The Manifesto on Innovation and Education in the European Union.

(2009 06 30 21:48)

The manifesto for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation will be published later this year by the 27 ambassadors and will focus strongly on education policy, culture design and research. The draft of such manifesto was produced last week (19 June 2009) in Brussels by a group of inventors, scientists, artists and designers. The main author of the draft is Denmark-based innovation researcher Professor Bengt-Åke Lundvall.

The manifesto will be published in autumn and will concentrate on education, culture design and research. Erik Spiekermann, a professor and typography designer from Germany, will convert the final document into visual form. He said: “The idea is to make something really concise – about as short as the ten commandments – and then have a second level of action points. It needs to be a poster so people can quote it quickly, but it also needs to have depth”.

The manifesto is supposed to contain action point for implementation and is said to have had the impact on the European Comission already. The aim is also to spread the manifesto beyond Brussels to influence innovation and creativity policy in many countries.