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Free event advertising for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009

As part of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the Government is inviting third sector organisations to advertise conferences and events for free in a newly developed interactive calendar and on the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and the Europa websites.

The European Year of Creativity and Innovation aims to:

• Raise awareness of the importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development;
• Disseminate good practices;
• Stimulate education and research; and
• Promote policy debate on relevant issues.

The Year addresses a wide spectrum of related themes such as:

• fostering artistic and other forms of creativity through pre-school, primary and secondary education including vocational streams, as well as non-formal and informal education
• cultural diversity as a source of creativity and innovation
• information and communication technologies as media for creative self-expression
• promoting innovation as the route to sustainable development
• regional and local development strategies based on creativity and innovation
• cultural and creative industries including design – where the aesthetic and the economic coincide
• innovation in the public, private and third sectors

To add an event or conference to the interactive calendar, please visit the link below:

• European Year of Creativity and Innovation [external website]