The Oresund Region as a creative metapol

The project contributes to fulfilling: priority 2: tying the region together

Lead Partner: Herlev Kommune

Partners: Albertslund, Frederiksberg, Køge, Ballerup, Hvidovre and Furesø municipalities (DK), Region Skåne (SP), Höör, Hörby, Kristianstad, Simrishamn, Hässleholm, Lund, Malmö municipalities (SE) samt Copenhagen Business School, Roskilde University and Malmö Högskola.

Project Period: 1 October 2008 - 30 September 2011

Total Budget: 1 870 949 EUR

EU Grant: 930 739 EUR

Project Coordinator: Søren Buhl Hornskov

E-mail: sbh@herlevbibliotek.dk

Phone: +45 21 16 49 23

Website: www.kreativ-metapol.net

The big challenge for the region and the local authorities is to develop strategies and competencies towards establishing new and innovative platforms and crossovers across the Sound – partnerships between creative industries, culture, planning, municipalities, research, education and the civil society – if to progress in binding the region together. The project is about how to do this, and works with four tracks:

1. Competence development

1. Cultural Planning Workshops
2. Art in Leadership and Management
3. Master Classes

2. Knowledge networks

3. Innovative model projects

1. Child and youth culture
2. The city stage
3. Culture and health/wellnesss
4. Crossover culture and creative indistries

4. Mapping the creative industries

The vision of the project is to create and facilitate a number of concrete networks, partnerships and platforms, which will lead to concrete results as well as generalized effects in form of training, tools and transfer of knowledge.

Project Coordinator

Søren Buhl Hornskov

sbh@herlevbibliotek.dk

+45 21 16 49 23