Nottingham has been selected to host the launch of the new working group ‘Cultural and Creative Industries for Creative Cities’ as part of Eurocities, a network of major European cities to promote our local cultural and creative sector and to project it at European level.

Delegates from 28 European cities will be arriving in Nottingham to attend a reception in the Council House on Thursday evening which will be opened by the Lord Mayor, Cllr Mohammed Munir, Cllr Brian Purbutt and Cllr Malcolm Wood who is the chair of the Eurocities Culture Forum. Specialists in the creative sector from local authorities around Europe will then visit Nottingham Trent University, Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies and Broadway Media Centre on Friday 14th.

Cllr Malcolm Wood said; “This is an important opportunity for Nottingham as it clearly shows a strong commitment from everybody to raise the profile of the creative sector in the city. Nottingham City Council are working together with Nottingham Trent University, with the Nottingham Creative Network and its local creative key-players but they also want to hear from emerging artists and businesses to promote a strong image of Nottingham as a leading European creative city.

Nottingham has clearly a lot of work to do over the next year and so, but feels that collaboration with key players will make a real difference to the economic vitality of the city”.

The working group will be a place for cities to network and to influence governments and European institutions. Nottingham has been part of the Eurocities for 10 years and will chair the Cultural Forum until October 2008.