BACKGROUNDBACKGROUND

• 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

OVERALL OBJECTIVESOVERALL 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

PROJECT FACTSPROJECT 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

WWW.INCUBIZ.EUWWW.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

NEW TECHNOLOGIESNEW 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

NETWORKING AND NETWORKING AND COOPERATION OVER COOPERATION OVER

DISTANCESDISTANCES• 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

KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, TRAININGTRAINING

• 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

NoCry AT A GLANCENoCry AT A GLANCE

Online platform

Contact siteCo-productions over distances

Face-to-face meetings

TrainingWorkshopsSeminarsEducation

Knowledge

and skills

Business skills

Networks

Localincubator

Localincubator Local

incubator

MORE INFORMATIONMORE INFORMATION

Kaj KostianderKaj KostianderKemi-Tornio University of Applied SciencesKemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences

Research and DevelopmentResearch and Developmentkaj.kostiander@tokem.fi

Tel. +358 40 849 7231Tel. +358 40 849 7231

www.creativeyouth.euwww.incubiz.eu