Workshop E (In English)

Time 17:15-18:30:
(possibility to continue on Wednesday after the conference)

Theme: Ideas for future collaboration and research

Chairs: Urpo Tuomela and Outi Niemi, City of Oulu and Hanna Honkamäkilä, University of Oulu

Dear Conference Participant

I warmly welcome you to the Call for Creative Futures - conference to explore all exciting possibilities and challenges of the creative industries that lie ahead in the future. As a Workshop E organizer I also welcome you to participate in the workshop at the end of the first conference day.

The theme of the workshop E is “Ideas for Future Collaboration and Research”, and it aims to be a discussion platform to collaboratively design future scenarios and ideas for future research and development activities for creative industries. The objectives of the workshop are:

1. To develop a community of researchers, artists and other people working with the creative industries
2. To collaboratively develop and present new ideas and approaches for future joint research & development activities (target: 2-3 concrete ideas)
3. To initially explore different approaches for funding these activities nationally or internationally; for example FP7

The workshop is open for all. However, it is mainly useful to individuals who are
1. actively pursuing research directions related to creative industries
2. searching for new innovative ideas for future creative industries
3. artists willing to promote their ideas or themes
4. interested in new collaboration possibilities with researchers and industry partners

The preliminary agenda is
17:15 Introduction to the workshop &
submitted themes and ideas for future projects & activities *)
17:30 Workgroups according to themes and ideas
18:00 Brief presentations of the results of each workgroup
18:20 Discussions
18:30 Next steps; who’s doing what?
Closing

*) The participants are encouraged to submit a short description of their themes & ideas in advance to workshop organizers. Contact person: urpo.tuomela@ouka.fi

phone: +358-44-7031390

Workshop organizers
• Urpo Tuomela / Program coordinator, City of Oulu, Innovations and Marketing Group
• Outi Niemi / Program coordinator, City of Oulu, Innovations and Marketing Group
• Hanna Honkamäkilä / EU coordinator, University of Oulu, Planning and Development
• Timo Pärkkä/ University of Oulu

With best regards,
Urpo Tuomela

Room:Festival Hall, part 3