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KTN & ECBN: Horizon 2020 – Forthcoming Funding Opportunities for Creative BusinessHorizon 2020 is the EU’s new programme for research and innovation. It will run from 2014 to 2020 with a budget of 80 billion euros (proposed by the European Commission, still in discussion). Horizon 2020 will combine all research and innovation funding currently provided through the Framework Programmes for Research and Technical Development, the innovation related activities of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and the Europe Creative Business Network (ECBN) ran a three-country tour of the opportunities from Horizon 2020 for the UK’s creative businesses, looking in more detail at different funding programmes and successful projects. Their found that the following topics may be of interest to the wider creative industries. The call for these topics will be published on 15th October 2014. ICT 19: Technologies for creative industries, social media and convergence ICT 20: Technologies for better human learning and teaching ICT 10: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation – Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies. Click here for more information.
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Creativeworks London is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.