Paolo Montemurro is the founder of Materahub, an organisation working to support the cultural and creative sector in Italy. He has been the project manager of numerous pilot EU-funded initiatives, focusing on capacity building, policy development, and ecosystem creation for the sector. These initiatives particularly emphasise creative entrepreneurship, internationalisation, EU networking, and the cross-fertilisation of the cultural and creative sector with other economic and social sectors. Paolo is the coordinator and organiser of the Creative Business Cup in Italy and serves as an expert and consultant for Italian regions developing actions to support the cultural and creative sector.
With Materahub, he supported the bid preparation of Matera as European Capital of Culture and the capacity-building programme for local cultural operators during the preparation phase. In 2020, he was selected as an expert within the “EU4Business” programme to support the development of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in Eastern Partnership countries. Today, he represents Materahub in the EIT KIC Culture and Creativity, where the organisation is a founding member.
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