CA Organisation

What?
Creative Amsterdam stimulates the creative industries in the seven cities of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. The programme was initiated in 2007 with a pledge by the region’s local government and other organisations to cooperate.

Why?
More creative businesses
The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is the fifth largest creative metropolis in the world. Many companies establish operational bases here because the area is easily accessible, creatives want to live here, and innovation and commerce go hand in hand. However, it is not always easy for creative players to find one another.

This is what Creative Amsterdam intends to change. Creative Amsterdam aims to promote:

• The establishment of (international) creative companies in the region
• The sale of products and services from creative companies in the region to (international) buyers
• The attractiveness of the region to international creative talent

How?
A one-stop shop for the creative industries
Creative Amsterdam offers national and international companies access to the creative potential of the region. Conversely, it also helps the region’s creative companies find the right facilities to stimulate their entrepreneurialism.

The programme does this through three key activities:

• Concentrating information and activities, by bringing them together in a single physical and digital location (www.creativeamsterdam.nl)
• Facilitating, by improving services to foreign companies and to start-ups and growth companies
• Promoting the creative industries in the region to attract national and international attention.

The Creative Board
The Creative Board is an advisory board that advises Creative Amsterdam in the realization of its objectives. The Board consists of a number of important icons, talents and representative organisations from a wide range of disciplines in the creative industry. Many of the members of the board are successful and enterprising experts that have gained (inter)national celebrity. Read more