1. Projects of Creative Centers
Integrated Regional Operational Programme - Priority axis No. 3

2. aims and results PA3 IROP
Thematic Objective No. 8
Supporting sustainable employment and labour force mobility
Priority Axis No. 3 IROP
Mobilizing creative potential in the regions
Specific Objective No 3.1
Stimulating the promotion of sustainable employment and job creation in the CCI by creating a conducive environment for the development of creative talent and non-technological innovation
Centralised Support
Development of creative talent, business spirit and support of non-technological innovation with the use of digital technologies and fostering demand for creative work (emerging talents)
The Main Result of Support
Job creation in the cultural and creative industry
Other results of support
Preparation for the labour market or for starting up businesses and assertion in the market environment
New contacts
Business support
Preferential conditions for renting of the working premises, including a technological base
The professionalization of the working environment of natural persons and entities in CCI
Skills and know-how for the implementation of innovations

3. Creative and cultural industries
Core Creative Arts
Cultural Heritage, Archives and Libraries
Visual Arts
Performing Arts
Cultural Education
Handicrafts
Cultural Industries
Literature and Print Media
Music, Audio-Visuals and Multimedia
Creative Industries
Design
Architecture
Advertising

4. 40 working places Eligible Applicants/Partners Target groups
Local Government Entities - Cities, Municipalities, Higher Territorial Units
Budgetary and Subsidised Organisations established by Local Government Entities
Budgetary and Subsidised Organisations established by the Central Government Body
Public Colleges / Universities
Non-profit Organisations, Civic Associations
Association of Legal Persons
Target groups
Natural persons who are not entrepreneurs
Natural persons who are entrepreneurs pursuant to special legal regulations – (e.g. writers, inventors, drama and visual artists, authorized architects, restorer of cultural heritage monuments and articles of visual art)
SMEs in cultural industry
Students and graduates of secondary art schools and universities/academies
Non-profit organizations
Unemployed, inactive persons, MRC
Target territory
Indicator - Growth of Employment (per year)
40 working places
More developed region – Bratislava
180 working places (per one CC)
Less developed region – other regions (7)

5. MAJOR ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT
1. Development of Creative Talent, Business Spirit and Support of Non-technological Innovation with the Use of Digital Technologies
1.1. Development of Creative Talent and Skills
1.2. Business Support
1.3. Support of the Access to the Markets
1.4. Networking Support  
1.5. Building a Specific Development Infrastructure within the CC
1.6. Support of Establishment and Management of the CC
2. Fostering Demand for Creative Work (Emerging Talents)
Supportive activities of the project:
Project Managment
Publicity and Informedness
Public Procurement
Preparation of Application
for Non-refundable Financial
Contribution
Amount of support
Activities
1.5.
50 % Infrastructure
(Of which 60 % is for the reconstruction of the building and 40 % is for procurement of technologies)
1.1. – 1.4.
1.6. 2
50 % Soft Activities

6. Activity 1 1.1. Development of Creative Talent and Skills
Open workshops
Open for general public, people above 18 interested in CCI.
Workshops are oriented on development of creative talent and skills, that are essential for working at cultural and creative industry.
Open innovative studio
Professional advisory consultation and documentation information centre oriented on innovation and the use of artistic and cultural creative ICT technologies.
It will function in cooperation with the creative incubator and independently for external users – creative professionals.
Internships at entities operating in CCI

7. Activity 1 1.2. Business Support Creative incubator
Oriented on natural persons who are not entrepreneurs yet and are willing to establish their own enterprise.
Consulting service and training courses, e.g. principles of budgeting projects, preparing business plans, professional approaches in business, marketing
Rental of working space and technologies under preferential conditions
Access to co-working space
Creative accelerator
Oriented on support of existing creative entrepreneurs that are already operating in CCI (SME).
1. Creative accelerator for beginning enterpreneurs
- SME up to three years after the start of its activity. Complex services cover all the needs of a beginning eneterpreneur.
2. Purpose-built/specialized creative accelerator
- Provides services focused on improvements of the functioning of a company in one or two
areas (marketing, how to use new technologies, protection of intellectual property).
3. Complex creative accelerator
- Dedicated to special projects of high potential. Services are focused on improving of existing
business and innovations of the business model and its following expansion to the global
markets.
Budget-priced long-term rental of working space and technologies

8. ACTIVITY 1 1.3. Support of the Access to the Markets
Services supporting the sale of the outcomes of creative work in CC
Online presentation of the work of regional artists
Further presentation of the work at specialised stores or pop-up stores, at CC
Festival support of the activities of CC
Support of the presentation and sale of the outcomes of creative work
Supporting the attendance at the markets, subcontracting fairs and festivals in Slovakia as well as abroad

9. Activity 1 1.4. Networking Support Networking services
Support cross-sectoral cooperation
Building capacities in the form of specific workshops for new skills and knowledge (professional, digital, business)
Exchange of experience and knowledge transfer, including international collaboration
Enhancing the attractiveness of regions for the entry of international creative talents
Giving information on possibilities of networking
Organizing networking events for the members of CC
Networking support of the members of CC

10. Activity 1 1.5. Building a Specific Development Infrastructure of CC
Reconstruction, modernization and renovation of buildings for the purposes of CC
Procurement of technological equipment for the purposes of CC
Administration of infrastructure of new CC
1.6. Support for the Establishment and Management of CC
Adopting the set of rules of Creative Centre
Capacity building of regional participants of CCI
Providing the management of Creative Centre
Rental of working space and technologies for activities of CC (virtual too)

11. Activity 1 Eligible cost Activities 1.1. – 1.4 . Activity 1.5.
1.5. – incur and payment of expenditures first by December
others - from call of application for non-refundable financial contribution and last by December
Activities 1.1. – 1.4 .
Wage costs
Procurement services pertinent to  provide services within realization of activities 1.1 – 1.4
Travel expenses
Supplies (material, low-value tangible assets)
Software
Energy consumption
Activity 1.5.
Reconstruction, modernization and renovation of buildings, enlargement, upper extension, building conversion and reconstruction of the interior and exterior, including technology and interior equipment
Procurement of project documentation
Expenditures for construction supervision
Expenditures for authorial supervision
Contingency reserve
Intellectual property
Long-term tangible and intangible assets
Individual movable assets and sets of movables
Means of transport
Expenditures for administration of infrastructure of CC
Activity 1.6.
Software (for monitoring of CC's activities)
Expenditures for adopting the set of rules of CC, for capacity building of regional participants of CCI, and for providing the management of CC
Rental of working space and technologies for activities of CC (virtual too)
BUILDING
TECHNOLOGY

12. Activity 2 Eligible cost
from call of application for non-refundable financial contribution and last by December
Fostering Demand for Creative Work (Emerging Talents)
Specific types of promotional activities of non-commercial nature
Open presentation workshops focusing on raising awareness of the cultural and creative industries
Specialized events focusing on raising awareness of the cultural and creative industries (conferences, campaigns, parades)
Presentation of CCI and CCI's participants in the region by using of digital commucation tools
Exhibition presentation activities and distribution activities
Continual promotion of CCI's results also on international markets
Eligible cost
Wage costs
Procurement services pertinent to  provide services within realization of activity 2
Travel expenses
Supplies (material, low-value tangible assets)
Software
Energy consumption

13. CC PROJECT PREPARATION
Selection process:
1st round
Feasibility study
Identification of needs, requirements and potentials of the target field
Business model of the regional CC (sources, incomes, costs, activities, target
groups, partnerships)
Implementation of the project of CC (implementation plan, budget)
Assumptions and risks and measures to minimize them
Partnership and coordination mechanisms
Synergies of the project with other activities oriented on development of CCI
Sustainability of the project (cost-benefit analysis)
Note. Preliminary date of the call is set in the first half of 2017
2nd round
Application for non-refundable financial contribution
Prior to applying for non-refundable financial contribution, the invitation to public procurement for all the project activities must be made
Note. Preliminary date of the call is set in the second half of 2017

14. Functioning of CC in time
Planning of CC projects in regions
Virtual CC
Physical CC
Sustainability of CC
Functioning of CC in time
Phase 0
● Mapping of actual capacities, potentials and accessible sources in the field of CCI in the region
● Creation of regional strategy of CCI support
● Selection of regional partners for preparing phase of the project
● Preparation of feasibility study
Phase 1
Phase 2
● Finalization of technical equipment of CC
● Finalization of personal elements of CC and structure of partners
● Providing creative services at the place of CC
Phase 3
● Sustainability of new-created working places is 36 months after the project finalization
● The sustainability of the CC is 10 years from the beginning of providing services (also virtual CC)
● The sustainability of CC from the finalization of the project is 5 years
● Financial finalization of the projects until 2023
● Selection of key participants of CCI in the region, who would be connected to implementation of the project
● Coordination of providing creative services in the region
● Activities run at places of project partners or suppliers, who will be responsible for providing specific services at theirs or at the rented places
5 years
10 years

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