Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities (CCSC)

Policy project co-funded by the European Commission. From 2018 to 2021, the project has developed new ways for cities and regions to bring together the public administration and the cultural sector to co-create public policies. CCSC shows that culture and commoning practices can transform neighbourhoods and cities into more sustainable places, catalysing better lives for their communities. To achieve the overall goal of the project, three key objectives were set:
1. Explore: Explore and test how to best approach current urban challenges through commoning practices, co-creation and policy development.
2. Learn: Foster and facilitate peer-to-peer learning, exchange and training of commoning practices within cities and between cities and regions.
3. Research, Disseminate & Sustain: Research and document the outcomes of peer-to-peer learning and make them available for wider use via open-source models, both for policy development, commoning politics and co-creation.
One of the reports produced during the project, ”Mapping of EU projects, policies, programmes, and networks: a policy report to support Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities”, maps the recommendations, best practices, and key case studies of 20 previous EU-funded projects, programmes, initiatives and networks related to the policy issues of CCSC. It builds upon the indicators developed during the project and the CCSC charter, to compare the ways in which previous projects have explored themes of culture as a common good, urban commons, participation at the local level, and bottom-up decision-making. It also includes examples of initiatives linking culture and well-being/ health (e.g. Work Plan for Culture 2019-2021, Turku European Capital of Culture 2011, etc.).