Future City Jobs DSS2016EU

Future City Jobs is a project conducted by the British Council and promoted by the EU PROGRESS programme framed within the strategic plan on Employment and Youth 2020. With a view to outlining the strategy for this plan, 6 countries and 6 cities including, alongside San Sebastian, Wroclaw (Poland), Tallinn (Estonia), Glasgow (Scotland), Prague (Czech Republic) and Södertälje (Sweden), will participate in a 12-month pilot project. Creativity is a potential motor of change which, in the framework of the creative industries, can and must promote new ideas, strategies, structures, spaces and places from which to create work possibilities for our young people. Creativity therefore becomes a requirement of innovation, an activity helping people to use their skills. Now more than ever we must boost, based on creativity, new social, educational, democratic and, as in this case, economic and labour models. That’s why we at DSS2016EU, with the help of Sinnergiak (Social Innovation, University of the Basque Country), believe that this is a project with enormous potential that will permit us to imagine new landscapes for reactivating our creative industries and lend visibility to the initiatives underway in this respect in our region.