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CRU COWORK

It is a Creative Hub located at the heart of Porto’s art block — Bombarda Art District. They started in 2012,
as a result of a daring dream and an innovative collaborative model, as the perfect place to attract
talented, motivated, and creative people to form a vibrant and diverse community. This hub is aimed to be
the spot where creative people could work (cowork), exhibit (gallery) and sell (store) their creative projects
and brands, to serve both as a platform for launching independent projects, brands and authors, and as
a harbor for those who feel good immersed in a creative environment. CRU is an hub that interconnects
various spheres of creative activity as well as to actively reflect on its social impact while being on
a mission to raise awareness about artistic and creative creation. This network includes coworkers,
designers, and entrepreneurs whose brands are represented in our store, partners, experts, and trainers
who collaborate with the hub.

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Source: https://birmingham.impacthub.net

Birmingham Impact Hub

The mission of Birmingham Impact hub is to help build a fairer, more equal and just city through people,
place and open movements. Mission Birmingham is a social movement, a culture and a way of being,
doing and thinking. Their ambition is to make the city experimental, inclusive, focused on research,
resistance and collective care. The main goals of the hub are: focus on the needs and challenges identified
by the community you want your hub to support and gain their backing; develop a short and long term
vision and mission for your hub that you can use to inspire others; understand your purpose to then select
the most appropriate business model, which might also change as you evolve and develop. When we think
about the users and the people that are connecting with the creative hubs, we should not only think about
the users of a co- working space, but rather think more broadly about potential services, potential value
that a creative hub can have, not only for a freelancer or an entrepreneur, but also for the stakeholders in
the city.
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