The document summarizes a panel discussion from the Co-Create Project on promoting creativity and social innovation. It provides an overview of the speakers and agenda. It then discusses various aspects of capitalizing on project results, including scaling up, scaling out, policy learning, and policy impact. The panel discussed defining cultural and creative industries, examples of transnational networks, the role of cluster managers, and networks for disseminating results. The discussion focused on how the Co-Create Project and TALIA partnership can support consolidating results, extending them geographically, facilitating policy learning, and influencing policy transformation.

1. TALIA
Parallel session with the Co-Create Project
Bari, 15 March 2017

2. Overview of the Speakers
Session title: Co-Create Name & Surname Affiliation
Modular project representative Roberto Sandrini, lead partner Chamber of Commerce of Rovigo
Panelist #1 Mikel Oleaga, TALIA associated partner Impact Hub, Basque Country
Panelist #2 Kostantinos Christofakis, modular
project partner
Development Agency of South
Aegean Region (READ), Greece
Panelist #3 Alessandro Tartaglia, local speaker Scuola Open Source
Session chair Zsuzsanna Bodi, TALIA partner ENoLL, Brussels
Jesse Marsh CreativeMED expert
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3. Agenda of the session
Welcome to the audience TALIA Partner
Introduction CreativeMED Expert 10’
Modular Project Presentation Modular Project Representative 20’
Speech from the local actor 5’
Discussion: 5 questions to the Panel Facilitated by the TALIA Partner 15’
Thematic Capitalisation issues Modular Project Representative 15’
Discussion Panel + Audience 15’
Way forward and next steps TALIA Partner & CreativeMED Expert 10’
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4. Introduction by the CreativeMED
expert
Jesse Marsh, TALIA Project
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5. A Project’s Fallout
Effects/Impacts
Capitalisation
Deliverables
Activities
• Thematic domain
• Policy level
• Private stakeholders
• Public stakeholders
• MA(s)
• J(T)S
• End users
• Partners/Pilots
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6. Emergent aspects of Capitalisation
• Scaling Up
• Scaling Out
• Policy Learning
• Policy Impact
See next 4 slides for more details
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Consolidation of results and their adoption at
regional/national level as a follow up to project activities
Geographical extension of results to other contexts, via
replication, transfer, adaptation, networked learning, etc.
Actual uptake of a project result or recommendation on
the part of the relevant target policy makers
Possible transformative effects on higher-level policy
frameworks and in general the practice of policy making

7. Scaling Up
• Good project results, but then little happens – why?
• In search of an explanation, one first has to look introspectively to the
project itself
• Questions:
• Were you thinking about sustainability from day 1 or only as an afterthought?
• Were the results actually foreseen or simply discovered?
• What was the degree of perfection / refinement of proposed solutions?
• Were results really relevant to the MED space?
• Were sustainability measures adequate?
• Answers possibly affected by the vertical domain of interest – but we
suspect only to a limited extent 7

8. Scaling Out
• If the project worked fine in X regions, why couldn’t it be the same in
the remaining (43-X, or even 271-X) ones?
• Geographical extension is only one example of transfer, which may
also involve complex processes such as
• Imitation
• Emulation
• Incubation
• Competition
• However we register that there are currently no ways to scale good
project results out to an extent that avoids reinventing the wheel or
facilitates standing on the precursors’ shoulders
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9. Policy Learning
• To the extent the project implications remain untapped, policy makers
are missing a great potential in terms of discovery of insights on
• Common/replicable practices
• Key actors / tools / enablers
• Market exploitable innovations
• Usable guidelines for policy change
• A gap analysis is probably required to highlight the learning
trajectories from project results to evidence based policy actions
• Are these transmission mechanisms domain specific or can they be
made uniform / standardised?
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10. Policy Impact
• Transforming regional policies is a key goal of territorial cooperation:
making this happen depends on
• The presence of a fertile policy environment
• A strong investment in learning capacity of decision makers
• The new programme’s strategy is already acting in this direction,
however impact is mainly assessed ex post
• A process-oriented in itinere approach would help
• An interim step forward might be the creation of a community of
convergent actors and interests
• With a clear definition of goals for policy transformation
• Activating processes of formative evaluation
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11. Colouring the Grey Zone
Scaling Up
Consolidation of results
Scaling Out
Geographical extension of
results
Policy Learning
What goes through
Policy Impact
What is (will be) used to
transform policies
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12. Colouring the Grey Zone
Scaling Up
Consolidation of results
Scaling Out
Geographical extension of
results
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TALIA actions to promote Scaling Up/Out:
❍ Georeferenced mapping of project and pilot stakeholders
❍ Creation of inter-project creativity and social innovation communities
❍ Engagement of EU and global innovation networks and forums

13. Colouring the Grey Zone
Policy Learning
What goes through
Policy Impact
What is (will be) used to
transform policies
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TALIA actions to promote Policy Learning/Impact:
❍ Framing modular project concepts into a ‘Mediterranean model’ of creativity and social
innovation
❍ Aggregation and mapping of modular project results to generate policy evidence
❍ Promotion of triple loop learning in regional / national / EU policy makers

14. A Triple Loop Learning
Exercise
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POLICIES
MED
PROGRAMME
C&SI
PROJECTS
RESULTS
COMMUNITY
MAPPINGCOMMON
MODELPOLICY
TOOLKIT

15. Modular Projects Architecture
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16. Presentation by the Modular
Project Leader
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17. Presentation by the
Local Actor
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18. Local speaker @ Co-Create session
Alessandro Tartaglia
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• Scuola Open Source is a space dedicated to social and technological
innovation, where to perform educational activities, cultural
performances and research projects:
• A hackerspace, where people with shared interest in the fields of
craftsmanship, technology, science, visual arts, poetry, editing, robotics,
domotics, biology, electronics and more can gather, socialize and/or
cooperate;
• A re-use promotion center where obsolete technology is collected with the
aim of promoting their smart upcycling;
• A FabLab: a small workshop offering customized digital fabrication services,
equipped with a kit of fast prototyping tools (3d printing, laser cut, etc.)
• http://lascuolaopensource.xyz/en

19. Discussion
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20. Questions
Session Questions for the Panel (feel free to change)
1) What is the most widely acknowledged definition of Cultural and Creative
Industries and how does it fit into the Project objectives and expected results?
❏ Co-create 2) What is the closest working example you are familiar with to the concept of
transnational (or transregional) network of clusters?
3) How do you think the figure / role of Cluster Manager aligns with the scope
and purposes of this Project?
4) Can you name at least one project or initiative at national / European level
that is coherent with the philosophy and principles of this Project?
5) What are the networks or communities or individual actors that come to
your mind when thinking about the clustering and dissemination potential of
this Project?
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21. Thematic Capitalisation Issues
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22. Colouring the Grey Zone
Scaling Up
Consolidation of results
Scaling Out
Geographical extension of
results
Policy Learning
What goes through
Policy Impact
What is (will be) used to
transform policies
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23. Colouring the Grey Zone
Scaling Up
Consolidation of results
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What are the specific measures foreseen by
the project workplan?
How can TALIA act in support?
Please select from the list on the left hand
side and justify your choice here.
TALIA actions to promote it:
❍ Georeferenced mapping of project and
pilot stakeholders
❍ Creation of inter-project creativity and
social innovation communities
❍ Engagement of EU and global
innovation networks and forums

24. Colouring the Grey Zone
Scaling Out
Geographical extension of
results
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What are the specific measures foreseen by
the project workplan?
How can TALIA act in support?
Please select from the list on the right hand
side and justify your choice here.
TALIA actions to promote it:
❍ Georeferenced mapping of project and
pilot stakeholders
❍ Creation of inter-project creativity and
social innovation communities
❍ Engagement of EU and global
innovation networks and forums

25. Colouring the Grey Zone
Policy Learning
What goes through
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What are the specific measures foreseen by
the project workplan?
How can TALIA act in support?
Please select from the list on the left hand
side and justify your choice here.
TALIA actions to promote it:
❍ Framing modular project concepts into
a ‘Mediterranean model’ of CSI
❍ Aggregation and mapping of modular
project results to generate evidence
❍ Promotion of triple loop learning

26. Colouring the Grey Zone
Policy Impact
What is (will be) used to
transform policies
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What are the specific measures foreseen by
the project workplan?
How can TALIA act in support?
Please select from the list on the right hand
side and justify your choice here.
TALIA actions to promote it:
❍ Framing modular project concepts into
a ‘Mediterranean model’ of CSI
❍ Aggregation and mapping of modular
project results to generate evidence
❍ Promotion of triple loop learning

27. Discussion
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28. Way forward and next steps
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