This project seeks to create a creative environment to support the generation and setting up of innovative business ideas in each of the participating regions. This shall be achieved through studies and support activities which will lead to the development of a Virtual Cluster of Business Creativity. This Cluster will be a central tool for established firms and new entrepreneurs in order to develop new instruments, approaches and techniques to foster and boost creativity, innovation and the creation of new technologies and innovative firms.

www.creabusinessidea.com

The European Commission launched 2009 as European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation for both social and economic reasons. "Creativity in Transit" is a project with the following objectives:
+ exploring intersections and interconnections between urban spaces and creativity;
+ giving a perspective on the European creative class, who they are, what they believe in, what stimulates them, how they work, etc.;
+ discovering the journey which drives them to creative excellence
output: blog & book

www.radicalfuture.com

Information Technology is enabling children to learn in different ways and can be especially effective for disadvantaged children. The examples in these case studies from 15 countries across Europe and in South Africa illustrate the range of innovative and creative ways in which learning with KidSmart has had a positive impact on very young children with special educational needs, opening up new opportunities and helping them to fulfil their potential.

http://blog.eun.org/insightblog/2009/10/kidsmart_case_studies_and_trav.html

The aim of this project is to create communication platforms among the art universities of the EU and Turkey for networking and to foster sustainable cooperations, exchange of information, sharing knowledge and good practices.

The core subject of the project is "City and Art". The activities of the project are based on the elaboration of the relations of the arts with the city.

http://www.cityandartproject.net/
www.cityandart.org

Media for ALL is project we would like to do with young people from different countries to help better understanding of the importance of the development of the high level of the quality and content of media production for young people. With support of the volunteers we would like to encourage communication in different languages and to promote MEDIA language like the best tool for better understanding of people from different countries.
Media for ALL is the project to developing space for further cooperation of the young people from Balkan countries with peers from EU countries for better understanding importance of Active Participation of Young People in Media System of all countries. Our Focus will be in the work with young journalist and media professionals in country side and rural area with special education of possibility for using of free media services of European Commission, UNESCO, UNICEF, News Market...
Media for ALL like to encourage Young People working in small, local media to start to produce media for youth (TV documentaries, TV reports, PSA's, radio and internet radio reports, short film production, animation, internet media...) and to learn how to use new ICT for the Broadcasting of this Programmes and to make their work visible!
Media for All will help to the participants to understand better possibility of new ICT and digital technologies! It is the Educational project ready to give to youngsters all necessary knowledge and skills to become active participants in developing of the electronic society, electronic democracy and knowledge society!

www.mediaeducationcentre.eu

This is a report of DAAD/UN joint workshops on the occasion of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development.
The date for the publication is 23 November 2009 and is supposed to be distributed to the participants of the workshops and the World Conference.

thompson@vie.unu.edu