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Despite the fact, that there was no policy for developing creative georgia until 2015, some of creative industries accounting crafts, fashion and film sectors were actively supported by the ministry of culture and monument protection of georgia. in particular: the catalogue – souvenirs from georgia aimed at promoting craftsmen and their production has regularly being updated; from 2013 onwards georgia has being an important guest at different crafts fairs and exhibitions, such as strasbourg christmas market, l’artigiano in fiera, surajkund craft mela at india, etc.; moc actively supports tbilisi fashion week and mercedes-benz fashion week tbilisi contributing to the networking of national and international designers, connecting the buyers with producers, etc; the georgian national film centre in partnership with enterprise georgia developed cash rebate system in 2015, aimed at attracting international producers and local and international investors to shoot in georgia.from 2015 onwards, creative industries will represent the priority dimension for the ministry of culture and monument protection of georgia as well as for the innovations strategy 2016 – 2020 of georgia that encourage creative thinking amongst young generation, promote exports (though online platforms, such as ebay.com, google play, etc.) and facilitating distance working (through freelancer.com, upwork.com, etc.).ministry of culture initiated the formation of the inter-governmental creative georgia platform composed of the ministry of education and science of georgia, the ministry of economy and sustainable development of georgia, the ministry of sport and youth affairs and the tbilisi city hall. the aim of the platform is to mobilise all available resources at relevant governmental agencies in order to implement joint programmes, projects and events aimed at developing creative industries in georgia.