The 21st meeting of the Committee of the Regions' Commission for Education, Youth, Culture and Research was focused on the discussion on the most efficient ways to create start-up ecosystems and promote high-tech entrepreneurship among young people, as well as on the discussion on the Committee of the Regions' political priorities in the next 5-year term of the European Commission.
During the discussion on the list of demands in the domains of culture, education, youth policy and sports the CoR should insist upon in the next 5 years, Mr Stewart Maxwell, Member of the Scottish Parliament and EA group coordinator for the EDUC commission insisted that, in addition to economic benefits of cultural assets and heritage which are nowadays widely discussed, we must not loose from sight and neglect their primary social benefits. Ms Gillian Ford, Councillor in the London Borough of Havering added that the importance of culture for health and wellbeing should also be closely followed and insisted on the inclusion of arts among the CoR's list of priorities.
