Culture industries in old industrialized regions: a successful strategy for innovative regional development?

The proposed paper adresses the contribution of culture and culture industries to regional development in old industrialized regions. The need for innovative regional development strategies in these regions is high, because traditional stragies have not been successful. But how to arrange and build up innovation in a milieu, which as a rule, is not innovative? It is difficult to promote innovative milieus in old industrialised regions. Bottom-up approaches to benefit from endogenous potentials are difficult to build up in regions, which are dominated by actors, who are not innovative in general. Discussions about innovative regional development strategies and systems focuss on the analysis of the socio-economic field, the organisation and perspectives of regional economies, building up regional cluster as a concentration of innovative economic activities or questions of regional governance. I suggest to add the promotion of culture industries to this appoach. Culture in an old industrialized region: a contradiction? The paper will argue that regional promotion strategies strengthening the culture industries need to focus on a long-term and regionally orientated perspective. Key recommendations for implementing process-orientated strategies should be; the integration of the culture industries as an action field in regional development concepts; the exploration of existing culture industries profiles; the development of ideas and projects; the formulation of flagship-projects (e.g. the new Guggenheim-Museum in Bilbao) to act as a catalyst; the development of a communication network to link important actors. It will be difficult, even for old industrialized regions, to focus only on the development of endogenous potentials, e.g. the culture industries, which can only be one part of a whole regional development strategy. Exogenous support, in form of financial public support by the nation state, the funds of the European Union and the regional policies, has to concentrate on and develop regional 'networking' in these regions. Culture industries can function as one part of an holistic regional approach.

1. Wochenbericht POS 522 [POS522]

10/04/18 to 15/04/1

2. Wochenbericht POS513

(15/05/17 to 21/05/17

Cyclic volcanism at convergent margins: linked to aarth orbital parameters or climate changes?

EGU2010-13373 The frequency of volcanic activity varies on a wide rangeof spatial and temporal scales, from <1 yr. periodicities in single volcanic systems to periodicities of 106 yrs. in global volcanism. The causes of these periodicities are poorly understood although the long-term global variations are likely linked to plate-tectonic processes. Here we present evidence for temporal changes in eruption frequencies at an intermediate time scale (104 yrs.) using the Pleistocene to recent records of widespread tephras of sub-Plinian to Plinian, and occasionally co-ignimbrite origin, along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which accounts for about half of the global length of 44,000 km of active subduction. Eruptions at arc volcanoes tend to be highly explosive and the well-preserved tephra records from the ocean floor can be assumed to be representative of how eruption frequencies varied with time. Volcanic activity along the Pacific Ring of Fire evolved through alternating phases of high and low frequency; although there is modulation by local and regional geologic conditions, these variations have a statistically significant periodicity of 43 ka that overlaps with the temporal variation in the obliquity of the Earth’s rotation axis, an orbital parameter that also exerts a strong control on global climate changes. This may suggest that the frequency of volcanic activity is controlled by effects of global climate changes. However, the strongest physical effects of climate change occur at 100 ka periods which are not seen in the volcanic record. We therefore propose that the frequency of volcanic activity is directly influenced by minute changes in the tidal forces induced by the varying obliquity resulting in long-period gravitational disturbances acting on the upper mantle

A Model for a Multidisciplinary Faculty-Mentored Research-Internship Hybrid

The Applied Learning Experience (ALEX) program at The University of Tampa pairs multidisciplinary teams of UT students with local companies to solve real-world problems. Tampa Bay organizations provide problems or creative opportunities that may benefit from a multidisciplinary, inquiry-based approach. Teams of three to four students from different academic majors then collaborate to produce a deliverable for the organization within a 14-week timeframe. ALEX teams also benefit from supervision by a faculty committee composed of members with subject-area expertise. This session will the present logistics, the challenges, lessons learned, and initial outcomes of the program

Scaffolding Inquiry Across the Curriculum at the University of Tampa: Progress and Lessons Learned

The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) at the University of Tampa focuses on a scaffolded approach to engage students in the process of inquiry and enable students to acquire the skills required to plan and complete an inquiry-based culminating project. The process begins in First Year Experience courses where inquiry is introduced and is further developed in major courses that have been revised to include inquiry projects. Finally, the QEP has increased the number of opportunities for students to participate in research-based culminating projects. In this session, we discuss the lessons learned, the adjustments made, and the outcomes measured to date

Eight Years of FURC: Outcomes and Planning for the Future

One example of an enduring outcome from the Engagement in Undergraduate Research Annual Symposium is the creation of the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), which is an annual event open to all undergraduate students in the state of Florida to present their research in a poster format. In this session, we will present FURC outcomes and survey data. Recently, the planning committee has initiated the process to form a non-profit corporation to oversee FURC and facilitate other statewide initiatives to support undergraduate research. Opportunities for involvement in this new organization, called the Florida Undergraduate Research Consortium, will be presented