E C B N ’s A n n u a l R e p o r t 2 0 1 4

In 2014 ECBN:

Published our Manifesto for Internationalisation

Hosted the ECBN Policy Forum in Brussels (50+ attendees) including representation from DG Culture, DG Connect, and DG Enterprise

Ran a H2020 study tour in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium (40+ attendees) and helped our members find new partners to access these funds, working with Creative England and the Knowledge Transfer Network

Took Creative Centres on a London study tour (40+ attendees)

Hosted a board and funding meeting at the ECIA Closing Conference in Amsterdam

Wrote responses to DG Connect + DG Enterprise to help shape major policy initiatives

Launched our new website and blog with new opinion pieces to help shape the European creative industries agenda

Partnered with EUCLID to offer our members free access to their online funding seminars

Completed a research partnership with students at the Rotterdam Business School, looking at the evidence around approaches to internationalisation

Represented ECBN at over twenty events and seminars in Brussels, Kosice, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Vienna...

Welcomed three new board members: Forum d’Avignon (FR), Creative Nodes (SE), Wired Sussex (UK), and the Flemish Department of Culture, Youth, Sports and Media (BE)

In 2015 we will:

Launch our pioneering mapping of Europe’s Creative Hubs at the Creative Hubs Forum in Portugal, with the British Council

Host a seminar on sustainability in the creative industries with Julie’s Bicycle and the Knowledge Transfer Network

Host a new, refreshed, and more ambitious policy forum: The EU Creative Industries Forum

Launch our new, quarterly online policy briefings to keep our members up to date

Deliver Innocreate, a new H2020 project that will strengthen our communications, with partners such as MfG, Technoport, EBN and CKO

Continue our work on eCreative, helping make cultural heritage content available to the creative industries

The ECBN Policy Forum

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London Creative Centres Study Tour

Successful delivery of the eCreative project

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