Olsberg•SPI has delivered on behalf of the Council of Europe an evaluation of the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-Production.

Olsberg•SPI has been commissioned to analyse the feasibility of CECI and design the future structures and mechanisms to incite co-operation by professionals and public broadcasters of the region, and synergies that can enhance both production and circulation of films from the region.

SPI conducted an economic map of the television production sector in the region, based on a combination of questionnaires, surveys and interviews.

SPI created a development strategy for this innovative ‘virtual’ archive containing material from 100 years of Northern Ireland history.

SPI was retained by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to explore and identify possible goals of the Hong Kong film industry and to recommend strategies for achieving those goals.

SPI was retained by the Maltese government to conduct an analysis of the present infrastructure, policies and resources for the film industry in Malta. T

SPI conducted a major review of the development needs of the Northern Ireland film and broadcast sector.

SPI was the international expert member of the team that worked for Chile’s economic development ministry in analyzing Chile’s current offer to international productions (film, television, commercials).

This was an assignment to evaluate the potential for the growth of the archive as well as possible avenues for its commercial exploitation. In particular, this study examined opportunities for the digitisation of existing content in order to provide wider public access.

SPI was retained in each of the four English regions listed above, in response to the Film Council’s English regional strategy, to perform analyses of the strategies of the screen agencies and to recommend alternative structures of policy delivery.

SPI developed the idea of a media cluster in Govan Town Hall in Glasgow with client Sigma Films. The idea has since grown into the Film City Glasgow project.

SPI was retained to assist in the creation of an agenda for the support of the region's digital media cluster. Specifically, the assignment consisted of a review of existing support structures, an identification of appropriate interventions for the sector and an outline of possible impacts from such support, including inward investment and exports.

SPI undertook an extensive development study on a proposed digital screen initiative, which would create a digital cinema network across the East Midlands region. SPI examined the proposal from the perspectives of technology, business models and market demand.