The Creative Cities project launched by the British Council in March 2007 was successfully completed in spring 2011. A British Council’s project team hopes that knowledge and experience gained by the participants will help them turn their cities into better places to live, work and play.

Creative Cities aimed to share experience across Europe on the ways in which creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation could improve people’s lives. The project covered a wide range of issues including: public spaces, arts and social activities, and policy-making.

Over the three year period the British Council working closely with its partners organised 20 various events: business games, seminars, workshops, architectural competition – engaging wide range of city dwellers from Kyiv, Lviv, Melitopol, Odesa, Vinnytsya, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol and Severodonetsk.

All the informational data gathered during the project is available online at creativecities.org.ua in Ukrainian. There are also instructions, methodologies and reports of the Future City Game – one of the central elements of the project.

You can learn from the experience of other European countries participants of the Creative Cities project by visiting creativecities.britishcouncil.org which is in English.

Partners

The main partner for the project: the Centre for Urban History of Central and Eastern Europe, Lviv.

Co-organisers and city partners:

			Lviv City Council
			Melitopol City Council
			Democracy Through Culture, NGO
			Kyiv Organisation of National Union of Architects of Ukraine
			Vinnytsya City Council and the City Mayor
			Institute for Urban Development (Vinnytsya)
			'Mriya' Euroclub (Severodonetsk)
			Junior City Activists, NGO (Yevpatoriya)
			Khersoneskiye Igry, NGO (Sevastopol)
			Agency for Economic Development (Sevastopol)
			Quality of Life, NGO (Odesa)