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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.

7 cultural and creative cities Human Capital Inner circles & Education 3 NEW cities as compared to the 2017 edition of the Monitor New city Selection criteria: Braga Guimarães European Capital of Culture Openness, UNESCO creative city Tolerance & Trust International cultural festivals

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

Group 4 € 19 000 - € 27 000

Faro 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?

XXL Population groups: XXL group > 1 million inhabitants (20 cities) Lisbon XL group 500 000 – 1 million inhabitants (40 cities) XL L group 250 000 – 500 000 inhabitants (40 cities) Sintra S-M group 50 000 – 250 000 inhabitants (79 cities) L Porto Faro Coimbra Guimarães Braga S-M Population groups

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Lisbon and Porto register the highest scores on the Cultural and Creative Cities Index in the country, reaching 2nd and 9th position, respectively, in their population groups of 40 ranked European cities of 500 000 to 1 million inhabitants and of 79 ranked cities with 50 000 to 250 000 inhabitants. Online tool: https://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cultural-creative-cities-monitor/

Joint Contact info: [email protected] Research Centre Cities Highlights Dimensions Lisbon Sintra Braga Coimbra Faro Guimarães Porto Lisbon comes 1st on ‘Cultural Vibrancy’ among the 40 ranked European cities with 500 000 to 1 million inhabitants, thanks to its 3rd and Cultural Venues 2nd places, respectively, on Cultural Venues & Facilities & Facilities and on Cultural Participation &

Attractiveness. Porto is 9th among the 79 Cultural Vibrancy European cities with fewer than 250 000 Cultural Participation & Attractiveness The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor inhabitants, mainly due to its ranking on 2019 edition Cultural Participation & Attractiveness (10th). Creative & Knowledge-based Jobs Designed to mark the festivities of 2001, when Porto was a European Capital of Culture, Casa da Música is a major concert Intellectual Property hall space in the city designed by the Dutch & Innovation architect Rem Koolhaas. 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 Lisbon comes 3rd in its population group in Creative Sectors featured in the Monitor are already top performers. on ‘Creative Economy’, thanks to its 1st and 3rd ranking, respectively, on Creative & Knowledge‑based jobs and New Jobs in Human Capital Inner circles Creative Sectors. Faro, Sintra, and Guimarães & Education New city also perform extremely well on New Jobs in Selection criteria: Creative sectors, achieving 1st, 2nd and 3rd, European Capital of Culture respectively, among the 79 ranked cities with Openness, UNESCO creative city Tolerance & Trust International cultural festivals 50 000 to 250 000 inhabitants (Faro and Guimarães) and the 40 ranked cities with Outer circles 250 000 to 500 000 inhabitants (Sintra). Annual gross domestic product per capita: Local & International Connections Group 1 > € 45 000 The Centre for Arts and Architecture is a non-profit cultural institution Enabling Environment Group 2 € 35 000 - € 45 000 Affairs Quality of based in Guimarães. Its mission is to Governance Group 3 € 27 000 - € 35 000 support and encourage artistic creation combining various fields of artistic Population groups XL L S-M Group 4 € 19 000 - € 27 000 expression - from visual arts to literature - with architecture. 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? In terms of ‘Enabling Environment’, Lisbon holds the best position in the county on Human Capital & Education, in 11th place at the Population groups: European level in its population group. 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) The Criativo do Beato hub provides a 35 000 m2 working space for national and international entities in the areas of technology, innovation and the creative industries.

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

Joint Contact info: [email protected] Research Centre