Pawel M. Stano received M.Sc. (cum laude) in applied mathematics from Jagiellonian University, Poland, M.Sc. (cum laude) in stochastic mathematics from VU University Amsterdam and the Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in 2013. In 2012 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and in 2013 he worked as a R&D software engineer at IHC Systems. He has been working on statistics, applied mathematics, and environmental engineering since 2007, coauthoring over 20 scientific papers, including articles in top peer-reviewed journals and internal technical reports.
Since 2013 he holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in the field of sensitivity analysis, composite indicators and impact assessment. His research is focused on two aspects: development of new statistical methods and implementation of existing techniques to support EU policies in areas such as Environmental Pressures, Cultural and Creative Sectors, Consumer Markets and Small & Medium Enterprises.
Presentation Abstract
Title: Cultural and Creative City Monitor: A tool to measure cultural and creative activities in Europe
The Joint Research Centre, the in-house science service of the European Commission, is working towards the development of the Cultural and Creative City Monitor. The aim of the tool is to complement the European Commission’s efforts in placing culture and creativity at the heart of policy agendas. This tool could offer the means to assess the impact of specific culture-oriented initiatives on a cities’ economic and social development. By measuring and monitoring these activities at city level, where most people live and most of the creative initiatives take place, national and regional authorities may better prioritize resources and advocate for building upon one of Europe’s key strengths: its talented and diverse creative population. Although many organizations and governments undertake similar type of monitoring, there is currently no common evidence-base which could provide a transparent and shared understanding of how to monitor cultural and creative initiatives. Existing indicators suffer from lack of coverage, breadth, and comparability issues. The C3 Monitor aims to fill in these gaps and it is being built in cooperation with various stakeholders ‒ including DG EAC and Eurostat from the European Commission as well as independent research centers and academic institutions ‒ to make sure that different needs and expectations are taken into account.
