape of thinking, planning and acting as does providing people with agency to harness our collective imagination, intelligences and collective influence.

Charles Landry

President and Co-Founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival​

It comes down to brave political decisions. For a long time, Umeå has invested heavily in culture and creativity, and still is the city in Sweden investing most per capita on culture. And it has paid off, in engaged and value-driven citizens, pushing the agenda for local democracy, climate and social sustainability.

Janet Ågren

Deputy Mayor of the City of Umeå

Current Delegates and Ambassadors

  • Aitziber Atorrasagasti Calcedo, Basque Government
  • Anita Debaere, Pearle*-Live Performance Europe
  • Araf Ahmadali, City of Amsterdam
  • Bruno Inácio, Municipality of Faro
  • Carlos Moedas, Municipality of Lisboa
  • Charles Landry, Creative Bureaucracy Festival
  • Carsten Brosda, Municipality of Hamburg
  • Chiara Colangelo, Regione Abruzzo, Dipartimento Presidenza
  • Cinzia Lagioia, Creative Puglia Cluster, Apulia region
  • Christian Ehler, Member of European Parliament
  • Cristina Ortega Nuere, World Leisure Organisation
  • Daniel Martínez Rodríguez, City of Madrid
  • Dr. Stella Donata Haag, Filmuniversiät Babelsberg
  • Elke Timmerman, Flanders DC
  • Erik Pelling, Chairman of the Municipal Board, Uppsala
  • Ernest Slot, Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap
  • Evdokimos Konstantinidis, ENOLL​
  • Gerbrand Bas, Federatie Creatieve Industrie​
  • Gerin Trautenberger, Kreativwirtschaft Austria
  • Helen Smith, Impala Music
  • Jan Bormans, European Startup Network
  • Jan Pekař, Deputy Mayor, City of Český Těšín
  • Janet Ågren, Municipality of Umeå
  • Jari-Pekka Kaleva, European Games Developer Federation (EGDF)
  • Jessica Fuller, Western Development Commission
  • Jokin Garatea, Municipality of Forua, Spain
  • Julie Hervé, Eurocities Network
  • Jürgen K. Enninger, Municipality of Augsburg
  • Jutta Scheibelberger, Wirtschaftsagentur Wien/ Vienna Business Agency
  • Krista Petajajarvi, The Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture, Municipal council of Kirkkonummi, Helsinki metropolitan area
  • Kristian Horsburgh, LUX Innovation​
  • Lars Ebert, Culture Action Europe​
  • Luis Fernando Martín Izquierdo. VICECONSEJERO DE CULTURA Y TURISMO
  • Laure Kaltenbach, Creative Tech​
  • Lourenco Jardim, City of Lisboa​
  • Marcel Gibóda, City of Kosice
  • Maria Hansen, ELIA Artschools
  • Maria J. del Blanco, Bilbao Ekintza
  • Marjolein Cremer, City of Amsterdam
  • Martijn van der Mark & Idelette Rocha, City of Rotterdam
  • Mirijam Boehme, City of Aachen
  • Morena Diazzi, Regione Emilia Romagna
  • Mustafa Gül, Istanbul Bilgi University
  • Natália Oszkó-Jakab, The Hungarian Tourism Program Foundation
  • Nada Pesheva, Advisor of the Ministry of Culture
  • Ola Jacobson, Children & Youth Strategy, Cultural Administration, City of Helsingborg
  • Pier Luigi Sacco, University of Chieti-Pescara
  • Robert Piaskowski & Carlos Panek Soares de Araujo, City of Krakow
  • Scott Lipinski, European Fashion Alliance
  • Simone Dudt, European Music Council
  • Stefan Gies, AEC Music
  • Tommaso Sacchi, City of Milano
  • Urmas Klaas, Municipality of Tartu
  • Yann Galut, Maire de Bourges
  • Yordanka Fandakova, Municipality of Sofia
  • Zarja Vintar, Kofein dizajn
  • Zora Jaurová, City of Bratislava
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