Involved, since 2003, in a strong territorial cooperation, six regional authorities wanted to go further on an innovative issue: human capital in a knowledge-based economy. The cultural and creative sector is a key sector in this framework. Important new job sector, this sector is indeed a knowledge-intensive sector strongly linked to creativity, innovation and ICT. Moreover, it favours the development of new skills closely related to the employability in a knowledge-based economy. Including six new partners (technical, scientific and political expert), the Tool Quiz project aims at developing strategies, policies and tools linking the cultural and creative sector to the knowledge-based economy and employability in each partner Region.
The project is based on five working phases:
Identification phase where partners identify, analyse and evaluate good practices in their Regions using a joint methodological and conceptual framework.
Exchange phase ensuring the exchange of identified good practices, an in-depth analysis of their development conditions, and a diagnostic of each region situation,
Capitalisation phase ensuring the capitalisation of public policies and regional analysis;
Transfer feasibility phase studying the transfer of these practices within each partner Region, targeting the most relevant ones;
Experimentation phase enabling the testing of selected good practices. These phases will result in concrete tools for policy makers based on a better knowledge of the cultural and creative sector’s characteristics and of regional specificities. In the long term the project contributes to strengthening sector as a key sector of the knowledge-based economy.
