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Pro-CCS: Microfunding Cultural and Creative Sectors European Conference

Where: Regione Toscana office. Brussels, Belgium. 
When: December 13, 2023 10:00 - 14:00

Microfunding Cultural and Creative Sectors European Conference

Wednesday, 13 December • 10.00 – 14.00 CET

Regione Toscana office | Rdpt Robert Schuman 14, 1000 Bruxelles

Attendance is free, but registration is required

Pro-CCS: Microfunding for Cultural and Creative Sectors (co-funded by Erasmus+), will host its final event in Brussels on 13 December 2023. Over the past two years, this project has focused on how to address the challenges CCSs face in accessing finance, which is one of the most critical obstacles to the sector’s growth. The Pro-CCS project supports overall CCSs by reinforcing the competences of professionals active in the sectors and aims at bridging the cultural and creative sectors with the financial sector in order to facilitate access to credit.

In this final event of the project, project partners invite representatives from cultural and creative industries, local, regional and national authorities related to the cultural and business sector, and policymakers to join a unique opportunity to share and discuss the results of the Pro-CCS project:

  • a training course for business development services and financial tutors

  • a distance training course for cultural and creative sector professionals

  • a toolkit for financial intermediators to support business start-ups in CCS

We are delighted to invite you to attend Pro-CCS’s Microfunding Cultural and Creative Sectors European Conference on 13 December 2023, 10:00-14:00 (CEST) at Regione Toscana in Brussels. (Lunch will be provided.)

You then are welcome to stay for a special roundtable session from 14.00 – 16.00 to more deeply discuss the main challenges related to accessing credit and microfinance and better understand the peculiarities of CCS.

We are very much looking forward to your attendance!


Agenda

9.30 – Arrivals, Registration, Coffee

 

10am – Introductions and Welcome 

Moderator: Jaysha Obispo (Communication Expert and Cultural Organizer) 

Welcome notes – Simona Simoni (Officer, Regione Toscana), Massimo Macaluso (Euradia) and

 

10.15 – Project Results

Handbook for Business Service Providers – Lorenzo Marino (Ente Nazionale per il Microcredito)

 

CCS Distance Learning Course – Maya Weisinger (Culture Action Europe)

Special Guest: Marco Mabritto (Italian Grower’s Association)

 

Toolkit for Financial Intermediators – Tanya Trayanova (President, InnoGrowth)

Special Guests: Penko Stoev and Ivan Parushev (IMD, Bulgaria)

 

10.55 – Q&A (10 mins)

 

11.05 – Professionalising Cultural Management | C’Man 

Arthur Le Gall (KEA)

 

11.25 – Q&A 

 

11.30 – Uniting Culture and Microfinance for Growth

Panelists: Barbara Stacher (European Commission, Directorate-General for Education and Culture), Francesca Raimondi (European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy), Arthur Le Gall (KEA), Lorenzo Marino (Ente Nazionale per il Microcredito)

 

12.05 – Q&A

 

12.25 – Evaluation & Close

 

12.30 – Lunch 

 

14.00 – Side event: Accessing Microcredit Roundtable

Facilitated by Pauline Lauch (ImpactHub Leipzig)

 

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