In November, 2008, the European Parliament proclaimed the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 (EYCI) to “promote creativity through lifelong learning.” The (EYCI website) provides more details about this venture. The site proclaims, “Creativity is a driver for Innovation and a key factor for the development of personal, occupational, entrepreneurial and social competences and the well-being of all individuals in society.”
Among some of the council’s main goals, the EU will support the efforts of Member States by contributing to financing measures at
European, national, regional and local levels including:
- Conferences, events and initiatives to promote debate and raise awareness of the importance of creativity and a capacity for innovation;
- Information and promotion campaigns to disseminate key messages;
- Identification of examples of good practice and dissemination of information about promoting creativity and a capacity for innovation;
- Surveys and studies on a Community or national scale.
You can see the rest of their EYCI Goals here. Let’s hope their efforts can help jump start the global economy!
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At a glance it seems like the EYCI organization could use some creativity themselves. Conferences, campaigns and surveys…It doesn’t scream “wild and crazy” does it?
Well, it doesn’t scream “wild and crazy” as you noticed just because it’s the formal and representative side of it all.