Danish Cultural Institute is a self-governing institution. Since 1940 we have been engaged in fostering mutual understanding between people and cultures. In cooperation with partners, we develop international culture and societal events, projects and people to people contacts that can provide mutual value and inspiration. It is our mission to build international relations and contribute to strengthening ways of handling shared global challenges through art and culture. The Institute in Riga opened on August 18, 1990, and our focus remain to facilitate intercultural dialogue between Denmark and the Baltics, focusing on arts, culture, society, and environment. Along with our partners we are creating links between communities, artists and creative industries in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Denmark as well as within the broader Baltic Sea region. 

  

For further information about the Danish Cultural Institute in Riga, please consult our website www.dki.lv   

 

CCC like all the Interreg BSR main projects is 3 years long and consists of 3 work packages to respectively prepare, test and transfer pre-defined solutions. The solutions must have value transnationally in the Baltic Sea Region, and deliver a range of outputs, which can be transferred. CCC initiates a transnational co-creation process, in which 6 demo cities will jointly prepare and test CCSI-driven approaches for an integrated circular transition.  Local authorities, business support organizations and citizens/NGOs team up to launch arenas for co-creation) for practical solutions to CCSI-driven approaches to circular transition.

 

There will be 6 transnational Labs/meetings over the first year with all partners in order to clarify gaps, prepare and test circular solutions for: (1) enabling creative businesses (SMEs) to enter the market with circular products, (2) unfolding circular lifestyles/citizen engagement with CCSI assistance; (3) developing strategies/policies to ensure a sufficiently enabling environment for circular products and lifestyle solutions to grow; and finally (4) co-creation of arenas for the 3 former solutions. Labs and their follow up are facilitated by several CE CCSI experts and the CCC Project Manager.

 

All results are processed into a CCC Starter Kit (a main output of the entire project) to give other BSR cities/actors concrete guidance to involve CCSI into circular transition.  

 

A CCC Policy Roadmap is created, which facilitates dialogue with policy makers on potentials of the approach & support needed. 

 

Activities (e.g., meetings, conferences, digital communication, competition) are organized to transfer the solutions to relevant target groups across the BSR. 

 

A BSR wide competition of business CCI CE solutions, to increase and transfer available solutions and approaches from the market, are implemented. 

 

Follow up structures/plans are clarified in line with Interreg BSR requirements when the project ends. 

*The project Creative Circular Cities is co-funded by the European Union (ERDF) in the frame of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.