Creative hubs represent a tool for innovation and a guide to entrepreneurs to bring social value to societies and communities through their creativity on local and global scale.
As the UNCTAD report (2010) states, creative economy has the potential to generate wealth and jobs while promoting social inclusion and human development. They facilitate the creative process of entrepreneurs by providing space, consultation, training, funding. Moreover, creative hubs represent a place where young entrepreneurs and start-ups from different backgrounds can meet, discuss, develop and implement new ideas, to building up a new environment able to empower different social groups and support their inclusion.
On the other hand, entrepreneurs and makers bring new ideas and dreams to explore within creative hubs, enhancing the heritage and knowledge of those spaces. In COVID-19 times, where entrepreneurs and makers need to be more resilient and creative hubs pursue innovation more than ever, spaces and opportunities to share knowledge, jointly analyse challenges and approach solutions will be excellent ways to surpass the negative impact the pandemic will bring at the social and economic level.
Against this backdrop, Dialogue Café Network is organising a session to address the successfulness factors and practices implemented by creative hubs to support entrepreneurs and makers and provide responses to their needs. During the sessions some questions will be raised such as:
How has the COVID-19 affected entrepreneurs and makers?
According to your knowledge and experience, in which sense creative hubs can provide new opportunities to entrepreneurs and makers?
How to promote innovation and resilience at the entrepreneurial level in the new era?
Working together is essential to recover from this global crisis. From entrepreneurs and makers, to creative hubs, authorities and other third sector organisations to the private sector, we all have a role in building a post-COVID world that is better for present and future generations. Kindly share your opinion and views on how better encourage collaboration and co-creation within creative hubs among entrepreneurs and makers. Share your opinion, experience and knowledge.
Provisional Programme
Dialogue Café Belgrade (United Nations Associations of Serbia)
Jugoslav Stanković, General Manager, Think Innovative
Dialogue Cafe Évora (Eugenio de Almeida Foundation)
Antonieta Félix, Entrepreneur of Project “Literacia”
Carlos Ramos, Founder of “B de Brincar”
Tânia Carvalho, Founder of “INHERVOICE”
Dialogue Cafe Novi Pazar (Centar Duga)
Vesna Sekulić, creative worker & CEO “Zvechka”
Lejla Mulić, creative worker & CEO “LeCreative Gift Shop”.