Tag: creativity

New UNESCO Toolkit promotes peer-to-peer learning on policies for creativity

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO organized an online peer-review workshop on 9 December 2021 to finalise the Toolkit on “Promoting policy and cooperation to support creativity”, which promotes peer-to-peer learning on policies for formulating and strengthening measures and policies for creativity following the guidance of the UNESCO 2005 Convention for the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions. The toolkit was developed as part of the programme “EU/UNESCO Expert Facility on the Governance of Culture in Developing Countries: Supporting new regulatory frameworks to strengthen the cultural and creative industries and promote South-South…

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Domtar’s Paper-Based Solutions Bring Variety, Creativity to Self-Isolation

Stuart Mitchell

Domtar makes products that people around the world rely on every day. We design, manufacture, market and distribute a wide variety of pulp, paper and personal care products from copy paper to baby diapers. They have put together some solutions to self isolation: Have your kids spent their days during quarantine glued to the TV or tablet? Have you “finished Netflix?” If so, it might be time to unplug and turn to paper-based solutions for enhanced productivity and entertainment. While the global COVID-19 pandemic has most of us at home,…

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PRCA welcomes creative industries’ freelance visa proposal

Stuart Mitchell

Responding to the House of Lords Communications Committee report, UK advertising in a digital age, the PRCA has welcomed the suggestion of a creative industries’ freelance visa for European Union citizens. Francis Ingham MPRCA, Director General, PRCA, said: “Given they represent 5% of the UK PR and communications workforce, 4,000 non-UK EU citizens would naturally welcome the introduction of a creative industries’ freelance visa, and rightly so. “Not only does it offer them options and flexibility for the future, it would be keenly welcomed by employers who can continue to…

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