MED Sha.p.e.s. Sharing prior excellence and support for the MED creative asset

Programme 2007 - 2013 Programme MED

Date of latest update: 2021-06-26

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Description (EN):

Shapes is focused on the excellences of the Knowledge/Creative Economy in the MEDarea. In this area are concentrated in fact the most appreciated talents/brands/know-hows worldwide. The creative asset directly or indirectly produces cultural products and includes not only commercial/production/service enterprises but also artists, public and non-profit organizations. For this reason Shapes is also dealing with the governance theme. In fact the so-called creative cluster cuts across multiple economic and institutional sectors and competences and does not constitute a cohesive sector in the traditional sense of a productive cluster. For Shapes, we have defined a double target: 1. public relevance: institutions, and social parts 2. private relevance: economic actors, categorized in 3 broad groups: - Arts and Culture - Design - Media In all these sectors and in decision-making processes, the partnership implements actions of: knowledge /technology sharing and capacity and awareness rise. Sha.p.e.s. capitalizes tools, experiences, models and results of 10 projects (ended or still on going) dealing with innovation and creativity and their governance. Shapes intends further to: - create a common toolbox of all available online tools running in a Sha.p.e.s. Resource Centre. - share and transfer consolidated methodologies and services as innovation drivers - create a common operating model for assessing territorial innovation potential and for boosting the promotion of innovation policies and creative businesses. The 13 partners of this project come from: Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia, France. It is a multilevel partnership. In fact the participating organizations are representing the business service providers, the public authorities and their associations, the research and academic centres. This variety of subjects assures the project's sustainability because the creative and innovative process is fed by the mutual interest in collaborating of active regional actors.

Achievements (EN):

The Sha.p.e.s. Toolbox The toolbox allows to the creative companies to access tools capitalizes in the SHA.P.E.S. project, but also to provide tools for other companies, playing an active role in providing on-line services and sharing them in the community of creative enterprises. With respect to the tools by the previous projects, the Sha.p.e.s. partnership has capitalized some tools for providing on-line services, services for supporting companies’ activities and other services for facilitating knowledge sharing. The Knowing Resource Centre has been capitalized providing the structure of the on-line platform of the Sha.p.e.s. project. The on-line Resource Centre produced during the KnowInG project aimed at creating, collecting and making available services, information and knowledge (e.g. resources) by gathering existing tools and new tools, and at stimulating a community of interest. This goal and its results have been completely inherited in the Sha.p.e.s. project. The capitalized tools can be used by companies for accessing/providing and sharing services and information about them and with their customers, and by Public bodies and organization to provide information, knowledge and services for creative enterprises. The capitalization process carried out in the Sha.p.e.s. project highlighted that companies are interested in services and tools that support knowledge sharing process, as well as any tool useful for daily activities. Among the tools capitalized in Sha.p.e.s., the toolbox allows to share methodologies used for stimulating creativity, such as story telling approaches, digital libraries containing examples aiming to inspire the work of fashion designer, on-line databases of creative enterprises where companies can find other economic actors for B2B and network activities. However, one crucial issue is the visibility of the company with respect to the potential customers. For this purpose it has been configured as a new category of service, the Showcase, which allows to all companies to directly show their products. Development Model Shapes Common Model for assessing territorial innovation potential and for boosting the promotion of innovation” is a result of the capitalization of 2 different models, the model for measuring Local Balance of Innovation (ALBI), introducing the lists of criteria for checking the situation in the areas of industrial system, education and research, Infrastructure and framework conditions and governance of innovation, and the “Model for simulation and valuation of quality of living environment« (QLE) that is introducing the quality of time-balance indicators, related to spatial quality, lifestyles and possibilities . The possibility of testing the model is a possibility for (local ) public authorities to understand better the present situation and potentials of their territories for: - attracting creative and innovative enterprises and actors, - supporting the development of innovative and creative production, and hence also how to improve attractiveness, economic growth and competitiveness of the whole territory.

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Innovation capacity and awareness-raising Regional planning and development

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Associazione Regionale dei Comuni del Lazio – ANCI Lazio

Address: Roma, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Federation of Aragonese Municipalities, Regions and Provinces - FAMCP

Name: Federation of Aragonese Municipalities, Regions and Provinces - FAMCP

Address: Zaragoza, Spain

Legal status: n/a

National Council of Research - IRPPS

Name: National Council of Research - IRPPS

Address: Rome, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Provincia di Lucca

Name: Provincia di Lucca

Address: LUCCA, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Algarve University

Name: Algarve University

Address: Faro, Portugal

Legal status: n/a

Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije

Name: Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije

Address: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: n/a

Andalusian Institute of Technology (IAT)

Name: Andalusian Institute of Technology (IAT)

Address: Sevilla, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Chambre de Commerce & d'Industrie Marseille Provence

Name: Chambre de Commerce & d'Industrie Marseille Provence

Address: MARSEILLE, France

Legal status: n/a

Associazione Eurokom

Name: Associazione Eurokom

Address: Gerace, Italy

Legal status: n/a

BIC Lazio

Name: BIC Lazio

Address: ROMA, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Development Agency of the Region of South Aegean (READ S.A.)

Name: Development Agency of the Region of South Aegean (READ S.A.)

Address: Rhodes, Greece

Legal status: n/a

Εθνικό Κέντρο Έρευνας και Τεχνολογικής Ανάπτυξης-ΕΚΕΤΑ

Name: Εθνικό Κέντρο Έρευνας και Τεχνολογικής Ανάπτυξης-ΕΚΕΤΑ

Address: Thermi, Greece

Legal status: n/a

Comune di Prato

Name: Comune di Prato

Address: Prato, Italy

Legal status: n/a

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Project name (EN): MED Sha.p.e.s. Sharing prior excellence and support for the MED creative asset

Project acronym: Sha.p.e.s.

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 295 200.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 981 310.00

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2007 - 2013 Programme MED

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2015-12-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

159 / 159 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

1 395 / 1 395 (100%)

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