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Soft Skills in the O-City Project. Starting with Critical Thinking.
The orange economy has great growth potential that is slowly being squeezed. According to the psychology of color, orange is commonly associated with qualities such as originality, fun, creativity or joy. This color has also been attributed to a term such as 'economy'...
Matera: from shame of Italy to pride of Europe
It is 1960s’, Italy is growing fast after the 2ndWorld War, it is becoming one of the most interesting economies in Europe. The Italian government is looking at a strong promotional campaign to present to the country this new trend and the development which will bring...
The O-CITY Project was presented at the XXXIII Annual Congress of the European Academy of Business Economics
A paper titled “O-CITY Project (Orange: Creativity, Innovation & Technology): innovative tool of the Orange/Creative economy” was presented during the AEDEM 2019 Congress held in Sevilla (Spain) on 4th, 5th and 6th of June, 2019. Written by Cristina Santandreu...
How Business incubator Novi Sad supports the development of Creative Industries in Serbia?
The creative industry sector is as a set of activities dedicated to generating and exploit knowledge and information. It combines creativity (usually determined by some cultural heritage), preferences, and business to support the economy. What does the Business...
Barranquilla is officially the first city in Latin America to enter O-City
Juan José Jaramillo, Secretary of Culture of the District, received the statuette of O-City in the old Fluvial Intendance building. This event represents the official entrance of the city of Barranquilla to the orange world of this project, thus making it the first...
Why is European Capital of Culture title important for a city?
The European Capital of Culture was established in order to emphasise richness and diversity of European cultures, strengthen cultural connections between citizens of Europe, connect people from different European countries, meet other cultures, promote mutual...
What innovation is?
''Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.'' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We live in a time where everything is happening really fast and everything is changing and progressing really fast. Constantly, there are...
O-City participated in the new edition of Digital Jove 2019 (Valencia-Spain)
The project O-City (Orange: Creativity, Innovation and Technology) was presented in the new edition of Digital Jove 2019, an event organized by the Coordinating Team of Digital Jove and the Valencian Institute of Culture - Generalitat in conjunction with several...
O-City: Culture, education and orange economy for local development
O-City project, funded by EU programme Erasmus+ has taken its first steps after the kickoff meeting in Gandia (Spain). Gandia (Spain) hosted the first meeting of O-City project, that promotes local development using orange economy, innovation and technology on natural...
O-City project is on!
We finally know each other! O-City project has started to walk today at Gandia (Spain) and we have also started to work and made some decisions about how the platform is going to be. It has been a day full activities. How does EU Administration works? UPV and ‘MarkEUt...
Polytechnic University Of Valencia – Gandia Campus, hosts the kick off meeting of the Erasmus+ funded project “O-City”
The first meeting of the project partners, coming from six countries, is being held at Gandia UPV Campus on February the 4th and the 5th To discover and promote the cultural and natural heritage, turning it into a economical and educational motor. These are some of...