The NSRP 2007-2013 project Creative City Challenge has been chosen as a pilot project in the context of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI) 2009. EYCI 2009 features good practice examples promoting creativity and innovation.

Creative City Challenge focuses on the catalyst role of creative industries in building and strengthening the innovative capacity of urban economies, using a transnational triple helix of government, education and business.

The European Year of Creativity and Innovation is coordinated by the European Commission and aims to raise awareness of the importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development.

• Read more about Creative City Challenge here.
• Find out more about the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 here.