Loans worth 150 million euros for cultural and creative Spanish SME´s

This program will last seven years (2014-2020) aimed to support the cultural and creative sector which expects a budget of 1.460.000 million euros.

The Creative Europe Program aims to provide support to the cultural and creative sector in order to strengthen cultural diversity and promote the movement of European culture and creativity and reinforce competitiveness in the cultural and creative sectors.

It consists of:

·Media Sub-program focused on the distribution and development of audiovisual projects.

·Culture Sub-program focused on the promotion of the cultural sector, Within the Creative Europe Program, the European Investment Fund and the CERSA, an entity which is affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and whose objective is to help SME´s and those who are self-employed to access financing, have signed an agreement which will mobilize funding worth 150 million euros, 1000 SMEs from the cultural and creative sector will benefit from this loan (including cinema, theatre, music, video game production, performances and editing) in the next two years.

Companies that wish to apply for funding in compliance with the Guarantee Facility for the Creative and Cultural Sector, more information can be found on the web: www.cersa-minetur.es.

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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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