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Cultural Venues & Facilities Cultural Vibrancy Cultural Participation The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor & Attractiveness 2019 edition Creative & Knowledge-based Jobs FRANCE
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.
11 cultural and creative cities Human Capital Inner circles & Education 1 NEW city compared to the 2017 edition of the Monitor New city Lille Selection criteria: European Capital of Culture Openness, UNESCO creative city Tolerance & Trust International cultural festivals Paris Outer circles Annual gross domestic product per capita: Local & International Nantes Connections Group 1 > € 45 000 Enabling Environment Limoges Lyon Group 2 € 35 000 - € 45 000 Quality of Saint-Etienne Governance Bordeaux Group 3 € 27 000 - € 35 000
Avignon Toulouse Group 4 € 19 000 - € 27 000 Montpellier Marseille 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?
Paris Lyon Population groups: XXL XXL group > 1 million inhabitants (20 cities) Toulouse Bordeaux Lille Marseille XL group 500 000 – 1 million inhabitants (40 cities) XL L group 250 000 – 500 000 inhabitants (40 cities) S-M group 50 000 – 250 000 inhabitants (79 cities) Nantes L Avignon Montpellier Limoges S-M
Population groups Saint-Etienne 1st 50th 100th 150th 179th
Paris tops the Cultural and Creative Index, both at the national and European level, thanks to its outstanding performance on nearly all the underlying areas. However, other French cities also record remarkable results in their population groups, particularly Avignon and Saint-Etienne on ‘Cultural Vibrancy’. Online tool: https://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cultural-creative-cities-monitor/
Joint Contact info: [email protected] Research Centre Cities Highlights Dimensions Lyon Paris BordeauxLille MarseilleToulouseMontpellierNantesAvignonLimogesSaint-Etienne Within ‘Cultural Vibrancy’, Avignon claims 2nd spot in the group of 79 ranked European cities with 50 000 to 250 000 inhabitants. This Cultural Venues performance is mainly the result of the city’s 2nd & Facilities place on Cultural Venues & Facilities. Cultural Vibrancy Cultural Participation & Attractiveness The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor The Festival d’Avignon – one of the most 2019 edition famous contemporary performing arts festivals in the world – has been held annually since 1947. The informal ‘Festival Creative & Knowledge-based Jobs Off’ takes place on the same dates as the official event, focused on presenting largely undiscovered plays. Intellectual Property & Innovation
The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor 2019 shows how well 190 European cities in 30 countries perform across Nantes comes 19th on ‘Creative Economy’ in
9 cultural policy dimensions, compared to their peers. Cities have been selected based on their demonstrable Creative Economy the group of 40 ranked European cities with New Jobs engagement in promoting culture and creativity, from about 1 000 cities in Eurostat’s Urban Audit. Therefore, the cities 250 000 to 500 000 inhabitants, and 7th on the in Creative Sectors featured in the Monitor are already top performers. underlying Creative & Knowledge-based Jobs dimension. Human Capital Inner circles & Education New city As an emblem of a proactive cultural policy Selection criteria: spanning 20 years, the goal of the Nantes’ European Capital of Culture Creative Arts District is to become a Openness, UNESCO creative city Tolerance & Trust International cultural festivals European centre of excellence in the field of cultural and creative industries. It is Outer circles located on a 15-hectare site that was once Annual gross domestic product per capita: occupied by the shipbuilding industry. Local & International Connections Group 1 > € 45 000 registers a notable performance on Enabling Environment Group 2 € 35 000 - € 45 000 Toulouse Quality of th ‘Enabling Environment’, ranking 10 among Governance Group 3 € 27 000 - € 35 000 the 40 ranked European cities with 500 000 to 1 million inhabitants and 2nd on the underpinning Population groups XXL XL L S-M Group 4 € 19 000 - € 27 000 Human Capital & Education dimension.
Group 5 ≤ € 19 000 Cities are ordered alphabetically within each population group In November 2018, the Higher Institute Lower Higher performance performance How does your city rank on the Cultural and Creative Cities Index? of Applied Arts inaugurated a new generation campus in Toulouse which includes classrooms for the students and a Population groups: large exhibition and conference space. It is XXL group > 1 million inhabitants (20 cities) XL group 500 000 – 1 million inhabitants (40 cities) located in Enova Labège, the region’s first L group 250 000 – 500 000 inhabitants (40 cities) business park, and is part of an ecosystem S-M group 50 000 – 250 000 inhabitants (79 cities) of start-ups, large companies and research and innovation institutions.
Online tool: https://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cultural-creative-cities-monitor/
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