The IHK zu Essen, the EWG – Essener Wirtschaftsförderung, the EMG – Essen Marketing, the Kreative Klasse eV – Berufsverband Ruhr, other institutions, universities and educational institutions as well as the city administration of Essen ask you to participate in a survey for creatives and City’s cultural workers. It is aimed at actors from culture, advertising, design, film, music, literature, press, art, architecture, software / games and fashion – i.e. freelancers, self-employed, companies, students and trainees who are creative.
The anonymous survey is intended to determine the needs of creative and cultural professionals. The results of the survey serve as the basis for the content of the planned new service and consulting offer of the city of Essen for the industry. Creative and cultural workers have the opportunity to take part in the online survey until June 15: www.essen.ihk24.de/umfrage
The survey runs in the run-up to the upcoming council meeting in autumn 2021. During this meeting, the City Council of Essen will decide on a central contact point with numerous information and service offers for cultural and creative professionals. The possible offers of this contact point could include orientation, start-up and financing advice, advice on funding and corporate consolidation, qualification and networking offers, information on the availability of suitable rooms or areas, network events and much more.
The creative industry is a dynamic economic factor in Essen
The aim is to strengthen the perspectives in all sub-sectors of the cultural and creative industries and to make the creative climate in Essen even more visible – and not without reason: the sector is a dynamic economic factor in Essen. It is a driving force and innovation driver, linking industry and startups, services and crafts. It not only shapes Essen’s economy, but also helps to strengthen social cohesion and cultural education. These are all reasons to support the cultural and creative industries, which are also particularly hard hit by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A central contact point for the cultural and creative industries could help make the jungle of offers more transparent for those involved in the cultural and creative industries and facilitate a comprehensive overview of the variety of support services in Essen. These are currently distributed over offers such as those of the cultural office, the EEC – Essen economic development, the EMG – Essen Marketing, funding institutions, real estate agents and many others.
Competence team for culture and creative industries
For this reason, working groups and an advisory board consisting of almost twenty actors from business development, cultural promotion, training in nuclear power plant professions and urban development have been formed. These include actors such as Allbau, the Zollverein Foundation, the Business Metropole Ruhr GmbH, the IHK zu Essen, the Kreative Klasse eV – professional association Ruhr, ecce – european center for creative economy, the University of Fine Arts Essen, the Folkwang University of the Arts , the University of Duisburg Essen, the vocational college east and the Hugo Kückelhaus vocational college. They will all help to establish a bundled offer for the creative and cultural industries and thus to support the cultural and creative workers in Essen more effectively.
Contact person: Romana Milovic, City of Essen, Department of Culture and Creative Industries, [email protected]
Board of Directors Kreative Klasse eV: Simone Götz, Emrich Welsing, Wolfgang Weber
[email protected], 0172 – 2034029
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