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Cities Highlights Dimensions

Cultural Venues & Facilities Cultural Vibrancy Cultural Participation The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor & Attractiveness 2019 edition Creative & Knowledge-based Jobs

Intellectual Property & Innovation The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor 2019 shows how well 190 European cities in 30 countries perform across

9 cultural policy dimensions, compared to their peers. Cities have been selected based on their demonstrable Creative Economy New Jobs engagement in promoting culture and creativity, from about 1 000 cities in Eurostat’s Urban Audit. Therefore, the cities in Creative Sectors featured in the Monitor are already top performers.

6 cultural and creative cities Human Capital Inner circles & Education 2 NEW cities compared to the 2017 edition of the Monitor New city Selection criteria: European Capital of Culture Openness, UNESCO creative city Tolerance & Trust International cultural festivals

Outer circles Győr Annual gross domestic product per capita: Local & International Connections Veszprém Group 1 > € 45 000 Enabling Environment Group 2 € 35 000 - € 45 000 Quality of Governance Group 3 € 27 000 - € 35 000 Szeged Pécs Group 4 € 19 000 - € 27 000

Group 5 ≤ € 19 000 Cities are ordered alphabetically within each population group Lower Higher performance performance How does your city rank on the Cultural and Creative Cities Index?

Budapest Population groups: XXL XXL group > 1 million inhabitants (20 cities) XL group 500 000 – 1 million inhabitants (40 cities) L group 250 000 – 500 000 inhabitants (40 cities) XL S-M group 50 000 – 250 000 inhabitants (79 cities)

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Population groups Veszprém 1st 50th 100th 150th 179th Budapest achieves 7th position on the Cultural and Creative Cities Index among the 20 ranked European cities with more than 1 million inhabitants. Furthermore, smaller Hungarian cities such as Győr, Pécs and Veszprém perform well in some of the underlying dimensions of the Index. Online tool: https://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cultural-creative-cities-monitor/

Joint Contact info: [email protected] Research Centre Cities Highlights Dimensions Budapest Debrecen Győr Pécs Szeged Veszprém In terms of ‘Cultural Vibrancy’, Veszprém is the top Hungarian city, at 60th position among the 79 ranked European cities with 50 000 to Cultural Venues 250 000 inhabitants. On Cultural Venues & & Facilities Facilities, Pécs ranks 47th, while Győr is 40th on

Cultural Participation & Attractiveness. Cultural Vibrancy Cultural Participation The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor & Attractiveness 2019 edition Veszprém will be a European Capital of Culture in 2023. Its programme aims to provide better access to culture as well as Creative & Knowledge-based Jobs to improve the city’s international image.

In terms of ‘Creative Economy’, Budapest excels Intellectual Property on New Jobs in Creative Sectors, coming 1st & Innovation among the 20 ranked European cities with more The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor 2019 shows how well 190 European cities in 30 countries perform across than 1 million inhabitants. Győr also performs

9 cultural policy dimensions, compared to their peers. Cities have been selected based on their demonstrable th Creative Economy particularly well on this dimension, coming 6 New Jobs engagement in promoting culture and creativity, from about 1 000 cities in Eurostat’s Urban Audit. Therefore, the cities in the group of cities with 50 000 to 250 000 in Creative Sectors featured in the Monitor are already top performers. inhabitants.

Human Capital Inner circles In its 2019-2028 Creative Győr Strategy, & Education New city the city supports the development of Selection criteria: cultural and creative sectors as a way European Capital of Culture to ‘increase its economy’s resilience to Openness, UNESCO creative city Tolerance & Trust International cultural festivals changes through diversification’.

Outer circles Annual gross domestic product per capita: On ‘Enabling Environment’, Szeged is 33rd in Local & International Connections the group of cities with less than 250 000 Group 1 > € 45 000 inhabitants, thanks in particular to its performance on Human Capital & Education: it Enabling Environment Group 2 € 35 000 - € 45 000 Quality of boasts the 2nd highest score in the country after Governance Group 3 € 27 000 - € 35 000 the capital. Population groups XXL S-M Group 4 € 19 000 - € 27 000 Szeged is home to the , Group 5 ≤ € 19 000 Cities are ordered alphabetically within each population group one of the most distinguished universities in the country. It hosts a Faculty of Arts and Lower Higher performance performance How does your city rank on the Cultural and Creative Cities Index? a New Media Culture Creative Workhouse for communication professionals. Population groups: XXL group > 1 million inhabitants (20 cities) XL group 500 000 – 1 million inhabitants (40 cities) L group 250 000 – 500 000 inhabitants (40 cities) S-M group 50 000 – 250 000 inhabitants (79 cities)

Online tool: https://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cultural-creative-cities-monitor/

Joint Contact info: [email protected] Research Centre