Deadline: 14-Sep-20
The European Commission has announced a Call for Proposals for Pilot Project “Measuring the Cultural and Creative Sectors in the EU”.
The EU has strong and vibrant cultural and creative industries. These are not only essential for Europe’s cultural diversity, strengthening social cohesion and increasing Europe’s attractiveness internationally. They are also one of the continent’s most dynamic sectors.
However, there are still data missing at EU level for many indicators and sectors, and only those data would allow quantifying the full economic value of the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS). Moreover, the last 20 years have witnessed great technological changes impacting the CCS: in particular the digitalisation of the sectors, the arrival of big multinational platforms, the possibility of uploading cultural content by users that is commercially exploited. There have also been significant changes to the structure of the sectors, such as the growth of video games developing and publishing companies and increase in virtual reality production. Further significant developments are expected in the next 15 years, and all these changes are very loosely captured in the current statistical system.
Objectives
The project’s main objective is to elaborate, through the proposed research, a statistical framework for measuring the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) in the EU, building on Eurostat’s already existing and planned work and classification.
This framework would enable regular statistical analysis of the economic, cultural and social potential of the CCS in Europe. This objective should be reached through an extensive overview of data sources available at international, national and industry level and through further research proposals on how to fill those data gaps that cannot be covered through existing data sources.
Expected Results
The expected results of the proposal are:
- definition of ‘Cultural and creative sectors’, in terms of codes of international statistical classifications, in line with Eurostat’s work;
- improved statistics on cultural and creative sectors, taking into account all possible sources of comparable data;
- new methodology for capturing on-line services;
- new statistical framework that would enable regular statistical analysis of the economic, cultural and social potential of the CCS in Europe;
- Updated estimation of the figures on: the contribution CCS to GDP, contribution of CCS to EU employment, EU exports and imports of cultural services, and others.
Funding Information
- The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects foreseen under this call for proposals is 350,000 EUR.
- The duration of the project shall be 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, applicants must be a single entity with proven record of at least 5 years in specialized data/statistical analysis and or economic modeling, of which at least 2 years in CCS, or a consortium of which at least one of its members has proven expertise on economic data/statistics in the cultural and creative sectors of at least 5 years. Proposals may be submitted by any of the following applicants:
- non-profit organization (private or public);
- public authorities (national, regional, local);
- international organizations;
- universities;
- educational institutions;
- research centers;
- profit making entities
Natural persons are not eligible to apply for a grant under this call.
For more information, visit https://ec.europa.eu/culture/calls/pilot-project-measuring-cultural-and-creative-sectors-eu