RCIA: Kick-off Meeting

We will be kicking off the RCIA project with our first partner meeting on March 1-3 in Vienna. Here all partners will get a full introduction to the project, share their interest in the project and agree on best practices and what they want to achieve within the project. 

If you want to know more about the project partners here is a list of links to explore:

• Lead Partner, Austria Wirtschaftsservice GesellschaftmbH (Austria)
• Public Service of Wallonia (Belgium)  
• Advisory Partner, Creative Business Cup (Denmark)
• North-West Regional Development Agency (Romania) 
• Region of Central Greece (Sterea Ellada) (Greece) 
• Joint Stock Company “Development finance institution Altum” (Latvia)
• IDM Suedtirol / Alto Adige (Italy) 
• City of Lublin (Poland) 
• Barcelona Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation (Spain) 

For the Kick-off meeting the Lead Partner Austria Wirtschaftsservice GesellschaftmbH has planned study trips to sektor5 and Fast Forward Festival 
sektor5
sektor5 was elected Best Co-working Space for the second year in a row by the Central European Startup Awards. Its homegrown Incubator programme 5starts was named Best Incubator Programme 2016 and 5starts’ Program Lead Floor Drees was honored with the award Most Influential Woman by SAP.
Fast Forward Festival
Forward is an international festival for digital and creative culture. The festival brings together designers, policy makers and creatives from all over Europe and lays a focus on the cultural and economic world of the creative industries. Forward Festival addressed not only architecture-, design- and art enthusiasts, but also a broad audience which wants to meet the challenges of the future with the tools of the creative industries.
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