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As Kreativwirtschaft Austria, KAT for short, we advocate for creative professionals from architecture, the music industry, books & publishing, radio & TV, design, software & games, film & photography, advertising and the performing arts market.

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Tradition in new splendor: How Martin Dvorak & Florian Schwab bring the appearance of the Wiener Schweizerhaus into the present day

Local advertising and the use of advertising space offer companies numerous advantages when it comes to marketing products and services to potential customers. In this month's story of the month, we report on The Schweizerhaus in Vienna's Prater is a true icon of the Austrian restaurant scene. With the help of creative minds Martin Dvorak and Florian Schwab, it has undergone an extensive makeover and now shines in a new, fresh and contemporary splendor without losing its "Viennese charm".

Creative of the month
Volker Gallasch Speaker Slam II

 

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Hitting the right note: Volker Gallasch prevails in the 16th International Speaker Slam

 

 

Our Creative of the Month and graduate of the creative industry coaching program C hoch 3, Volker Gallasch, wins against 21 nations at the international Speaker Slam in Germany.

News & Interesting
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"Stop it": creativity as a non-violent weapon against bullying

Music as a means of change: The new anti-bullying song "Hör auf" by Ingrid Hofer in collaboration with Elfriede Böhler and Michaela Uitz-Steinhauser from the Bullying Coordination Office of the Vorarlberg Education Directorate. Listen to it now!

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With Content Vienna Connecting at Gamescom

With "Content Vienna Connecting - gamescom", the Vienna Business Agency offers games developers from Vienna the opportunity to take part in the world's largest trade fair for digital games, gamescom in Cologne, and other events as part of gamescom in the period from August 19 to 25, 2024. Apply now until March 11!

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That was the Creative Transformation Summit 2023

Our Creative Transformation Summit #CTS23 took place at the end of November. The theme of the event was the "Triple Transition" - ecological, social and digital transformation. The event brought together experts, entrepreneurs and creative minds in a three-hour online format and generated a lively exchange on forward-looking approaches and innovative solutions.

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This was our C high 3 network meeting on October 10 & 11 in Vienna

For 15 years now, the creative business coaching C hoch 3 (Creative Community Coaching) has stood for interdisciplinary exchange among creative professionals throughout Austria and their economic empowerment - through new collaborations and know-how for individual business models. On October 10 & 11, a big reunion of all runs took place on the occasion of the 15th anniversary.

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Austrian Creative Industries Report 2023

The Creative Industries Report 2023 shows that the Austrian creative industries comprise around 50,000 companies with around 170,000 employees. The sector has made sales of EUR 24 billion, these have increased significantly by 13% from the first Corona year 2020 to 2022. Decisive factors for this are a continued positive development especially of the software sector, the recovery of the creative industries strongly affected by the Corona measures, such as the film and music industries, but also price increases.

In the end there is an idea at the beginning

Tomorrow's competition will be decided in the field of creativity. The potential and benefits of the industry are therefore presented in a new campaign. You can find out more here.

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