Design-Driven Innovation: EU, Regional And Local Support For Creative Industries
ERRIN's Design & Creativity Working Group welcomes you to an event on the 8th of March, 09.00 - 13.00, where participants will explore benefits of including design and creative industries in innovation. The event is hosted by Unioncamere Lombardia (Place du Champs de Mars 2, Brussels).
During the first part of the event we will learn about design-driven innovation and creative industries supported through EU programmes. After that, we will focus on access to finance via the Cultural and Creative Sector Guarantee Facility as well as crowdfunding. Last but not least, we will discuss how design and creative industries can be included in regional and local innovation systems.
The event aims at bringing together representatives from SMEs, universities, EU institutions, regional and local offices in Brussels, civil servants, intermediaries and practitioners.
The event is public, open to ERRIN members and external organisations alike - feel free to circulate!
Below is an indicative agenda :
Date: 8th of MarchTime: 09.00 - 13.00Venue: Unioncamere Lombardia EU Office, Place du Champs de Mars 2, Brussels
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09.00-9.30 Registration and coffee
09.30-9.40 Welcome & Introduction
Francesco Zurlo, Deputy Director at Politecnico di Milano’s School of Design
Session 1: Showing ways to include CCIs in innovation processes by using EU programs
09.40 -10.00 Presentation of the WORTH project Christina Molina, Textile Research Institute, Alcoy, Spain
10.00-10.20 Presentation of the Design4Innovation INTERREG Europe project
Steven Cleeren, Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship – Design4Innovation
10.20-10.30 Discussion
Session 2: Highlighting access to finance (the Guarantee Facility, crowdfunding)
10:30 - 10:50 Matching of Crowdfunding and Structural Funds
Francesca Passeri, European Crowdfunding Network
10:50 - 11:15 Cultural and Creative Sector Guarantee Facility
Maciej Szymanowicz, DG CONNECT
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Session 3: Demonstrating inclusion of design and creative industries in regional innovation systems
11.30-11.50 Support the start-up of CCIs and the cross-innovation with SMEs in traditional sector: the European projects CREA and CO-CREATE
Arianna Vignati, Co-Director at Creative Industries Lab, Politecnico di Milano
11.50-12.10 How companies and organizations can engage with CCI - and how they can position themselves accordingly
Koen Snoeckx - Baltan Laboratories and Creative Ring, Eindhoven
12.10-12.35 When design… takes up residence - a program that facilitates integration of design in the companies
Laurent Vacheresse, Cité du Design. Saint Étienne
12.35-12.55 TBC - Programmes at the University of Wolverhampton supporting SME’s to introduce design innovations
Jonathan Lester, University of Wolverhampton
12.55-13.00 Wrap-up & conclusion
In addition to this, there is a training course hosted by Unioncamere Lombardia on the 7th March on design-driven innovation for Enterprises (more info here).
Kind regards,
Anna and Jakob, for the Design and Creativity WG