This document summarizes three projects: 1) ICT & ART Connect, which created a map of ICT and arts institutions in Europe and made recommendations to engage artists in innovation; 2) CODEC, a project testing an open innovation framework through six cultural heritage institution pilots; 3) SPECIFI and the Creative Ring, which combined future internet infrastructures and creative industries to establish a European Creative Ring of Smart Cities and Regions through demonstrators. The presenter discusses tangible impacts of these projects including new programs, policies, communities and applications.

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iMinds-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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- One finished project (and resulting policy impact)
- One submitted project
- One ongoing project (and its resulting community)
- Disclaimer: these projects are collaborative:
many partners are involved, as well as colleagues from
iMinds-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (not just me!)
Contents

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- Project for DG Connect (tender for a service contract,
SMART 2013/0030)
- Consortium: iMinds & Artshare
- “The study will create a map of institutions and ongoing
programmes/activities linking ICT and the arts in Europe
and worldwide. It will analyse best practices to enhance
interaction between artists and IT experts and to increase
the impact of these interactions on innovation and creativity.
From this analysis, recommendations will be drawn for a
DG Connect strategy to engage more broadly with the arts
in H2020.”
1. ICT & ART Connect

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Please give a brief overview of the project background: which
problems are you addressing? What is the current state of
play?
Project background

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- Interactive map (input generated from survey, other studies
and databases).
- What does the community of ICT & art look like, and how do
they describe themselves? (qualitative survey)
- Successful project stories: what makes for a good
integration of artists in R&D / ICT?
- Recommendations for DG Connect:
- Artists to make research concrete, artists as creators
(doing instead of talking)
- Beware of risk of ‘instrumentalisation’
Project idea and method

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- New programme being launched this year with the purpose
of engaging artists in ICT related research
- Tangible outcome of the study, policy impact
- Launch event taking place next week
- http://ictartconnect.eu/
Impact

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- New programme being launched this year with the prupose
of engaging artists in ICT related research
- Tangible outcome of the study, policy impact
- Launch event taking place next week
Impact

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- Project for the call H2020-REFLECTIVE-6-2015 (Innovation
ecosystems of digital cultural assets)
- Consortium partners: 2 Belgian, 2 Dutch, 2 Danish, 1
Estonian, 1 Swedish, 1 Irish, 1 Greek & 1 Spanish
- Background: initiatives to open up digital assets have often
either been top-down and centralised (Europeana’s DEA,
PSI directive) or small scale and very ‘ad hoc’
- It might be more fruitful to find more of a middle ground:
innovation ecosystems as networked and collaborative with
long term vision and fitting within institutional missions.
- Idea of cultural commons fits very well with this
2. CODEC - COmmons as Digital Ecosystems for Culture

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- The CODEC project proposes a Cultural Commons
Framework to foster a multi-layered, bottom-up approach
aimed at facilitating the sharing and reuse of digitized
cultural assets.
- The Framework will be tested in 6 pilots. Goal: understand
conditions under which innovation ecosystems for digital
cultural assets can thrive, in real test cases with cultural
heritage institutions and other partners.
- WP on integration the framework to foster lessons learned
Idea and methods

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- Impact tangible: show that networked ecosystems can be
sustainable, also develop tools, methods, applications
- Pilots on
- licensing contemporary art for open reuse;
- Wikipedians in Residence and their impact;
- provenance tracking of collection items (embedded);
- crowdsourcing tools for WWI newspaper archives;
- take-up of audiovisual archives for education;
- co-creation of an educational app.
Impact

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- Project “Smart Platform Enabling the Creative Industries for
the Future Internet”, January 2013 – July 2015
- Idea: combining innovative infrastructures and creative
industries to set up a European Creative Ring of Smart
Cities and Regions.
- Smart Cities have to become Smart Creative Cities, by
employing open, Future Internet infrastructures to become
thriving centres of arts, media and leisure.
- Methods: demonstrators with real-life Future Internet
(Fiber-to-the-Home and wireless) infrastructures, with real-
life users and producers, in Living Lab settings
3. SPECIFI and the Creative Ring

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- Impact tangible: community beyond the project’s scope and
duration: http://www.creativering.eu/
- The Creative Ring is a new, European-wide experimental
community for artists, creative talents and stakeholders
working in the Creative Industries
- “Inspiring Hubs, Talented Partners,
Creative Tools, Cool Projects”
- Soft launch (website) in April 2014
- Official launch event: 23 June 2015, Barcelona
Impact: the Creative Ring

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- Already participating cities :
- Barcelona (E)
- Amsterdam (NL)
- Mons/Charleroi (BE)
- Eindhoven (NL)
- Bristol (UK)
- Kerkrade (NL)
- Brussels (B)
- Athens (GR)
- Already participating partners:
- iMinds (BE)
- I2CAT (ES)
- European Network of Living Labs
- Createnet (IT)
Impact: the Creative Ring

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- Core = research with real and tangible
impacts
- Policies and funding programmes, real life
development of services, and sustaining
communities
To summarise...

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