The Support for Industrial Innovation Unit at the European Commission's Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General is inviting regional organisations to take advantage, free of charge, of new types of advisory support services offered by the forthcoming European Service Innovation Centre in view of better capitalising on service innovation for promoting regional development and facilitating industrial change.
A call for proposals on “European Creative Districts” has just been published on the DG Enterprise and Industry webportal. The call shall support two large-scale demonstrators that aim at demonstrating the transformative power of creative industries for the rejuvenation of traditional industrial regions.
The work of collecting and analysing the examples of best practice has been ongoing since the second Reflection Group meeting in Brussels in October, where several important decisions were made. The first major milestone of the project has therefore now been achieved.
This film summarises the goal of the IF Innovation Festivals project and some of the key outcomes of the Lisbon, Barcelona, Kortrijk and Tallinn IF events, and the IF Lab international competition hosted in Tallinn in September 2011.
