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

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 2 NEW cities as 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 Umeå Outer circles Annual gross domestic product per capita: Local & International Connections Group 1 > € 45 000

Uppsala Enabling Environment Stockholm Group 2 € 35 000 - € 45 000 Quality of Norrköping Governance Gothenburg Group 3 € 27 000 - € 35 000

Group 4 € 19 000 - € 27 000 Malmö Lund 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) Stockholm Gothenburg XL XL group 500 000 – 1 million inhabitants (40 cities) L group 250 000 – 500 000 inhabitants (40 cities) Malmö S-M group 50 000 – 250 000 inhabitants (79 cities) L Lund Uppsala Umeå Norrköping S-M Population groups

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Stockholm and Lund reach the best positions both at the national and European level on the Cultural and Creative Cities Index, ranking 3rd and 1st in their respective population groups. However, they demonstrate different strengths on 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 Gothenburg Stockholm Malmö Lund Norrköping Umeå Uppsala Stockholm performs particularly well on ‘Cultural Vibrancy’, reaching 3rd place among those cities with 500 000 to 1 million Cultural Venues inhabitants, thanks to its 3rd position on Cultural & Facilities Participation & Attractiveness. Lund ranks 8th on

Cultural Venues & Facilities, among cities with Cultural Vibrancy 50 000 to 250 000 inhabitants. Cultural Participation The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor & Attractiveness 2019 edition Stockholm offers a rich calendar of cultural events such as Stockholms kulturfestival, Creative & Knowledge-based Jobs attracting just over one million visitors every year, Kulturnatt Stockholm and We Are Sthlm. Every summer Parkteatern Intellectual Property organises free performing arts events & Innovation across the city’s parks. 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 On ‘Creative Economy’, Lund takes the top in Creative Sectors featured in the Monitor are already top performers. spot among cities of similar population size, Malmö ranks 2nd among cities with 250 000 to 500 000 inhabitants, and Stockholm also Human Capital Inner circles comes 2nd in its population group. All three & Education New city cities rank 2nd on Intellectual Property & Selection criteria: Innovation, in their respective population groups. European Capital of Culture Openness, UNESCO creative city Tolerance & Trust International cultural festivals Media Evolution City is a co-working Outer circles space located in an old shipyard in Malmö. Annual gross domestic product per capita: It houses a mix of creative professionals Local & International Connections from cinema, architecture, advertising, Group 1 > € 45 000 marketing, journalism, apps development and design sectors. Enabling Environment Group 2 € 35 000 - € 45 000 Quality of Governance Group 3 € 27 000 - € 35 000 On ‘Enabling Environment’, Stockholm Population groups XL L S-M Group 4 € 19 000 - € 27 000 and Lund demonstrate the most notable performance, coming 7th and 8th in their Group 5 ≤ € 19 000 Cities are ordered alphabetically within each population group respective population groups. In particular, both cities as well as Malmö come 2nd on Quality Lower Higher performance performance How does your city rank on the Cultural and Creative Cities Index? of Governance compared to those with similar population, while Gothenburg is 1st on this same dimension among cities with 500 000 to Population groups: 1 million inhabitants. 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) In 2013, Gothenburg launched a new culture plan with the aim of curbing segregation and promoting trust and understanding. The plan sets out a vision for the city’s future in the run up to its 400‑year jubilee in 2021.

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

Joint Contact info: [email protected] Research Centre