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DC Lisbon
Oct20
Our cycle on “Creative Hubs and Entrepreneurship for Social Change“ started today with a great introductory session about creative hubs and social entrepreneurship.
Our wonderful participants, representing different types of organisations such as ADDICT, Fermenta NGO, Portuguese Entrepreneurs, NVO Front and SEDA (Regional Development Agency of Sandžak) shared their views and experiences about the development of creative and social entrepreneurship in Portugal and Serbia. Different scenarios but same needs: inspiration, competences, sustainability, fundraising and networking opportunities. Topics that will be raised in the following sessions of this cycle.
For this purpose, the second session of this cycle will be focused on the competences and abilities the entrepreneurs need to ensure in order to provide a successful implementation of their ideas. For sure we´ll discuss a lot about the challenges and the difficulties entrepreneurs and hub managers face everyday but also we´ll share innovative ideas, creative solutions, a lot of hope and great inspiration for them.
The participants of this session will include entrepreneurs as Susana Antonio from Fermenta NGO and Ana Margardida Ferreira from IADE Creative University in Lisbon. Representatives from Rio Criativo will join us in DC Rio de Janeiro and other participants in DC Novi Pazar.
DC- Creative Hubs S2 – 27 October Invitation
DC- Creative Hubs S2 – 27 October Programme
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Oct19
2nd Session DC – Changing Societies, Changing Journalism
The elections coverage has always been an insteresting subject to discuss upon. Discussing it from the journalists´ point of view and from the political parties point of you is an importante exercise to understand roles and what is expected from each side. Plus it’s also important to try to understand the changes that came with a networked society. Putting social networks in the equation, the diferent kinds of participation that brought new actors to the coverage.
In the framework of the Cycle on “Changing societies, changing journalism: A global discussion on the future of journalism”, organised by the University Institute of Lisbon ISCTE – IUL (Portugal) and the Dialogue Cafe Association, a third session focused on elections coverage will take place next 29 October (from 14h00 to 15h30 London time).
The session untitled “Elections coverage: before, during and after – what has changed in the networked society” will connect people from DC Lisbon (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian) and DC Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University).
Special speakers will include notably: in DC Lisbon, Paula Oliveira, Journalist responsible of Newsdesk, TVI and Gustavo Cardoso, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL); in DC Rio de Janeiro, Fabiano Post, Blogger at Global Voices, and Yesica Fisch, Senior Producer at Associated Press, among many others participants.
DC- Changing Journalism S3 – 29 October Programme
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Oct19
2015 has been a great year for Dialogue Cafe Network and we will continue working hard in order to create more bridges for Dialogue and Sharing Experiences!
Find here the updated calendar of activities (sep2015-jan2016).
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Oct12
With the aim of supporting social entrepreneurship in creative sectors, the Dialogue Café Association offer its network to address the challenges faced by creative and social entrepreneurs, provide networking and partnerships opportunities, promote research and reflection, share good practices and case studies as well as support the development of social entrepreneur’s competences.
With this purpose, the Dialogue Café Association is organising a programme of sessions on Cycle “Creative Hubs and Entrepreneurship for Social Change”.
First session on “Censorship in a global and changing world: religion, politics and economics”.
In this framework, a first session untitled “Exchanging thoughts on creative hubs and entrepreneurship as vehicle for social change”, will allow us to introduce the main expected outcomes of this cycle of sessions and identify the challenges and opportunities of using creative industries as a tool for social entrepreneurship. Experts, entrepreneurs, makers, organisations promoting social entrepreneurship in the field of creative industries will join us in different cities of the Dialogue Café Network and take the floor to discuss about these issues.
The first session of this cycle on creative hubs and social entrepreneurship will take place next 20 October 2015 from 15h to 16h30 (London time).
Speakers:
DC Lisbon:
- Cristina Farinha, Executive Director of ADDICT, Agency for the development of culture and creative industries north of Portugal
- Susana António, Fermenta NGO, Founder of A Avó veio Trabalhar
DC Novi Pazar:
- Dženan Narović, NVO Front
- Samir Kacapor, SEDA (Regional Development Agency of Sandžak
Cycle on Creative & Social Entrepreneurship – Programme
Session 1 – 20 October Invitation
Session 1 – 20 October Programme
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Oct12
Along 4 days, Dialogue Café Association has been participating in the NGO´s Fair organised in the framework of the Green Festival 2015, Estoril (Portugal) from 08 to 11 October 2015.
The opening of the NGO´s Fair, where Dialogue Cafe has a stand, took place on October 8th. The President of the Gulbenkian Calouste Foundation, Mr. Artur Santos Silva, core partner of the Dialogue Café Association and host of Dialogue Café Lisbon and Dialogue Café Paris, visited our stand together with Mr. Carlos Carreiras, the President of the Municipality of Cascais and Mr. Ove Thorsheim, Ambassador of Norway.
Among many other organisations participating at the NGO´s Fair, we have promoted Dialogue Café Network and discussed about the powerful tool we have in our hands, with more than hundred interesting people and organisations. Youngsters were excited with Dialogue Café because the idea of discussing with the Other through a video-conferencing system. We presented our work and fields of action (Social Innovation, Sharing Knowledge, Community and Intercultural Dialogue, Entreprise and Entrepreneurship) to people interested in know more about our network.
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GreenFest 2015 is full of great activities especially focused on green thinking, social innovation and civic participation, shared objectives of Dialogue Café. Among the NGO´s participating we found some DC partners such as the Rede de Jovens pela Igualdade, the Academia Ubuntu and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
We really hope that our participation in this great festival will bring nice partners and people to Dialogue Café with new ideas, proposals and will for great joint initiatives and cooperation.
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Dialogue Cafe
Oct7
“The new development paradigm, where the main factors of economic and social growth are knowledge, creativity, originality and skills, has not only changed the economic structure, but also the concepts of growth and development. The ‘knowledge-based economy’ finds its economic support in creativity and talent, and emphasises cultural industries as a conceptual framework within which growth generators exist.”[1]
In 2008 the cultural and creative sectors contributed an estimated 4.5 % to EU GDP, and employed some 3.8% of Europe’s workforce[1]. Beyond this direct contribution to jobs and growth, these sectors trigger spill-overs in other areas such as tourism, content for ICT and provide benefits for education, social inclusion and social innovation. They are therefore particularly important as Europe and other regions in the world seek to emerge from the current economic crisis. With this regard, social entrepreneurship represents an opportunity to attempt to further broad social, cultural and environmental goals by using innovative solutions and measuring performance in positive return to society.
At the same time, there is an important development of creative hubs and business in Europe and worldwide. They are physical or virtual ‘place’ based on collective or co-operative models and on creative, technological or cultural work aiming at supporting the development of companies and projects but also connecting people in networks and creative communities.
The Dialogue Café Association aims at supporting social entrepreneurship in creative sectors by offering its network to address the challenges faced by creative and social entrepreneurs, providing networking and partnerships opportunities, promoting research and reflection, sharing good practices and case studies as well as supporting the development of social entrepreneur’s competences.
With this purpose, the Dialogue Café Association organise a programme of sessions focused on:
1. Exchanging thoughts on Creative Hubs and Entrepreneurship, vehicle of social change and development (20 October);
2. Becoming Entrepreneur and hub Manager: creative smoothie of competences (27 October);
3. Partnership and Fundraising opportunities for social and creative entrepreneurs (10 November);
4. Good practices and initiatives of social entrepreneurship in creative sectors (11 November);
If you are interested in social entrepreneurship and creativity, sign up, join us and share your experience.
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More info: Dalia Sendra (daliasendra at casadoregalo.pt)
Ref:
[1] “Building a Digital Economy: The importance of saving jobs in the EU’s creative industries”, TERA Consultants, March 2010.
[2] Commission Recommendation on the digitalisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation, C(2011) 7579 final, 27.10.2011
[3] European Creative Hubs Forum, January 2015, Lisbon (Portugal) – www.creativehubs.org
[1] Measuring the Economic contribution of Cultural Industries, A review and assessment of current methodological approaches. 2009 UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics Handbook NO. 1, 2009. Link to survey
