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Creativity as a factor in urban development
Where
Germany
Germany
When
2016
2016
Who
State capital of hannover with specialist partners, unesco city of literature heidelberg in the department of cultural affairs of the city of heidelberg
State capital of hannover with specialist partners, unesco city of literature heidelberg in the department of cultural affairs of the city of heidelberg
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2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Cultural Domain(s)
Results achieved
Connecting and promoting musical and literary creativity in urban societyadding momentum to innovation in urban society; exchanging strategies, ideas and practicesintensifying, expanding, consolidating artistic mobility through the network of cities of music and literature; including and promoting regional artists.hannoverfurther developing sound design in a targeted way in cooperation with the hannover “horregion” (listening region)hosting “fete de la musique” 2016 as unesco city of musiccreating new impetus for existing festivals in the areas of jazz, world music and classical musicstrengthening the network of unesco cities of music through knowledge platformhttp://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/hannoverheidelbergintensifying literary endeavours in the heidelberg region through participatory projectsstrengthening interdisciplinary collaboration with artists, cultural institutions and the universitypopularising knowledge of the literary history of heidelbergraising awareness of the need to translate german-language literature into other languages, increasing the international reception of german literatureholding an international network meeting of the unesco cities of literature in order to exchange knowledge and plan cooperative projectshttp://www.heidelberg.de/english,len/home/go+out/unesco+city+of+literature.html
Financial resources allocated to the policy
Heidelberg: 160,000 to 200,000 eur in annual resources