Fabel Kommunikation AB Sveavägen 31 | 111 34 Stockholm |08-41 02 24 30 [email protected] | www.fabel.se Contribution to the public consultation on the financial rules for the programmes funded by the budget of the European Union (EU). Our contribution targets the questions: Question 5: What, in your view, would be the appropriate amount for low and very low value grants? Question 9: What mechanism, other than pre-financing guarantee, could be explored while ensuring adequate protection of community funds? Question 10: Based on your experience, do you think current thresholds are still adequate or should they be increased, and why? Question 11: How could the application procedure for both grants and contracts be further improved? Crowdculture.se A market place for participatory culture What would the financial system for cultural productions look like, if we were to create it today? Crowdculture.se establishes an accessible digital infrastructure for micro financing of cultural productions. This is a financial model that supports cultural innovation and market development of Sweden's cultural life. In it’s form, Crowdculture.se provides a market place for an alternative and personally engaging cultural economy, that today has no counterpart- a similar micro-financing project with a cultural focus suitable for Scandinavian conditions is missing. At Crowdculture.se cultural producers, financiers and consumers can contribute to the realization of projects that fall outside the cultural establishment's immediate taste, and thus stimulate the growth of a more vibrant cultural life as well in the city, as on the web. A vibrant cultural repertoire requires parallel infrastructures! The project Crowdculture.se was created as an attempt to fill the hole the dysfunctional market economy with it's inherent logic has left in today's cultural arena. This is a time when most other markets daily develop new ways to utilize crowd sourcing and user-generated knowledge as a support, in order to secure that their products correlate with the market's actual demands. A need that reveals itself, and which the project Crowdculture aims to meet, is an open platform that allows the cultural public to engage in the micro-financing of a thriving cultural scene in their own city, accessible and open for new cultural productions. Crowculture.se invites the culture economy to open up for all the possibilities the internet is offering, and secures that that a rich cultural life not merely excist for, but also because of, the incredible users! Crowdculture.se is a growing community for cultural producers and their audiences. The community Crowdculture.se serves as meeting place for cultural producers, financiers, consumers and institutions. The platform allows producers, which may be an individual idea agent, as well as a more established ensemble, group or association, to share a project description of the production which they wish to realize. All suggested productions together form a sort of ”production library”. Another group of members on the platform are the Cultural consumers. Each active member is paying a small monthly fee that gets lavrege by an investment by the local govenrnment. In exchange to the investment the participant