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PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION RESULTS. The participants were welcomed by ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ of the workshop host Petöfi Irodalmi Múzeum, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ of Salzburg Research on behalf of the CreativeCH project, and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ who represented the Institute for Social and European Studies (ISES). The workshop was organised in collaboration with ISES that since 2011 holds the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainability. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Honorary Member of ICOMOS International, highlighted the role of cultural heritage as historical environment of cities and major factor of local cultural identity. He also emphasised the importance of education and professional specialisation in cultural heritage and sustainable development as offered by the ISES post-graduate programme. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ briefly introduced the participants to the context of CreativeCH as a project in the Science and Society programme of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme and the overall theme of the workshop: Cultural Heritage and Creative City / Regional Development. Presentations on cities in Hungary (Budapest and Pécs), Slovakia (Košice) and the United Kingdom (Birmingham) provided a set of examples for discussing the role of cultural and creative industries in the development of cities and regions. Furthermore issues in releasing the creativity embodied in cultural heritage and citizen’s perspectives of the value of cultural heritage / historic environment were addressed.