Culture matters

Culture Matters, so be an Ambassador and Spread the Word!

The cultural and creative industries are:

  • 4,5% of the world’s GDP and forecast to grow 10% per year
  • growing faster than manufacturing and the service industries
  • the leading sector for growth and employment in the EU
  • currently providing 8.3 million jobs and €558 billion revenue in EU
  • The generator of €11 million an hour in 2014 in the UK
  • third biggest employer in EU
  • providing 2.5 times more jobs than car makers
  • employing more young people than any other sector
  • enhancing start-ups, entrepreneurship and innovation
  • generating investment and tourism

Culture and art:

  • contribute significantly and uniquely to the well-being of society and individuals
  • improve community cohesion
  • increase social engagement
  • contribute to happiness
  • improve health
  • build trust and dialogue
  • define values
  • transfer knowledge across generations
  • make diverse and tolerant societies
Fashion industry and furniture trade fairs in Milan attract 3.5 million business tourists a year who spend €350 a day on accommodation, food and visiting cultural sites with annual revenue of €2.5 billion and 80,000 jobs.

Creative Industries Economic Estimates: Statistical Release – Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the UK, January 2015

The economic contribution of the creative industries to EU GDP and employment – Tera Consultant, September 2014

Building a Creative Nation: Evidence Review – Creative & Cultural Skills, 2014

Creating growth. Measuring cultural and creative markets in the EU – GECAS, December 2014

Tourism and the Creative Economy, OECD Studies on Tourism – OECD Publishing, 2014

Facts & Figures – the economic contribution of the creative and cultural sectors 

The value of the creative industries & culture – Private Investment in Culture 2007/08

FACTS

  1. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Contribution to improvement of infrastructure
  2. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Cultural heritage as a city forming factor, development of infrastructure for maintenance of cultural objects, capitalization mechanisms
  3. FACTSHEET ON ROLE OF CULTURE AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
  4. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Contribution of culture to tourism (as a part of creative industries)
  5. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Creation of the legal conditions for development of cultural industries and creative economy
  6. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Emergence of cultural industries and creative economy “clusters”
  7. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Influence of culture on development of urban space and urban practices
  8. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Participatory model, change of approaches to decision-making
  9. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Creative\cultural industries as a factor in urban development
  10. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: Education and internal mobility: joint social projects education + culture, opportunities for young people: work in other regions, training, retention of young people in cities, art residencies
  11. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: Values and conflicts: specific examples of changes in behavior models, confidence building, reforming of institutions, ways of cooperation and mutual understanding
  12. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
  13. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMY
  14. INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, URBAN DEVELOPMENT. SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT WITH CULTURE BEING ONE OF THE MAIN FOCUSES.