The University of Turku organizes an interactive cooperation seminar “How can artists and creatives be more entrepreneurial and innovative in non-urban areas?” for cultural and creative actors at the Rauma Maritime Museum in 31 October – 2 November 2023. The event is designed to assist the capacity-building and foster entrepreneurial social and business models and innovations in non-urban areas.
The programme on 1 - 2 November can also be attended remotely via Teams.
Welcome to the seminar to build partnership at the local level and beyond!
The seminar will focus on topics such as digital technologies in the cultural and creative industries’ practices to boost innovation capacity, visual and written storytelling as a marketing and innovation tool, types of collaborative strategies and their implementation, networking and partnership building, and EU funding and alternative fundraising. Seminar consists of interactive exercises in smaller groups.
The seminar is free of charge for participants and will be held in English. For those arriving at the museum, coffee will be served in the morning and afternoon.
The seminar will be led by EU Horizon partner in the IN SITU project, Prof. Dr. Lidia Varbanova (in the photo) from Bulgarian National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA). She has a wide international experience in over 60 countries as a consultant, educator, coach and researcher in the arts, culture and creative industries. Other presenters are: Associate prof. Elena Trencheva, Milla Velcheva and Lyubomira Kostova.
The maximum number of participants will be 20 in Rauma and 20 remotely. The two-day event consists of six parts, all of which can be attended or selected to suit your own needs. Participants will receive a Certificate of attendance with the EU logo. Similar seminars will later be organized in Ireland, Latvia, Iceland, the Portuguese Azores and Croatia.
Media representatives are welcome to attend. They can register at: pauliina.latvala-harvilahti@utu.fi
Heritage Futures Workshop frames the seminar and its futures thinking
We start the day before the seminar with a Heritage Futures Workshop on Tue 31 October at 12.30-16.00. There, a joint imagination of futures will prepare the ground for the rest of the seminar. The maximum number of participants in the workshop, which will be held in English and Finnish, is 50.
“Participants of the Heritage Futures Workshop will create and co-produce visions for the futures of culture and the creative industries. These will be considered in the long term, 50 years backwards and forwards into the future. In the end, they will reflect together on what should be done now to achieve the desired future," says Katriina Siivonen, University Lecturer, Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, who will act as facilitator. Together with her, the workshop will be facilitated by Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti, Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku.
How to register? Via the link below. The deadline for registration is Friday 27 October. For remote participants, a link to participate will be sent via email.
For more information on the event:
Prof. Lidia Varbanova, National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Bulgaria, lidiavarbanova@gmail.com
Adj. Prof., University Lecturer Katriina Siivonen, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, katriina.siivonen@utu.fi, tel. 050 322 8015
Adj. Prof., Senior Researcher Fellow Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, pauliina.latvala-harvilahti@utu.fi, tel. 050 442 5064
For more information on the IN SITU project:
Prof. Maunu Häyrynen, Landscape Studies, University of Turku, maunu.hayrynen@utu.fi, tel. 040 864 9406
Adj. Prof., University Lecturer Katriina Siivonen, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, katriina.siivonen@utu.fi, tel. 050 322 8015
> Read more about IN SITU project
Main image: City of Rauma
