UPDATE HIGHTLIGHTS
We have advised on a range of issues related to the cultural and creative
sectors:
STRATEGIC ADVICE
Local development
Developed for Nantes an INTERREG application with Eindhoven, Birmingham,
Stuttgart, Aachen, Cardiff, Dublin and Huddersfield (CIDA). The project
launched a network of cities aiming at developing the innovation potential
of creative industries through cross-sectoral linkages.
Developed a strategy of local economic development based on cultural and creative industries for the Biscay region (Spain).
Competition and internal market policy
Advised a French SME in the energy sector.
Worked with music companies in a high profile media merger before the
European Commission and the European Court of Justice.
Multilingualism and EU language policy
Provided strategic adivse on EU affairs to a European network to promote
linguistic diversity in Europe, and minotiry and regional languages in
particular.
Cultural and Audiovisual policy
A national public body in charge of Film policy, on its European strategy.
A rights management organisation in the audiovisual sector.
Sport policy
Advised a European sport association on sport media rights.
EU FUNDING
Helped
develop a national video-on-demand platform towards a pan-European perspective.
Development of ECCE Innovation, an Interreg project (4 million Euro) launching
a network of European cities focusing on creative industries.
Raised 1.2 million Euro from EuropeAid for a film project to celebrate
the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
Designed Multilingual Early Language Transmission, a Comenius
(Lifelong Learning Programme) project focussing on language transmission
processes and supporting multilingualism at preschool level.
MAIN STUDIES
The Impact of Culture on Creativity (DG EAC )
The
Economy of Culture in Europe (European Commission, DG EAC)
Impact Assessment
of the Conditional Access Directive (European Commission, DG Markt)
Private Copying
Exception in the field of Copyright and Technical Protection Measures
(Belgian Federal Ministry for Economy)
The Collective
Management of Rights in Europe - The Quest for Efficiency (European Parliament)
Cultural Tax
Credits in 27 OECD countries (Ministère de la Culture et de la
Communication, France)
The State
of Community Media in the European Union (European Parliament)
EVENTS
EGEDA
event at the European Parliament seminar "New potential, new opportunites,
the way forward for the European Film Industry"
ECSITE, European
Network of Science Centres and museums, event at the European Parliament
combining a 1 day conference and 2-day science exhibition. Title: Science
Communicators advancing European knowledge society.
Untitled-Sans
Titre - Debate involving French Artist Fabrice Hyber and Brisith Designer
Richard Seymour on "Are we going back to the Renaissance model?"
ASSOCIATION MANAGEMENT
Association
management of a network of European film companies - EFCA (www.efcasite.org).
Provided strategic
support for management of the Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
(Communication, project management, advocacy etc).
SPEAKING AND MODERATING
Regions
Seminar for regional politicians responsible for culture, environment
and regional development, Gothenburg (Sweden) – January 2008
Seminar North Rhine Westphalia, Culture and Creative Economy, July 2008,
European Capital of Culture 2010 - Essen
Panel with Cultural Committee of the City of Stavanger (Norway) in Brussels. Presentation of the impact of culture on local development - Sept. 2008
First Congress of Cultural Industries of Social Economy in Andalusia - Oct. 2008
Presentation on EU policy and Creative Urban Hubs for the Urbact Network "Creative Clusters in Low-density Urban areas", Obidos, Portugal - Jan. 2009
Cine Regio presentation on The contribution of Regional Film Funds to Cohesion, Cultural Diversity, Growth and Creativity, Berlin, Germany - Feb. 2009
Creative Industries in the Ruhr Metropole, Duisburg, Germany - June 2009
Presentation to the European Association of Regions, briefing on Creativity and Culture, presentation of The Impact of Culture on Creativity - June 2009
Panel with cultural officers of Spanish regional representations in Brussels.
Presentation of the study on the Impact of Culture on Creativity -
June 2009
European Parliament
Workshop on cultural diversity - July 2008
China-EU relations and creative industries - July 2008
European Commission
Presentation of the Creativity Index at European Commission conference on "Can creativity be measured?", Brussels - May 2009
EU Presidencies
French Presidency conference Creative Content Online, September 2008
Czech Republic - EU Presidency Forum for a Creative Europe, presentation of the study The impact of Culture on Creativity.
International
First EU-China Cultural Industries Forum, Shenzhen, Chine - May 2009
CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum, Bridgetown, Barbados - November 2008
Industry
Creating Futures Conferences: Building Ireland's Cultural and Creative
Economy - Keynote speech on The Economy of Culture in Europe,
Dublin, Ireland - Oct. 2008
Participation in Experts panel - Presentation towards a creative Europe - EU policy and the creative industries, Glasgow, Scotland - Nov. 2008
Launch event of the Creative Growth project - presentation on the creative economy in Europe, Brussels - Jan. 2009
International Council Dramatic, Literary and Audiovisual Creators (CISAC) - Presentation of the Impact of EU Regulations on Authors, Krakow, Poland - April 2009
European Creativity Dialogue, Stuttgart, Germany - May 2009
Presentation of the Study on the Lithuanian audiovisual sector's participation in EU support programmes, Vilnius, Lithuania - June 2009
Conference "Creative Industries: Culture, Business, Innovation" - presentation on the impact of Culture on Creativity, Lodz, Poland - June 2009
EGEDA conference, Presentation on Intellectual Property and New Media, Madrid, Spain - June 2009
Participation in experts panel at the Europa Distribution conference, presentation of the study Multi-territory licensing for online content, Paris, France - July 2009
