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BILBAO DECLARATION

DECLARATION OF INTENT AND COMMITMENTS BY THE SPANISH AND EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS TO CREATE A COMMON FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATION THAT PROMOTES THE ALLIANCE OF ART, SCIENCE, INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS AND INSTITUTIONS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP DIGITAL CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN INNOVATION AND THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY.

The participants of the “First European Conference on Art Innovation and Digital Culture in the Knowledge Society and Networks for Intercultural Dialogue and Civic Participation in the Construction of Europe”, held in the city of Bilbao, subscribe to the present document on the 20th of October 2009, with the aim of establishing mechanisms and working groups that will lead to the development of an organisational model that will coordinate and drive Art, Innovation and Digital Culture.

PREAMBLE

If we want to give a coordinated response to the needs of society in the 21st Century and its integral development, we need to establish an institutional and corporative commitment to promote and drive the Arts, Innovation and Digital Culture in the development of the Knowledge Society with the Alliance between Art, Science, Technology, Innovation, Business, Institutions and Society. Together, in a common effort, we will contribute to the placing of Spain, the European Union and each of its countries at the vanguard of culture in research and innovation with the aim of driving the economy, civic participation and social welfare.

WE PROPOSE

These basic principles as a structural framework for Art, Innovation and Digital Culture. Coordination and cooperation
The intersection between Art, Science, Innovation, Technology, Business and Society in collaboration with the Institutions is no longer a mere announcement. It has become a launch pad for the generation of a new society sustained by networks and global communities, breaking with traditional behaviours. As a consequence of this we think more specifically of the Arts, Innovation and Digital Culture as a new form of understanding and interpreting our new reality and society today. The creation of this European Organisation, with worldwide aspirations, will create an environment that allows us to develop and articulate proposals in a coordinated and cross-cutting manner which will in turn enable us to comprehend and take the lead in a future that is already with us.
These basic principles form the structural framework for Art, Innovation and Culture.
Its main objective is the coordination of the different sectors and to establish strategic lines for the promotion of creativity, innovation and digital culture. It will help to drive the Information and Knowledge Society and promote civic participation in an economy based on creative culture and innovation.

Research
To promote coordinated research in all areas of knowledge with particular consideration to areas associated with Art and Science, the setting up of forums, publication of studies and reference documents and the promotion of multidisciplinary projects, and other activities that will affect theoretical, technical and artistic progress.

Training
To promote the socialisation of experiences in the management of Art, Innovation and Digital Culture as elements for supporting the exchange and dissemination of management experiences in the area of European and international management.

Promote and propose common organisational spaces and structures as meeting hubs and the constitution of cultural, artistic, scientific and technological networks.

Create favourable conditions for mutual knowledge-sharing and the transfer and exchange of experiences and innovative projects that incentivise equality and social integration and the role of culture in cooperation for development.

Proposals to encourage a sense of European identity and civic participation in policy making. Information and Communication Technologies as a means for social inclusion.

Spaces for civic society’s participation in the intercultural global debate. Virtual communities and forums as part of alliances between cultures.

Cultural diversity and gender equality as a source of creativity, innovation and wealth.

International cultural cooperation in the EU. Social Agenda / Cultural Agenda.

Bilbao, october 2009

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