1. PROJECTS.

Over the last 15 years, we have secured funding for both competitive projects and the Article 83 agreement to the tune of EUR 2 million, of which more than half of the resources came from competitive calls within the European framework.

Design of competitive European projects As a research unit, in the last 10 years she has participated in numerous international projects related to the effects of cultural and creative activities on social innovation processes (SOSTENUTO), the role of spaces in creativity (3C4Incubators), the existence of regional development models based on the cultural and creative sectors (CREATIVEMED) or the identification of excellent practices in cultural policies in the urban and regional field (CULTURE FOR CITIES AND REGIONS). It participates or has participated in mobility and exchange projects such as EUROASIAN CREASPACE NETWORKING, or in the RISE TRANSMAKING call project, which aims to establish a multilateral network of research and innovation personnel active in the fields of site-based artistic activities as a space to create alternative narratives for social, economic and democratic renewal. Also noteworthy are the MED projects; OPEN DOORS and CREATIVEWEAR, completed in the last months
More recently, Econcult has secured funding for the MED CHEBEC projects on the internationalisation of the cultural and creative sectors, and for the H2020 designsCAPES project on the role of design as a facilitator of urban innovation. The most recent project is the H2020 MESOC project, led by Econcult, which seeks to find new ways of measuring the social impact of culture.

Although less successful we have also participated in national and regional I+D calls developing projects such as INNOVA. Innovation, creativity and culture or ES_CCANVI.

We have also articulated a very stable relationship with the consulting company CULTURALINK which, precisely on the basis of the above-mentioned relationship, has opened a headquarters in the University of Valencia Science Park and with which we develop numerous collaborations.

Design of research projects for companies and institutions 

Within the framework of the conventions we have addressed various types of issue, which can be grouped into:

1. DIMENSIÓ MACROECONÒMICA de les activitats culturals i creatives. La mètrica de les activitats culturals i creatives (El Valor Econòmic de la Cultura a la Regió de Múrcia) La causalitat entre sectors culturals i creatius i el desenvolupament (EKONOMIAZ). Els efectes dels sectors culturals i creatius i la renda per càpita, la productivitat, l'eficiència, la competitivitat global. (Projecte SOSTENUTO. La cultura com a factor d'innovació econòmica i social. Especificitats territorials. Models d'innovació basats en la cultura i la creativitat. (Projecte CreativeMed. Toolkit)
2. SECTORAL AND MESOECONOMIC DIMENSION. Sectoral analysis. The specificities of the cultural and creative sectors of the market. Culture and Territory. Creative territories
3. MICROECONOMIC DIMENSION. Behavior of consumers/participants/creators. The structure and production function of cultural and creative companies/project organizations. Spaces for innovation, creativity and culture.
4. FOR A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR CULTURE, CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION. Centrality and transversality of new cultural policies. Culture and sustainability. Good regional and urban policy practices in promoting culture and creativity. From attention to diffusion and access to culture to emphasising the processes of creation and production. Networking, mobility and internationalisation. Gender blemishes, digital divide. Mainstream and the opportunity for peripheral speeches. New cultural policy instruments and new models of governance.

2. DISSENY DE PROCESSOS DE PLANIFICACIÓ CULTURAL.

Econcult has developed, since the mid-1990s, a solid theoretical framework for the analysis of cultural policies, as well as tools for their evaluation and monitoring. It is for this purpose that it has the analytical and statistical tools to propose in participatory processes cultural policy proposals at different territorial levels. As examples of these capabilities, it can be noted that Econcult has been directly responsible for the Catalan Government Valenciana's cultural policy programme (2016-2020) Fes Cultura and also participates in its review following the impact of COVID, in the Cultura per a la Recuperació programme. But members of Econcult have also participated in many other cultural planning processes throughout national and European territory.

3. ELABORATION OF DATABASE INDICATOR AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND CULTURAL STATISTICS

One of the tasks to which I have devoted the most attention and dedication has been the development of systems for quantifying aspects relating to the cultural and creative sectors.

These proposals include:

1. The development of software and applications by measuring cultural consumer behaviours such as the AU Cultur application
2. Construction of indicator systems for specific purposes such as the Nueva guía para la evaluación de las políticas culturales locales
3. Build data visualization systems and dashboards using programs like Tableau
4. To prepare and build statistics on cultural and creative sectors at both regional and European level
5. Construction of models for estimating social or economic impacts in the cultural and creative sectors

4. DESIGN AND SUPPORT FOR PROPOSALS FOR ACCELERATION AND INTERNATIONALISATION OF CULTURAL SECTORS

Econcult is offered as a specialized unit to address the needs of acceleration in the cultural and creative sectors. With this proposal, our unit aims to help the economic and professional organisations of the Cultural and Creative Sectors to design and materialise the business consolidation process. The general outline of the proposal is presented in a synthesised way to the following scheme and basically seeks to design a coherent process of evaluating cultural agents with the potential for acceleration and internationalisation, identify proposals for financing and forming consortiums at both European and international level, which we associate with the Valencian agents and from there, depending on the shortcomings or strengths, to design a training plan, activation of connections and mentoring for drafting and inserting into international projects.

In the formative dimension, we start with the detection of the need for the skills of value-generating SCC, which are observed in the next conceptual map.

To promote competence in the field of organisational management techniques, through training in management and funding for professionals, as well as the use of both technological and operational tools aimed at the control and planning of human resources, working conditions and taxation to improve the efficiency of organisations.

Formative modules

• Competitions in the field of organizational management techniques:
• Training in management and funding for professionals in the cultural and creative sectors.
• Competitions in operational techniques for human resources control and planning, working conditions and taxation.
• Using analytical and technological tools to improve the efficiency of organisations.
• Improved skills in project design and implementation and access to public resources and international projects.
• Competitions in the field of internationalisation:
• It needs export and international trade for cultural and creative sectors.
• Growth of the creative economy and the importance of the knowledge economy.
• Funding requirements, knowledge of recipient markets and internal capacities for internationalisation.
• Competences related to the digital transformation field:
• Importance of digital technology in the cultural and creative sectors.
• It needs creative skills in non-creative sectors to support innovation.
• Using digital technologies to generate new services and business models.
• Competences in communication processes.
• It needs technical and relational communication skills in cultural teams.
• Importance of intercultural communication in international projects.
• Competences in marketing, advertising and digital communication to promote the sustainability of cultural projects.
• Competences in relations between science, art and culture:
• Importance of collaboration between science and art to stimulate innovation.
• Different forms of collaboration between sciences and arts, such as joint research or scientific visualization through art.
• Competitions in the generation and management of innovation:
• Recognition of creativity and design as key elements in the innovation process.
• Importance of innovation and creativity training to maximise efficiency in cultural organisations.
• Competences in new mediating spaces:
• Cultural mediation as a process of building bridges between cultural and social challenges.
• Market and consumer analysis skills to understand the needs of the digital public.
• Importance of cultural mediation in personal interaction, learning and citizen engagement.
• Competitions in the field of transdisciplinarity:
• Convergence between cultural and creative activities related to health, education or social inclusion.
• New popup value strings requiring transdisciplinary skills.
• Emerging niches with global demands that can stabilize project work in cultural and creative sectors.