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PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Jornalistm INspired by Creatvie Search Innovation Action

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

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238779

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2014 - 2014

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SME´s represent 85% of all actors in the creative industry sector. They coexist with global players and often face difficulties in adopting stat of the art ICT technologies and accessing finance. Moreover, they operate on fragmented and localised target m arkets and have to bear high market cost whish affect their international competitiveness. In this context, ICT tools and technological innovation are fundamental for the creative industries and their competitiveness. The goal of this project is to inc rease the competitiveness of the European creative industries by stimulating ICT innovation in Media SMEs, by effectively building up and expanding a vibrant EU technological ecosystem for the creative industries' needs and by fostering exchanges between the creative industries SMEs and providers of ICT innovative solutions. The scope is to stimulate the adoption and deployment of innovative ICT solutions by the creative industries SMEs. This can be achieved through collaboration with ICT providers and by accelerating and supporting the growth of European creative industries. We will focus on one creative industry - journalism, and in particular digital journalism (as if there is any other form, nowadays). The proposed work will introduce a new form of ICT tool and technological innovation to journalism - creativity support tools. This introduction recognises that much journalistic work is creative, but the technologies to support creative thinking during investigations, data analytics and story formati on do not explicitly recognise the work as creative. Therefore, the proposed work will draw on existing creativity support tools, developed for and evaluated in other sectors, and apply them to journalistic work. Central to the proposal is the treatment o f creativity as information search and idea discovery - the tools will support journalists to search, discover and formulate through new forms of search, idea generation and concept development. We will bid to deve

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PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020