“Ideas, Suggestions and Good Practices for the Promotion of the Cultural and Creative Industry”

On November 30, a Training Seminar of the project Local Clusters & Social Enterprises Incubators in the Fields of Culture / Tourism & Folk Tradition (InClust) was held on ” Ideas, Suggestions and Good Practices for the Promotion of the Cultural and Creative Industry “.

The event started with the presentation of the Creative Collaborative Formation of Arta “Arta’s Creative Cluster” and the Branding of the Arta area for the field of Cultural & Creative Industry by Mr. Konstantinos Economopoulos, (Creative Consultant, SOCIETY 3/3 AMKE). Then Mr. Elias Servetas, Operations Manager, Head of Planning & ICT Department, Municipality of Nikolaos Skoufas) presented actions, results and experiences from the implementation of the project ‘OLIVE_CULTURE’. Then followed Mrs Dina Antoniou, (Project Coordinator, Municipality of Grevena), who presented actions, results and experiences from the implementation of the project “IT CULTURE”. Afterwards, Mr. George Rados (Deputy Mayor of Education, Culture, Tourism and European Programs, Municipality of Zitsa) emphasized the actions, results and experiences from the implementation of the ‘CULTURAL LANDS’ project.

After the light lunch break, the presentation of THEMA project and the Program “Cultural Route to the Ancient Theaters of Epirus” was made by Mr. Aristotelis Stagikas, (Economist, MBA, Epirus SA), and Kitsaki Georgia, (Historian, Msc, Epirus SA), to be followed by the presentation of actions, goals and experiences from the implementation of the project “SPARC – Creativity Hubs for Sustainable Development through the VAloRization of Cultural Heritage Assets” by Ms. Katerina Zisimopoulou, (Project Team Representative, Region of Western Greece). Then, emphasis was given by Mrs. Polyxeni Mantzou, (Professor of Architecture and Communication Manager of PALIMPSEST, University of Ioannina) in the actions, goals and experiences from the implementation of the project “PALIMPSEST – Post ALphabetical Interactive Museum using Participatory, Space-Embedded, Story-Telling”.

The event ended with the presentation of the next actions and activities related to the “Arta’s Creative Cluster” by Ms. Emilia Kokkineli, (Head of Mapping ‘Inclust’, and Mr. Christos Konstantinidis, (Head of Incubator Operation ‘Inclust’, Amvrakia Development Company of Arta Chamber).

An open discussion followed after the end of the presentations.