The Creative Clusters SummerSchool is four days of intensive up-skilling designed for regeneration and development managers, consultants and researchers building the creative economy at the local level:

  >     Managed workspaces for creative businesses
  >     Business support programmes for creative entrepreneurs
  >     Local and regional strategies for the creative economy

It is aimed at regeneration professionals who are setting up managed workspaces and support services for creative enterprises. The course is intensely practical, and will draw on the extensive expertise and experience of creative industries regeneration in the Yorkshire region. Participants will become familiar with well-tried development tools through guided visits to model projects such as the Workstation (Sheffield) and Dean Clough (Halifax), through focus groups with entrepreneurs and interaction with senior executives. There will be continuous consideration of how these solutions might be customised for participants' own localities.

The SummerSchool is open for registration now.

  >     Date: 6-9th July 2009.
  >     Location: based in Huddersfield, with visits to major workspace projects in the Yorkshire region.
  >     Standard registration: £750 +VAT (late registration is £50 extra after June 6th)
  >     Accommodation at £40 +VAT per night.