ENERGETICON AND THE ARTS

[BIZ/LEI: Alsdorf, March 7]
Energeticon has been responsible for concerts and now for an action series on the television and it appears that it has acquired EUR 2.7m for the culture and creative economy of Meuse-Rhine. Insiders have long known that the culture and creative branch is one of the strongest builders of revenues in the economy in Germany, and with EUR 61bn it is only just behind the automotive industry and ahead of chemicals.

Experts see a future market for ideas and innovation in other branches in this area, and also a focus on local markets, heterogeneity and small-scale activity. Insufficient networking in branches leads to much too low revenues and insufficient consciousness of the branch and lower safety, etc. And this is why the initiative has been taken with the city of Aachen within an Interreg IV-A project, worth the EUR 2.7m mentioned, of which EUR 700,000 is for the city of Aachen. Partners are the German-speaking community of Belgium, Genk, Heerlen, Hasselt, Liège, and Maastricht. Things are looking very interesting.

The project started on March 1, so more news is to be expected from this quarter.

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