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Research Themes (WPs)

The objectives of this work package are: To ensure that the project is performed according to the agreed timeframe and the projected budget in accordance with the Grant Agreement; to manage project administration and reports to the European Commission; to give centralized support to the consortium and achieve the levels of quantity, quality, and interdependency as defined for the objectives and the deliverables of each work package; to engage in active dialogues and maintain efficient communication between the EC, consortium members, linked third parties and external partners. Keep all partners well informed about developments to make progress. Ensure that the principles and human rights are fully respected, and ethics, gender, and diversity issues are carefully considered.
The main objective of WP4 is to analyze the existing film-related innovation systems in small EU territories, address their structural limitations and coordination failures, pilot novel solutions to improve their functioning and competitiveness, and bring about sustainable growth. WP4 builds on knowledge derived from WP 5-7 that addresses different phases of the value chain.
The knowledge is used to develop evidence-based rationales for innovative interventions. Interventions and pilots aim to bring about systemic change. The focus is on green and sustainable strategies, IPR management, decentralization of market governance models, new forms of financing production, transformative business models, and strengthening the role of film tech startups in the national and EU innovation systems.
All pilots will be developed, tested, and implemented in dialogues with stakeholders. The work on pilots will be complemented by work on improving innovation systems coordination. An end goal is to work towards better complementarity of cultural and innovation policy frameworks, enabling improved coordination and the strengthening of cross-sectoral (film and ICT sectors) innovation systems.
The objective of this WP is to analyze film production, financing, and training ecosystems in European small nations including additional analysis of the long-term impact of COVID-19 and current economic uncertainty. The WP will analyze the current state of talent in the film workforce of small European countries, what obstacles are present for its development, and what educational, industrial, and policy measures need to be established.
Adapting the latest insights from the broader start-up sector to the AV sector and testing their efficacy to improve AV project success to inform evidence-based skills development policy will be a key objective. Through this WP, the project aims at building a sustainable ecosystem model that emphasizes cooperative production alliances between European small nations encouraging collaboration, knowledge, and asset sharing.
To create and implement a holistic strategy for disseminating and communicating the project's outcomes towards a) the European industry, b) decision-making and the policymaking community, and c) adjacent and cross-sectorial industries.
To build and grow a community of European and global stakeholders around the future of the European Audiovisual Industry around the core concepts of the call and CRESCINE objectives and areas of impact delivery. To deploy a comprehensive C, D&E campaign including social and digital media, web and online events, community building, presence at key industry nodes, festivals, awards, business and innovation interventions, and policy forums for local, regional, and EU stakeholders.
To establish an innovative State of European Film platform with data results from the project and its parts, actionable insights policy and industry suggestions, case studies, impact reports, and the community to foster data and insight-driven approaches at the European audiovisual community.
To map, devise, and implement exploitation of the project results, including research publishing, consortium co-creation, spinoffs of cross-sectoral initiatives, and benchmarking and testing of business models for financial and non-financial exploitation, including experimentation of rights, decentralized infrastructure, and so forth, and to devise exploitation and commercialization venues for the pilots of the results of the work packages.
To act as a promotional center for all the WPs of the project supporting other WPS for high visibility communication, outreach, and exploitations.