European Cultural and Creative Industries Summit (ECCI)
Cultural and creative industries 2009 / Photo: Natalie Burba
The creative economy generates 2.6 percent of GDP in Europe and employs six million people. It's high time, therefore, that we asked ourselves what makes creativity a future-compatible model for the economy as a whole. What measures must we take to adapt our educational systems accordingly? These and similar questions provide the focus of the European Cultural and Creative Industries Summit.
It is the first Brussels platform for dialogue between politics and the creative economy and its goal is to improve the legal, economic and social conditions underlying this innovative growth industry. Once per year, RUHR.2010 discusses the latest developments within the cultural and creative economy with leading European representatives of the creative sector and the political world. Workshops consolidate the experiences gained by those working in this cutting-edge industry. They are also used for formulating demands to be made to politicians and for nurturing political visions.
"Digital Shift" was the key topic of the summit in 2009. In 2010 it is "Education". RUHR.2010 is establishing its role as a think-tank and driving force for the cultural and creative economy of Europe. And as such, it is continuing the work of North Rhine-Westphalia as the German state with the longest tradition of creative industry.
The Summit is supported by a Steering Committee comprising esteemed representatives of leading European creative centres and research programmes: Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Creative Industries Conference, UK; Civic Agenda UK; arge creativ wirtschaft, Vienna; Prof. Perluigi Sacco, Venice; Prof. Andy Pratt, London; Centre for Regional Economic Development, Copenhagen; CIDA, Huddersfield; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Turku Foundation 2011; Creative City Area Amsterdam; Association for Intercultural Dialogue & Interdisciplinary Art, Istanbul; Swedish Creative Industries, Stockholm; CEE Music Conference, Budapest; Košice - European Capital of Culture 2013.
Some 250 delegates from 14 European nations attended the Summit in 2009, while for 2010, the Steering Committee is expecting participants from 20 European countries. The 2009 Summit was part of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation organised by the EU Commission.
June 2010
Brussels