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The Creative Hubs Forum, has gathered from 12 to 14 February, those responsible for creative hubs in Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy and Germany to network, debate, share business models, explore working methodologies, and generally seek closer cooperation at local, national and European level.
This international Forum was concluded with a public debate that shared the results from the two work days and that discussed with policy makers “Public policies to support a creative environment”.

ECHF Lisbon '15 Attending Hubs include those from: Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lebanon, Malta, The Netherlands, Portugal, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine and the UK.

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The Creative Hubs Forum, has gathered from 12 to 14 February, those responsible for creative hubs in Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy and Germany to network, debate, share business models, explore working methodologies, and generally seek closer cooperation at local, national and European level.
This international Forum was concluded with a public debate that shared the results from the two work days and that discussed with policy makers “Public policies to support a creative environment”.

O primeiro fórum dedicado a gestores de centros criativos de toda a Europa.
Um evento dedicado a apoiar negócios criativos através de novos mercados, novas oportunidades e uma rede de contactos internacionais.

Uma organização conjunta do British Countil e ADDICT Creative Industries Portugal, que conta com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa como City Partner

 

The first dedicated forum for Creative Hub Managers from across the EU and beyond.

A one-stop-shop for those dedicated to supporting creative businesses through new markets, new models, new opportunities and an international network.

Organised by British Council and ADDICT Creative Industries Portugal with Lisbon City Hall, as the official European Creative Hubs Forum City Partner

Registration

Opening Plenary Welcome: Creative Hubs - a call to action!

Hub 360º: Introduction to Watershed, PM Studio and its partners.

Preparing for the Manifesto, the Hub Manager Leadership Programme, the Resident Visitor Programme and other activities

Training and Professional Development for Hub and Cluster Managers: An Overview of Key Issues

Networking Lunch

The currency of artists in organisations

Info session on Living Labs

Capacity Building & Peer Learning: Intitutional Partnerships

Coffee Break

Capacity Building & Peer-Learning: Promotion and Selection

Cross-Innovation #ingredients & interaction with non-creative sectors

Tech will save us! Using technology in non-tech Hubs.

Selling OUT! How to successfully conduct Hub Outreach.

Targetted Hub Manager Speed Meetings

ECHF Keynote Speeches featuring Colin Burns, BBC Future Media, and Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Factoría Cultural.

ECHF Lisbon '15 Delegates will join over 300 Portuguese arts professionals in a networking party to remember.

Networking Breakfast

Day Two Plenary: Can a joint Creative Hubs Manifesto help with advocacy and strategic promotion highlighting the importance of Creative Hubs? Positioning the Forum narratives based on the participation of Hub Managers. 

Moderator: Catherine Docherty, Ben Evans

Speakers: Johanna Bolhoven, Creative England; David Furmage, Cluster 2020 

 

 

EU Funding Sessions: Creative Europe

Public Funding Plenary: Introduction and overview to EU Funding

EU Funding Sessions: SME Support programmes.

Coffee Break

EU Funding Sessions: Interreg

The Creative Industries in Germany: municipal and regional structures.

EU Funding Sessions: Erasmus +

Moderator: Teresa Cabral Moncada, Erasmus + 

Networking Lunch

Informal Design Hub Networking Meet-Up

Informal Video Games & Serious Gaming Hub Networking Meet-up

Private Funding for Hubs and their Tenants: An overview of the different types of available funding.

Case Studies / Hub 360º: Fabrica (Treviso, Italy); Nova Iskra (Belgrade, Serbia).

Do you speak «Bank»? What is Venture Capital?

 

Lisbon Creative City: Lisbon City Council presents a selection of Lisbon Hubs

European Incentives & ECIA Findings Presentation

Coffee Break

First-hand experience on Co-Working spaces becoming Creative Hubs

Codebase & Stipso: Tech Success Stories

ADDICT presents a selection of Portuguese Creative Hubs 

Do you speak «Bank»? And do you believe in Angels?

End of Day 2 Plenary: Update on the Manifesto and other Forum inputs, in preparation of tomorrow's outcomes and breakout sessions.

 Lisbon Creative Hub visit to Village Underground Lisboa.

Networking Breakfast

The Renaissance Hub Manager!

Mystery Session!

Mapping Survey Visualisation

Open Project Pitches

A Leadership Programme for Hub Management

Building Connectivity: discussing the creation of a bottom-up Creative Hub Manager Talent Exchange Programme for "Resident Visitors"

Shareable Cities #mapjam

Closing Plenary: A Manifesto for Creative Hubs in Europe

Farewell Lunch

Free Networking for Bilateral Project Development

European Creative Hubs Forum has negotiated special rates at the following hotels:

The first day at the ECHF explores infrastructures, business models and services provided by Creative Hubs. What are some of the different Hub models? What training and professional development is available for Creative Hub Managers? How can tech or cross-innovation support all the businesses in a Creative Hub?

The day finishes with both inspiration and provocation in our keynote speeches, followed by a networking party with hundreds of Portugal’s Creative and Cultural businesses and organisations. Bring your dancing shoes!

The second day at the ECHF is focussed on the money! Have you ever wondered how to access EU funding? Are you curious but scared about working with private investors? Today is all about empowering Hub Managers to be in a better position to advise their member businesses, but also to fund their own organisation’s sustainable future.

Add to that some 360° views of exciting hubs and an optional tour of one of Lisbon’s most dynamic organisations, and you’ll understand why we make the coffee strong and black in Portugal!

The third day at the ECHF looks to the future as the Forum starts to focus on what Creative Hub Managers need from each other and from external organisations, policies, and infrastructures. Today you can pitch a project, help write a manifesto for Europe’s Creative Hubs, design a Professional Development programme or an International Hub Manager Exchange programme, and state what you need from a practical toolkit for Hub Managers.

Public Funding Q&A

In order to understand the hub model, it’s first of interest to look at the overall ecology in which it exists. In our first European Creative Hubs Forum session we heard from the funder (Arts Council England), the delivery body (Watershed) and the creative producer (artist, Duncan Speakman). 

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One of the few sector-focused moments in a forum that was meant to raise generalist and cross-sectorial topics, the video games free networking moment attracted a handful of dedicated and interested participants that engaged in a very absorbing and interesting conversation.