Following the Development of Creative Industries Cluster in the Northern Region – Macroecomic Survey, ADDICT presented a Strategy and an Action Program, both approved by the Competitiveness Factors Operational Program Management Authority (Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade – POFC) of the Collective Efficiency Strategies (Estratégias de Eficiência Colectiva – EEC) on the Recognition of Competitiveness and Technology Hubs and Other Clusters.

The Creative Industries Cluster was one of the 19 Hubs and Clusters recognized by the POFC, thus allowing it to bidon the Collective Actions Support System (Sistema de Apoio a Acções Colectivas – SIAC) and ensuring the normal activity of the Agency.

Strategic Functions and Axes

It is proposed that the adoption of these axes - Entrepreneurship, Business and Creative Places – allows for the grouping and immediate meaning to ADDICT’s competences and activities. These axes are cross-sectional to the activities, mainly acting as aggregators and organizers, in what regards the action target.

ADDICT groups the following functions in accordance to these axes:

• KNOWLEDGE - Collection and processing of information regarding its members and the Creative Industry sector;

• INFORMATION - Distribution of relevant information to its members and the sector;

• COORDINATION - Synchronization of the actions performed by its members and other cluster entities, and its articulation with the public policies for the sector.