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Duration
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01.07.2011 - 31.12.2013
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Funding and budget
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Interreg IV B - Northern Periphery
1 135 000 Eur
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Position in the project
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Partner
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Overall objective
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Creative Edge (CEdge) is a pan-regional initiative for sustainable growth of NPP creative businesses, through increasing their access to international markets and developing their emerging creative talent. By expanding opportunities to commercialise creative goods and services beyond the region, growth potential and job creation will be enabled and support will be provided via pan-regional networks and export and employment enabling platforms.
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Project purpose
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By consolidating the export and emerging talent development onto a single pan-regional model combined with meeting points and workshops, both virtual and actual networks will emerge. Creative Edge intends to create a practical programme to work on the challenges identified in focus groups and consultation in the peripheral regions as being of key concern to creatives i.e. accessing new markets, job opportunities, scalability, collaboration, information exchange, business development skills and affordable creative spaces. The objectives of the two main themes will be as follows:
- Creative Model for Access to Export Development of existing creative goods and services from micro and SME organisations and increased interaction with the wider business ecosystem, in the NPP regions.
- Access to Emerging Talent – To be achieved via the aforementioned creative model which will outline and develop the following for emerging young creative talent - Portfolios, Employment bank and Meeting Points (PEMP) for the creative industry in the northern periphery.
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- A pan-regional model developed and implemented for export growth of creative goods and services
- Build networks and strengthen knowledge transfer between the creative and the traditional industries, the educational institutions and young people.
- Create and develop new and existing physical and virtual meeting places between young people, educational institutions and the existing traditional and creative industries in the region.
- Develop and implement a new employment bank with a new form of portfolios and “organic” CVs on a creative model (virtual meeting place).
- Examine and disseminate the young creators’/students’ new work forms and methods to the creative industries and the educational institutions in order to bridge competence loss in the regions
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Lead partner
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National University of Ireland Galway (Ireland)
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Partners
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Region Vasterbotten & Film i Västerbotten (Sweden), SEED Craigavon Borough Council (Northern Ireland), Western Development Commission (Ireland), Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
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Contact
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Saila Vaara
+358 040 752 8573
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