DME Award 2010 now open for entries!
Monday, July 19th 2010. The only award dedicated to the management of design, the DME Award, is now open for its fourth edition. Previous winners of the DME Award including Virgin Atlantic, NHS, Festo, Decathlon, Senz Umbrellas, Roca and EDF all represent highly innovative organisations where design plays an integral part of their operation. This year the award will be located in Lisbon and represents a new era of the DME Award.
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BIRTHplay controller at the Spin Awards
Monday, March 29th 2010. Nina Spengen, an intern at the design agency SkottKarra, gave a first impression of the BIRTHplay controller on March 23rd at the inspiration days of the Spin Awards.
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12,5 million for new Service Innovation & ICT programme
Monday, March 1st 2010. On Wednesday 17-02-’10 the new programme for Service Innovation & ICT (SII) was launched by minister Maria van der Hoeven (Economic Affairs) at the Dialogues House in Amsterdam. The main goal of this innovation programme is to turn the Netherlands into thé European knowledge-centre for smart information- and media services and for the Netherlands to become the European knowledge-centre for financial logistics.
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Creative Industry workshop successful
February 8, 2010. European Design Centre in cooperation with European Commission’s Enterprise & Industry Directorate-General, the City of Amsterdam, the Association of Dutch Designers and IIP Create organized the workshop “Towards a Pan-European initiative in support of creative industries in Europe” on 4 and 5 February 2010. The subject of the workshop was the growing economic importance of creative industries for growth and innovation and how to create the most favorable environment for the further development of those industries. The outcomes are summarized in The Amsterdam Declaration which can be downloaded here.
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DME Award 2010
January 29, 2010. EDC has been elected Secretary of the newly established N-DME consortium. This organization follows the work of the DME partnership, assembled under the ADMIRE project and responsible for the organization of the DME Award. After the DME Award 2009 edition in Eindhoven, EDC, together with the N-DME partnership is already working on the next edition, which will be hosted by Lisbon in 2010. Keep an eye on the DME website for upcoming announcements and call for entries.
www.designmanagementeurope.com
New identity EDC
January 20, 2010. The European Design Centre has a new house style! The Utrecht design agency Dietwee (www.dietwee.nl) has translated the versatility of our projects into a strong new logo and visual style.
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Minister van der Hoeven opens MedSim
On Thursday 10 December 2009, Minister of Economic Affairs Maria van der Hoeven, Mayor of Eindhoven Rob van Gijzel and Member of the Provincial Executive for Noord-Brabant Lily Jacobs assisted during a virtual Caesarean delivery.
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EDC participates in All4You IT solutions
November 1st 2009. As of November 1st EDC has participated in All4you IT solutions, which specializes in high-end web hosting and Joomla-based website development. All4you IT is developing web based software solutions for logistics, cloud computing, network security, remote back-up, content management and collaborative working. All4you is hosting and developing various websites for EDC and its spin offs.
www.all4you.nl
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DME Award 2009 in Eindhoven
October 22nd 2009. At the DME Award Ceremony on the 22nd of October, an international public of business representatives, members of the international design and design management community and policy makers gathered in De Machinekamer at Strijp S - a hot spot for the post-industrial creativity which Eindhoven embodies - to award and celebrate the DME Award 2009 winners and honourable mentions.
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Innovation Festival Barcelona
September 10, 2009: Barcelona will kick off the European Innovation Festivals, an initiative led by European Design Centre and launched by the European Commission as part of the PRO INNO Europe programme.
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Interview with Marco Liviantoni from META Group
Name interviewee:
Marco Liviantoni
Name organization/company:
META Group
Your role within the organization/company:
Project manager
Website organization/company:
www.meta-group.com
Geographical location:
Italy (Umbria, Emilia Romagna, Sardinia, Lumbardy),
Slovenia (Ljubljiana), Argentina (Buenos Aires).
What is your relation to EDC?
Partner in EU funded projects
What projects is META Group currently engaged in?
Engaged in projects for stimulating, promoting and implementing policies and actions for the creation of knowledge based and innovative companies in several fields, including design and creative industry. Projects are always accompanied by measure allowing start-ups accessing public and private finance (management of early stage funds).
Marco Liviantoni,
project manager
META Group
Andrea Di Anselmo,
vice president
META Group
IF... Milano (Innovation Festival)
October 5th – 10th 2010 Milan, Italy
Life-improving innovation
The Innovation Festival in Milan will take place from 5th to 10th October 2010 in the city centre. The initiative will focus on life-improving innovation, with the aim to demonstrate the importance of new technologies in our lives.
Through exhibitions, happenings, shows, and more formalized events - like workshops and seminars, focusing on strategic topics - the effort will be devoted to spread the innovation culture, demonstrating the strong innovation character of the Milan area, the strategic importance of innovation for the growth of Italian and European competitiveness and for the improvement of living conditions and sustainable territorial development.
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IF... Kortrijk (Innovation Festival)
October 8th - 25th in Kortrijk, Belgium
Innovation Clusters
From 8 up to 25 October Kortrijk (Belgium) will organize its Innovation Festival; a festival for a broad audience with an international grandeur. The kick-off event will be held October 8th, 2010.
Come to experience the events of IF… Kortrijk, and imagine, design, create and innovate with us!
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BIO 22 Exhibition
7th of November 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
BIO 22 (22nd Biennial of Industrial Design) is an international design exhibition - that highlights current trends in contemporary design trough its selection of well-designed products with an emphasis on quality, originality, and innovation - which will be on display from 7 October to 7 November 2010 at the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, Fuzine castle.
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DME Award 2010 Ceremony
December 10th 2010 at MUDE in Lisbon, Portugal.
The DME Award Ceremony will be held on the evening of December 10th at MUDE (Museum of Design and Fashion) in Lisbon, Portugal. The event will be combined with other international events taking place in Lisbon during the same period, namely the IF Innovation Festival that will run from November 29th until December 11th (www.innovationfestival.eu), and the Triennial of Architecture, taking place from October 14th 2010 until January 16th.
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ServDes
Service Design and Innovation Conference
December 1-3 2010 in Linköping, Sweden
The Nordic Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation, ServDes, is the premier research conference to bring researchers and practitioners together to discuss, share and evolve the emerging discipline of service design, and design-related service innovation.
The 2010 conference will be held in Linköping, Sweden and the theme for ServDes.2010 is ExChanging Knowledge. Changing Knowledge is about investigating the fundamentals in service design and challenging the knowledge inherited from the disciplines from which service design has grown. Exchanging Knowledge refers both to integrating knowledge from other fields & the ongoing conversation between conference participants with their various roles; consultants, students, in-house, clients and academics. The scientific programme will be composed of papers that have been peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process.
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