Wallonia European Creative District (WECD)

The 'Wallonia European Creative District' (WECD) is a framework programme that puts creativity and innovation at the centre of the Walloon regional development. The WECD aims at enhancing the potential of creative and cultural industries to revitalise the industrial transition of the Walloon economy. The WECD project is meant to impulse a new creative economy dynamics by fostering collaboration between Cultural and Creative Industries and more traditional industries, through the leverage of regional clusters. The project has been built around a dynamic of policy learning: the Walloon region learns from European peers and it shares with them its good practices and pilot actions’ results. The success of the project was internationally recognised by the European Commission and Wallonia is now part of several international networks, projects and think tanks related to cultural and creative industries.