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Creative Youth Empowerment Program: Developing Business Skills in Rural Areas

The project aims to support entrepreneurial culture, boost opportunities for creative youth, and enhance international networking in the creative sector. Utilizing new technologies like online platforms, P2P services, and collaborative tools, it focuses on knowledge and skills development, transnational education, and cooperative productions over distances. With a diverse partnership across seven countries and a budget of 1.84 MEur, the initiative runs from January 2008 to June 2010.

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Creative Youth Empowerment Program: Developing Business Skills in Rural Areas

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  1. BACKGROUND • Creative industries has recently been recognised as a key sector in the fast growing knowledge economy • Rural and remote areas need to harness their cultural skills to develop businesses to maintain viable communities • New technologies in ICT offer the best hope to develop the business skills to compete effectively in the modern global market

  2. OVERALL OBJECTIVES • Support the development of entrepreneurial culture, knowledge and know-how in the creative sector • Increase opportunities for creative young people to share creative work and develop business ideas • Support international networking between creative youth

  3. PROJECT FACTS • Duration: January 2008 – June 2010 • 10 partners • 7 associate partners • 7 countries • Finland, Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Northern Ireland, Scotland • Budget 1,84 MEur

  4. WWW.INCUBIZ.EU • Online service for business incubators and creative people to support business development • Information, knowledge, models and best practices on creative business • Platform for interaction between people and organisations in the NP area

  5. NEW TECHNOLOGIES • Development and experiments of new kinds of ICT services supporting creative youth in distributing and joint-developing their products • P2P service for easy and efficient sharing of large multimedia files • Tips about cooperative production tools supporting co-production over distances • Experimental multi-media wiki tool ‒ an innovative collaborative environment using the wiki concept applied on multimedia documents

  6. NETWORKING AND COOPERATION OVER DISTANCES • Testing the tools available and piloting the new technologies created in NoCry for cooperation over distances • Several international teams, common productions over distances • Feedback, experiences and finalising productions face-to-face

  7. KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, TRAINING • Developing knowledge and skills needed to succeed as an entrepreneur in the creative sector • Experimental network education (Road Tour) • Transnational education material • Transnational and local short courses and workshops

  8. NoCry AT A GLANCE Local incubator Local incubator Local incubator Online platform Business skills Training Workshops Seminars Education Knowledge and skills Networks Contact site Co-productions over distances Face-to-face meetings

  9. MORE INFORMATION Kaj Kostiander Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences Research and Development kaj.kostiander@tokem.fi Tel. +358 40 849 7231 www.creativeyouth.eu www.incubiz.eu

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