Overview: The Diversity Mixer project aimed to foster diversity in the production of the cultural and creative industries of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

Together with its strategic partner, RIJEKA 2020, the CAS team used this project to give the “diversity” of its slogan a firmer grounding in the workplace as well — that is, in the composition of the workforce, in the content that workforce produced, and in the audiences it addressed.

During 2019, the project surveyed existing “diversity management” practices in the public and private sectors of the cultural and creative industries at both local and European level, and identified transferable models. An international conference, The Invisible: Diversity in Culture and the Creative Industries, was held, addressing diversity in the sphere of content.

In 2020, capacity-building activities were carried out for the staff of organisations and companies, with the aim of influencing public policy-making and embedding new criteria into public funding systems. In October 2020, the City of Rijeka, together with cultural institutions and organisations in Rijeka and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, signed the Diversity Charter.

Project duration: October 2018 – October 2020

Funder (Donor): Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme 2014–2020 of the European Union

Partners: University of Rijeka, CAS, Academy of Applied Arts, Croatian Business Council for Sustainable Development (Zagreb), ECOC 2020 Rijeka

Project website: https://rijeka2020.eu/program/kuhinja-razlicitosti/skupovi-i-konferencije/diversity-mixer-politike-i-prakse-u-kulturnim-i-kreativnim-industrijama/

Outcomes / Highlights

1. A survey of existing diversity management practices in the public and private cultural and creative sectors at local and European level, resulting in the identification of transferable models.
2. The international conference The Invisible: Diversity in Culture and the Creative Industries, dedicated to diversity in the sphere of content.
3. Capacity-building activities for staff of cultural organisations and companies, aimed at informing public policy-making and embedding new criteria into public funding systems.
4. The signing of the Diversity Charter in October 2020 by the City of Rijeka together with cultural institutions and organisations in Rijeka and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.
5. Publication of the book Diversity and Inclusion Handbook in Cultural and Creative Industries.

Together with Tatjana Aćimović, Sanja Bojanić wrote the Diversity and Inclusion Handbook in Cultural and Creative Industries.

Team:

Sanja Bojanić, Kristina Stojanović Čehajić, Marin Lukanović, Marko-Luka Zubčić and Kristina Smoljanović.