Follower Policy Workshop within RESTART_4Danube Boosting Creative Industries in Urban Regeneration for a Stronger Danube Region Project was conducted.

On April 22, 2021, 10.00 (Kiev Time) a Follower Policy Workshop within RESTART_4Danube Boosting Creative Industries in Urban Regeneration for a Stronger Danube Region Project was conducted.

The event was organized by Informational Centre for Innovation and Development “NOVUM” together with Uzhgorod City Council in zoom on-line platform. The second Follower Policy Workshop under the RESTART_4Danube project is co-financed by European Union funds, within the Danube transnational program, Appeal 3, priority 1, specific objective 1.1 - Improving the framework conditions for innovation.

The partnership comprises 25 project partners coming from 12 countries and is coordinated by University “Politehnica” from Bucharest, Romania. The project uses a quadruple helix approach through the collaboration of 11 public authorities, 7 companies &business support organizations, 4 higher education & research institutions and 3 civil society actors. The countries participating to the RESTART_4Danube project next to Romania are Germany, Slovenija, Croatia, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia, and Estonia.

The workshop was opened by Vasyl Pynzenyk, Deputy Head of Uzhgorod City Council and Oleksandr Bilak, Head of Department of European Integration Cooperation, Zakarpattya Regional State Administration.

Topics covered in the workshop:

• Presentation of RESTART_4Danube project.
• Results of the regional study "Danubian baseline study"
• Uzhgorod Institute of Culture and Arts as a Center of CCIs of the region.
• Development of film industry in Zakarpattya
• Advertising, marketing and PR as a type of economic activity in the field of creative industries.
• Good practices for strengthening the creative cultural industry
• Discussion