The general objective of the Creative Industries Project in Camagüey city is to contribute to the revitalization of cultural life as a promoter of local socioeconomic development, with the enhancement of its cultural heritage.

Cultural heritage is a living entity that, if properly managed, involving all the actors that affect it, including the resident population, and articulating the factors that can affect it positively or negatively, can become an agent that stimulates local socioeconomic development, without losing one’s own values and reinforcing identity.

As specific objectives can be listed:

– Strengthen the capacities of cultural, economic agents and the local population, for an inclusive and articulated management of five creative industries in the fundamental public spaces of the Historic Center of Camagüey.

– The action seeks to optimize the heritage values of the Historic Center, increasing local knowledge for an inclusive and articulated management. – It will promote their incorporation into the policies and management instruments of the Historic Center, in addition to demonstrating how to do it in practice and reflect on its results.

Target groups

• Public cultural and economic projects that operate in selected public spaces.
• People residing around the selected public spaces.
• Decision-makers and specialists (73% women) who work in the Historic Center.
• Decision makers and specialists from 10 Cuban heritage cities that make up the Network of Historian Offices (OHC Network): Havana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, Remedios, Trinidad, Camagüey, Bayamo, Santiago de Cuba and Baracoa.

Translated by: Aileen Álvarez García