Odesa designated as UNESCO creative city
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Odesa joins the UNESCO Creative Cities as a city of literature.
“This 30 October 2019, 66 cities have been designated as UNESCO Creative Cities by the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay,” reads the publication on the UNESCO website.

Odesa is designated as a city of literature.

In 2015, Lviv became the first Ukrainian city to join UNESCO Creative Cities as a city of literature.

The UNESCO Creative Cities Network now counts a total of 246 cities.

The member cities that form part of the Network come from all continents and regions with different income levels and populations. They work together towards a common mission: placing creativity and the creative economy at the core of their urban development plans to make cities safe, resilient, inclusive and sustainable, in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. Cities which currently make up this network work together towards a common objective: placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level. The applicant city may choose as its priority one of seven creative areas: crafts and folk art, media arts, film, design, gastronomy, literature or music.