2012-05-29
Policy Handbook by the EU Commission for strategic Funding
How to strategically use the EU support programmes, including Structural Funds, to foster the potential of culture for local, regional and national development and the spill-over effects on the wider economy? The objective of the Policy Handbook is to better sensitize local, regional and national authorities as well as the cultural community of the potential of cultural and creative industries in boosting regional and local development. The Handbook intends to help them in formulating local, regional and national strategies for cultural and creative industries. It also aims to serve as a tool for the planning and implementation of a strategic use of the EU support programmes, including the Structural Funds, to foster the potential of culture for local, regional, national development and the spill-over effects on the wider economy.
It highlights a number of examples which prove that different public authorities have found effective ways to set up working mechanisms to support the CCIs, and in most cases they have been successful in using the EU Structural Funds for that purpose. The Handbook will hopefully serve as an inspiration for those regions and countries that have not yet succeed ed in implementing cultural and creative strategies. As the EU budget for 2014-2020 is being discussed at the very moment, the experts also hope that specific measures presented in the Handbook can be directly inserted into the national development plans and local or regional development strategies.
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