Creative and cultural activities are among the oldest forms of human activity. From poetry and sculpture in ancient Greece to today’s online entertainment, they have always been inseparable from human activity. This is why today’s creative industry is one of the most vibrant economic sectors.

The main goal of the Creative Clusters-project is to establish a cross-border cooperation between the creative industries protagonists and local networks of 4 different locations within the SB region.

In the project itself, the development of instruments for an ongoing resp. regular exchange will be developed and established, combining a digital (joint communication platform) and a real-life-approach (annual forums) with each other. Out of the network that is established via these two offers, the creative industry sector protagonists will become aware of relevant activities in other regions, which, again, enables concrete cooperations. Two cross-border cooperation concepts will be specified and tested in the project:

• Creative industry consultancy structure for the ‘normal economy’ and third institutions regarding working structures, project planning and work organisational issues developed in a cross-border exchange
• Merging the expertise compiled in this cross-border network of the creative industry protagonists towards a joint support for local processes (joint development of a 10-year-development strategy for several locations).

And, last but not least, a joint promotion of the SB region’s creative industry sector will be arranged in the project, towards further strengthening the sector’s position towards other industry sectors and presenting the work in the sector as internationally relevant and attractive.