The Creative Forum is a project to support the visibility, communication and networking of Central Finnish creative expertise.
The LINKO project has set out to improve the entrepreneurial expertise of creative industries. Its training is targeted specifically at self-employed people and people thinking about starting, invigorating or expanding their own business.
This project is aimed at already operational enterprises and entrepreneurs in the creative field.
Painter? Composer? Dancer? Event organiser? Author? Musician? Gallerist? Manager? Media artist? Designer? Graphic designer? Cinematographer? Other creative specialist?
The creative industries development project in Central Finland was initiated in the spring of 2004. The project consists of three sub-projects and it is backed by two regional development organisations, the Regional Council of Central Finland and Jyvaskyla University of Applied Sciences.
The goal of the project is to reinforce the opportunities of specialists in the creative field to make a living from their own skills and to develop their operations systematically to become more business-like. When talking about creative industries, the concepts of business and entrepreneurship are rather loose. Creative industries – and entrepreneurship within them – mean action and professions based on individual creativity, skills and talent. This field is also known as cultural industry and creative production – and the target of trade therein is the cultural contents.
Creative industries interface and collaborate with the graphic, communication and ITC fields, tourism and the wellness field, among others.
