Innovative Partnership for Art and Culture Transition : in the field of the Adult Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovative Partnership for Art and Culture Transition : in the field of the Adult Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

Artists, creators and small cultural non-profit organisations are facing for years an increasing social and economic instability, in most of European countries. The ongoing health crisis due to Covid-19, which makes the cultural sector step into hard times and deep changes, will further weaken their working and living conditions in the coming years. Women, people from less privileged background, from deprived neighborhood, with a migration background or a low level of academic education, are particularly disadvantaged in this situation. Yet their voices, narratives and perspectives are essential to ensuring living democracies, a strong social cohesion and a real cultural diversity. In the same way, cultural small non-profit organisations struggle to sustain a third path between public cultural services and cultural industries. Though, they are essential for the quality of daily life within local communities.

To address the problem with a fresh perspective, we built an original partnership, which includes a University, a public enterprise specialized in adult education, and five private non-profit organisations from the arts and culture sector. Our project intends to design and implement innovative methods, contents and tools in order to train our target group in the concepts and issues of current major transitions: social, economic, environmental, digital and democratic. We especially aim to achieve four crucial objectives:
– Build innovative approaches, expertise and tools for adult education in the arts and culture sector through the topics of transitions.
– Gain a better understanding of the concepts, issues and new models at the heart of current major transitions and their potential of renewing and change making for the professional arts and culture sector in Europe.
– Identify in these transitions the levers and opportunities enabling the target group to secure and sustain his activities and design innovative, inclusive and sustainable socio-economic models.
– Enable the target group to acquire forward-looking and useful knowledges, skills and tools in order to individually and collectively act for change.

Through this international and cross-sectoral cooperation, we will implement several learning and training activities, designed as a social innovation process and gathering around the project many complementary skills and perspectives.

UNDERSTAND. A first phase will bring together, after a preliminary research and a needs assessment, 210 participants (target group members, adult education professionals, external experts and various local stakeholders such as academic institutions, local partners, local authorities), through 7 co-creation labs on the topic of transitions in the arts and culture, implemented locally by each partner.

ENVISION ALTERNATIVES. Two international peer-to-peer trainings – each gathering 35 participants from the target group and partners organisations – will lead to design collectively innovative frame and contents of the local pilots and of two intellectual outputs : an easy-to-use digital tool kit, supporting the target group to design innovative and inclusive socio-economic models ; a short web serie, highlighting the issues faced by our target group and emphasizing new alternatives to overcome it.

ENACT. Through 6 local pilot trainings, we will experiment these new methods and tools with 120 participants from the target group, enhance it through their feedback and hopefully foster the emergence of innovative socio-economic experimentations implemented locally.

IMPACT AND DISSEMINATE. We trust that the INPACT project will enhance the personal and professional background of participants and lead them to impulse significant changes in their professional path, activities and organisations. By disseminating a useable and useful digital tool kit and a playful and creative web serie, freely available in 7 languages, we hope to develop the target group’s ability to think and act for change within their professional sector throughout Europe.
The active promotion of the “real utopias”, created by participants through the local experimentations, will contribute to open new perspectives to address social and economic difficulties of artists, creators and small cultural non-profit organisations and to spread new narratives about possible and desirable changes within the arts and culture sector.

Finally, we hope that the sustainability of the original INPACT partnership and its several local satellites will initiate new alternatives to strengthen the resilience of the arts and culture sector through adult education. The current situation shows us that developing the capacity of individual and organisations to anticipate crises, face its consequences and design innovative solutions to overcome it, are not prospective topics but urgent concrete needs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 282900 Eur

Project Coordinator

LES TETES DE L’ART & Country: FR

Project Partners

• SYNERGEIO MOUSIKOU THEATROU ASTIKIMI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA
• UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI
• CIUDAD INDUSTRIAL DEL VALLE DEL NALON SA
• Centro di Creazione e Cultura
• Szubjektív Értékek Alapítvány
• VIESOJI ISTAIGA KAUNO IVAIRIU TAUTU KULTURU CENTRAS