Draft Itinery

Monday 9 March
18:00 Arrive and delegates meet for informal welcome
The Peacock 49-51 Seel Street, Liverpool. Drinks and meal.

Day 1 Tuesday 10March March
Site visits – Creative Industries, training and regeneration, incubation and intermediary
09:00 Depart hotel for Knowsley by minibus
10:00 Knowsley Creative Space
11:30 Depart for Preston
12:30 Lunch at UCLAN
13:30 The role of HEIs and creative businesses in regional creative industries development and regeneration
Mark Lamy – Head of School, Design and Technology
Virtual business support - Ruth Smith, Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries, UCLAN
15:30 Site visit PAD, Jenny Rutter, Creative Industries Officer, Preston City Council
16:30 Return to Liverpool
19:30 Dinner – el Forno

Day 2 Wednesday 11 March
Creative Industries business development and training Creativebias MDA
09:30 Introductions – Roy Jones
09:45 Guided tour of the city center
11:30 Introduction to the programme and overview of VET and business training in the UK – Roy Jones and Rob Eakins
12:45 Lunch
13:45 How a CI agency works
Sarah Elderkin Design Initiative
Pete Smith Business Development Adviser, Blue Orchid
16:00 -17:30 Plenary session and feedback
19:30 Dinner – Alma de Cuba


Day 3 Thursday 12 March
Action planning Creativebias
09:30 Creative Concepts – Roy Jones
12:30 Lunch – opportunity for informal discussions and meet with SMEs (post incubation)
13:30 Action Planning, alternative approaches – Roy Jones and Holly Langley
14:30 – 16:30 Conclusions, Making sense of the CIs – plenary session
19:30 Theatre visit, Everyman, Hope Street, Liverpool

Day 4 Friday 13 March
The role of the regional development agency
10:00 Visit to ACME
Creative education and training rising to the challenge?
12:30 – 14:00 The Design Academy– JMU visit Martin Downie, Head of Department, School of Art & Design
14:30 – 16:00 Bluecoat Creative Industries Centre
19:30 Dinner Miu Miu Chinese
21:00 – 12:00 Live Rock gig – ?? (optional)

Day 5 Saturday, 14 March

Depart and goodbyes

Participants for the March Visit

Rui Magno, AEP
Panagotis Ignatiadis
Bulent Uygun, Denizli Chamber of Industry
Camilla Lundberg, Landskrona Kävlinge Svalövs Gymnasieförbund/Sweden
Martin Brouer, Regierung von Oberbayern Government of Upper Bavaria
Mehmet Ogut Selcuk, University (Cumra Higher Educational College)
Fatih Er Selcuk, University (Cumra Higher Educational College)
Meryem Kara Selcuk, University (Cumra Higher Educational College)
Andrzej Gąsiorek, Regionalna Izba Handlu i Przemysłu Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Jose Manuel Soto, Chamber of Commerce
Jose Manuel Perea, Chamber of Commerce