1. CreativeMED
Project Overview
Besnik Mehmeti
Municipality of Prato
cmed@comune.prato.it

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CreativeMED
MED Programme
• EU transnational
cooperation programme
among the “Territorial
Cooperation objective”
• partners from 13 countries
including the whole
Northern Mediterranean
seacoast working together
to strengthen the
competitiveness,
employment and
sustainable development

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CreativeMED
Capitalisation
 To shed a critical and analytical eye on past and
current experiences of the MED Programme and
of the projects in order to gain insight and
improve practices during the current
programming period.
 To feed future actions and strategies for the next
programming period 2014-2020, also
considering emergening trends, challenges,
debates (including macro-region perspectives)
and the EU 2020 strategy.

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CreativeMED
Project outcomes?

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CreativeMED
Projects
 SMILIES: supporting innovative SMEs
 MEDLAB: Living Labs for regional policy
 TEXMEDIN: innovation mixes in fashion
 CHORD: cultural heritage poles
 SOSTENUTO: culture, creativity, innovation
 MedGovernance, CentraLab, Alcotra, MEDINS,
Periphèria...

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CreativeMED
Partnership
IT - Municipality of Prato
IT - Consorzio ARCA
GR - Region of Central Macedonia
GR - Business Dev. Agency of Rethymnon CCI
GR - Union of Hellenic Chambers of Commerce
SI - E-Zavod, Institute for Comprehensive Dev. Solutions
ES - University of Valencia (Economics)
ES - Chamber of Commerce of Seville
PT - University of Evora (History)
CY - Larnaca District Development Agency
FR - French Agency of Sustainable Mediterranean Cities and Territories
HR - Brodarski Institute

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CreativeMED
CreativeMED
Develop a framework for bottom-up Smart
Specialisation based on
cultural anchoring,
open network organizations,
innovation mixes,
collective learning, and
shared values

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CreativeMED
Policy Learning
Policy Learning approach to capitalisation:
 developing a draft policy model
 co-developing it’s implementation potential

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CreativeMED
Work Groups
 Policy Makers
 EU, Regional and National levels
 Right now drafting S3 strategies
 Local and Regional Actors
 In or out of tune with regional policy
 Applying cultural and business models in practice
 Expert Community
 Shaping opinion on policy futures and options
 Drawing up and managing innovation projects

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CreativeMED
Key Outputs
 White Paper
 Targeted to EU, national and regional levels
 Recommendations for policy programming
 On-line toolkit and guidelines
 Supporting take-up among local and regional
actors

11. Thank you for your
attention
Besnik Mehmeti
Municipality of Prato
cmed@comune.prato.it