PA CULTURE FLAGSHIP CRITERIA

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How to become a PA Culture Flagship?

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Download Flagship criteria > here

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First steps:

• Identify which action your potential flagship will contribute to

  • Action 1/2/3 (see underneath)

• Contact PA Culture Coordinators and apply for the flagship status in written form

• PA Culture Coordinators screen the applications and make a recommendation to the PA Culture Steering Group (SG) for a decision

• After approval of the SG, PA Culture Coordinators are authorized to confirm that the project has the potential to become a PA Culture flagship, SG Presidency shall prepare the letter of support for the projects which were positively voted on (signed either physically or electronically)

General Flagship criteria

• High impact on the BSR macro-region

• Meeting the objectives of the EUSBSR

Content-related criteria

• Meeting the objectives of one or more actions of PA Culture, matching in particular the strands listed below:

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ACTION 1

Promoting the BSR cultural and creative industries, encouraging creative entrepreneurship

Objectives:

• Strengthening the competitiveness of the cultural and creative sectors of the region

• Upscaling the creative potential of the region through exchange of ideas, know-how and experience

• Sharing the creative potential across the whole region and contributing to its faster and more coherent economic development

• Triggering resource-efficient cooperation

Flagships wanted in particular in the following areas:

• Designing tools for the support of small, micro-sized/individual enterprises (pooling resources, joint marketing/export initiatives, facilitating access to capital or marketing opportunities)

• Promotion of single sectors and inter-sectoral cooperation

• Promotion of sustainable products

• Mapping, generating, pooling and sharing knowledge, expertise and experience

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ACTION 2

Promoting BSR culture, cultural diversity and European values, promoting culture as a driver for sustainable development

Objectives:

• Presenting the diversity, quality and attractiveness of BSR culture and arts in all its variety and complexity

• Promoting the BSR as an attractive cultural region

• Triggering spill-over effects and innovation in economy and society through cultural interventions

• Strengthening and supporting the European project and promoting European values

• Fostering cultural exvhange and cooperation

Flagships wanted in particular in the following areas:

• Culture as a driver of social innovation (e.g. as regards integration, participation, urban development)

• Culture as a driver for sustainable innovation

• Joint presentation of BSR culture/cultural products (festivals, museums etc.)

• Presenting the BSR as a culturally attractive region

• Promotion of cross-sector cooperation (culture labs) bringing together academics and practitioners from the cultural and other sectors, offering access to (new digital) technologies and other shared infrastructure 

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ACTION 3

Preserving and presenting the BSR's cultural heritage, strengthening regional identity

Objectives:

• Increasing the societal and economic value of cultural heritage through innovative and visitor-friendly presentations of heritage sites and museums

• Strengthening the regional identity

• Focusing on the cultural and historic roots of BSR

• Preserving the cultural heritage of the BSR on land and under water

• Facilitating the management of the region's cultural heritage and promoting public interest in and access of these assests

Flagships wanted in particular in the following areas:

• Cooperation in the course of cross-border infrastructure projects which would endanger the cultural heritage

• Joint presentation of BSR cultural heritage / cultural heritage products (exhibitions, museums, touristic offers etc.)

• Pooling and joint use of expert know-how

• Raising awareness for the cultural, historic and political past / fostering mutual understanding for different views

• Strengthening regional identity

 

Main tasks of PA Culture Flagship leaders:

• Ensuring implementation of the flagship

• Taking an active part in the PA Culture work (relevant meetings and conferences)

• Regularly reporting on the progress of the project to the PA Culture Coordinators

• Indicating substantial changes in the project alignment in content or partnership to PA Culture Coordinators

• Ensuring communication and visibility of the project and its results (including the use of the PA Culture logo on websites and publications)