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ABOUT THE CREATIVE COLLABORATION PROJECT

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Creative Industries are those industries that have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property.

The Creative Industries are the fastest growing sector of the UK’s economy. They already outperform traditional sectors such as agriculture and car manufacturing. But what are the creative industries, how are they defined and why is the growth of the sector important to the UK? Could it be of importance to the Macedonian Economy as well? What about the wider, regional importance? We are trying to answer these and many other questions with our Creative Collaboration project.

CREATIVE COLLABORATION
Creative Collaboration is designed as a 3 year project for South East Europe(SE Europe) and neighbouring countries. The project will build networks of influence for the UK, nurture intercultural dialogue through creative collaboration across borders and promote the quality of UK arts education and training in SE Europe. It will also engage UK cultural producers, artists and policy advisers in dialogue with the region. 

PROJECT ACTIVITIES
The project will deliver outputs through four product strands – Networking, Skills development, The Space and Collaborative Productions:

			The Space - Creative Collaboration takes place through Open Space events in several cities in the South East Europe region: 1) November 2007- Istanbul (Turkey). Macedonia was represented by three delegates: Iskra Geshoska (Tochka Cultural Centre), Biljana Tanurovska (Lokomotiva Centre for New Initiatives in Art and Culture) and Gordana Vrencoska (European University Macedonia). Central to this event was the use of Open Space Technology. 2) May 2008 – Bucharest (Romania). Our delegates Bojan Karanakov and Aleksandar Radevski, junior professors from the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje, took part in the discussion topic “Who shapes the city and for whom?” Urbanism issues and the content of urban life were central topics to this Open Space event. 3) May 2008 – Athens (Greece). Antoanela Petkovska, PhD and Konstantin Minoski, Sociology professors from the Faculty of Sociology, took on the discussion on the topic of Inclusion of Art and Culture in our societies. A number of project ideas came out as a result of this Open Space.
			Networking -Building and sustaining networks for dialogue and debate across the arts communities of SE Europe and the UK. Networking began in Istanbul and we will support its development in the next phases of the Creative Collaboration project.;
			Skills Development - Skills development programme for artists, cultural producers and creative entrepreneurs for SE Europe participants. First, we plan to asses the needs for skills development across the region and then deliver training where needed.;
			Collaborative Productions - Cross-border collaborative productions involving artists in three or more countries and requiring solutions to the mobility of arts and artists across the region. Newly developed skills will be applied in these productions.