INKU – cluster for creative industry in Szczecin Media Dizajn INKU – cluster for creative industry in Szczecin Monika Tomczyk PhD Monika Spychalska PhD

About Media Dizajn Media Dizajn associates around 100 members from Westpomerania region : Startups and small and medium companies University and Academia of Art Public Bodies Support organizations

Media Dizajn was created in 2009 to boost creativity and raise awarness about CI in Szczecin Metropolitan city.

About Media Dizajn/Incubator Since 2011 we start incubation process for non profit companies and NGOs in field of culture and creativity in the first starting phase. We cooperate with City Council since then.

We get together representatives of: Creative companies Public bodies: City council of Szczecin and Marshal office of Westpomern Voivodship Academia: University of Szczecin and Academy of Art

Our activities: Networking of companies Support of companies in internationalization Support of companies in cross innovation proces Workshops and suport We put together comapnies with diefferent expetise to make creative projects possible.

We conduct project on national and international level to boost creative Industry in our region.

Bodied from DE, LT, SE and DK CREATIVE TRADITIONAL COMPANIES COOPERATION Increasing cooperation between Creative industry and the blue (maritime-led) and green (ecological, environmentally-friendly technologies-led) sector for development and launch of new innovative products, processes and services in our region - cross innovation project. We cooperate with public and private Bodied from DE, LT, SE and DK

Creative Port Through joining competences and increased cooperation between the project target groups, i.e. CCI public authorities and CCI business support organisations on vertical and horizontal levels in the participating regions, the project sets its main objective to support sustainable growth of the CCI sector in the BSR. The sub-aims of the project are:

Creative Port 1) increasing the understanding of CCI public authorities in terms of CCI sustainable development and providing thematic expertise and content for Capacity Building programmes for business support organisations in terms of entrepreneurial skills and efficiency in innovation development for CCI companies, internationalisation support services, information seminars on appropriate financial schemes and support programs

Creative Port 2) facilitating CCI business activities through evidence-based pilot implementation, i.e. the conversion of industrial areas into usable CCIs quarters and developing a CCIexperts’ database; 3) promoting CCI internationalisation and improving cooperation between CCI public authorities in the participating regions through matching of regional interests, potentials and priorities in the CCI sector and the organisation of crossover matchmaking events;

Creative Ports 4) enhancing quality, transferability, scalability and accessibility of the project outputs and results for public authorities and business support organisations. We cooperate with partners from DE, DK, SE, LT, ES, LV, RU andPL

Design Plus conference Design Plus is an international conference run since 2016 to raise awarness of importance of creative industry for economical growth. The conference is full of good practices as well as workshops to improve perfrormance of Creative Industry. We cooperate with Academy of Art and Marshall Office www.ctcc.net.pl

We network our companies organizing trips to events important for their growth.

We facilitate international events as Global Jams – service design for diefferent branches.

Boosting Innovative Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Young Entrepreneurs.

iEER aims to improve entrepreneurial ecosystems to better support the needs of startups. Project partners will learn from each other in building better services and regional policies to support startups and boost local ecosystems.

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