KEA's TOUR DE FORCE

KEA Thinking ...

• Triggered EU-China relationship on Creative industries

• Successful lobby to block a merger in the music industry (2000)

• Proposed the setting up of EFAD – European Film Agency Directors

• Wrote major Studies :

"Use of Structural Funds for Cultural Projects" - study prepared for the European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education - July2012
"Match-fixing in Europe - a mapping of criminal law provisions in EU 27" (March 2012)

Coming soon- study on the transfer of players

“The Economy of Culture in Europe” (2006)
“The Impact of Culture on Creativity” (2009)
“VOD and Multi-territory licensing” (2010)

KEA Creating ...

• Lead expert of the URBACT project, Creative SpIN for the city of Birmingham involving 10 European cities, ranking number 2 of the 19 selected projects managing a process to stimulate Creative Spillovers in cities

•Advisor to the City of Mons to measure the impact of Mons European Capital of Culture 2015

•Consortium builder and writer of the winning application for the European Creative Industries Alliance (ECIA)

•Open letter to the European Commission on Private Copying (2006) signed by Film Directors - Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, Dardenne brothers, Lars von Trier, Costas Gavras, Nanni Moretti, Mike Leigh (all Oscars or Palm d’Or winners)

• Raised € 1.2 million EuropeAid funding for an Art organization

• Raised € 4 million Interreg funding for ECCE Innovation

• Set up Impala in 2000 - the trade body representing independent record companies (1500 members) and WIN (19 countries)

• United the members and prepared the bid for the winning consortium that will run the European Creative Industry Alliance Policy Platform (2011)

KEA Communicating ...

Organised debates on the European project :
• With Arsène Wenger (2004)
• With Fabrice Hybert, Richard Seymour and Ju Row Farr (2009)
• With Rem Koolhaas and Luc Tuymans (2011)

 

Set up “Creative Europe” Social Media network