A center of creative industries was opened today in Jablanica, as part of the ceremony of the Municipality Day. A special gratitude for the opening of the Center was sent to the EU, which funded the adaptation and equipping of the Center through the project of the Cross – border cooperation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro “Creative industries for employment without borders”.
The center for creative industries is partnership initiative of the public and private organization and will serve as a multidisciplinary space in which the development of creative industries will be supported in an innovative way. All interested people will be able to develop creative thinking, entrepreneurial spirit and innovation capacbilites in the supported environment of the Center.
“We expect the center to become a nursery of creative ideas and the development of creative industries. It is planned that the Center provide education for over 200 people in 2023 about the use of CNC machines, programming, acquisition of IT skills, drafting souvenirs, and to provide a number of other services. We especially thank the EU that recognized the need to improve infrastructure for creativity and innovation in smaller local communities. Also, it is very important for us that the work of the Center in the future will also rely on cross-border resources developed together with our friends from Montenegro, “said Damir Šabanović in the case of the importance of the Jablanica center.
„High levels of youth unemployment, low labour force participation rates and extensive informal sector employment are common to labour markets in this territory. These joint efforts are to suport almost 400 job seekers by improvment of skills and a more efficent mechanism and cross border information system.“, istakao je Gianluca Vannini, šef Sekcije operacija za socijalni razvoj, civilno društvo i prekograničnu saradnju, Delegacija Evropske unije
In addition to information and professional training, the Center will enable all interested entrepreneurs and legal entities, but also those who plan to start dealing with these activities to use new sophisticated equipment for the development of new products. The Center in Jablanica is expected to work together with centers in Danilovgrad, Bijelo Polje and Konjic on the expansion of the Creative Industry Sector Market.
The project “Creative Industries for Employment without Borders” is financed by the European Union through the cross-border cooperation program Bosnia and Herzegovina – Montenegro, and it is jointly implemented by the Municipality of Jablanica in cooperation with the organization Multimedijal from Bijelo Polje (MNE), the Municipality of Danilovgrad (MNE) and the Association LiNK from Mostar. The total value of the project is EUR 455.000, of which the European Union finances EUR 367.000.