Deadline: 31 January 2017
The European Union-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme is inviting applicants for its Creative Towns and Regions Initiative with an aim to raise awareness of all key stakeholders of the potential of cultural and creative sectors, to collect data on local cultural and creative resources and to propose concrete action plans for developing the cultural and creative industries potential, including development of local cultural landscape, building clusters with local businesses, increasing the quality of offer of the tourism sector and build stronger networks with similar towns and regions in other countries.
Grant Information
The size of the applicants should be (depending on the size of the country) from 15,000 to 250,000 people.
Key Stages
- Open call: identifying six small and medium sized towns or regions with cultural and creative potential ready to pilot the Initiative in their country;
- Developing methodology: developing an assessment methodology with local context;
- Preparing six detailed reports: in collaboration with key local stakeholders carrying out the mapping of local cultural and creative resources and proposing the action plan to develop the cultural and creative potential of the area;
- Developing a long-term network of creative towns and regions: adding value in terms of sharing good practices and knowledge, exchanging professionals and initiating joint projects within the region and with other creative towns and regions in the European Union.
Eligibility Criteria
- The call for expressions of interest is open for small and medium sized towns and regions in the Eastern Partnership countries (mentioned below).
- The notion of small and medium sized places is different in different countries, depending on local traditions and size of the total population.
- The call is open for those municipalities that are not the capital cities of their countries nor major industrial centres with large metropolitan areas.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can send a Letter of Interest signed by representative of local authority, which includes:
- clear motivation why the town/region wants to join the Initiative (up to 1 page);
- overview of the status quo in terms of cultural and creative organisations, spaces and activities in the city/region (up to 2 pages);
- description of how will the local stakeholders be involved in the process (up to 1 page with names of possible organisations, institutions or experts);
- the applicants are encouraged to add links to websites or visual materials (videos, images) to showcase examples of cultural and creative projects, initiatives and urban transformations.
Eligible Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine.
For more information, please visit EU-EAP Culture and Creativity Programme.