Digital Creativity Against Depopulation: Video Games and Cultural Industries as Drivers of Regional Resilience in Rural Portugal

This abstract was presented at the In-Situ Project Final Conference, held from 11 to 13 May in Valmiera, Latvia. The presentation explores how Fundão, one of the GAME-ER project’s case-study clustersone of GAME-ER's Project clusters and a rural municipality in Portugal confronted with demographic decline and economic marginalisation, has strategically leveraged cultural and creative industries (CCIs), particularly video game development, as a means of enhancing regional resilience and responding to processes of “left-behindness”.