Successful Innovators on Digital Culture Citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Successful Innovators on Digital Culture Citizenship

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The COVID 19 crisis has hit the cultural and creative sectors (CCS) particularly hard. Education and training opportunities for youth have also been interrupted for long period, creating long-term implications for post-COVID-19 recovery. Although the pandemic intensified the uncertainty and anxieties for the future, it also helped to create new business models with market potential for young people, in helping to address both the major societal challenges that CCS are facing in light of this global crisis but also the opportunities for them that the crisis has brought to the fore. Building on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on both the education and the CCS, strategic complementarities can be developed.

SIDE will develop tools as measures to accelerate digital transformation and use of digital means to adapt to the way creative products, cultural goods, and events are created, managed, disseminated, accessed, and consumed. The project aims to equip young people with the necessary educational material and tools, as well as with competencies needed to come up with creative and innovative solutions and overcome unprecedented risks and skills inequalities, as well as to unveil professional opportunities that can be sought in a critical context.

The partnership consists of six different partners from six diverse EU countries (BE, IT, RS, CY, GR, PL), which will work together, in the fields of formal, informal, and non-formal education, supporting the CCS by empowering young people through enhancing necessary digital skills for promoting Arts and Culture, to be successful innovators by developing initiatives on Digitalisation of Culture, in local and international level, assessing their level of capacity through quantitative and qualitative self-evaluation, and stimulating at the same time EU culture awareness for future generations, thus contributing to the recovery resilience of the CCS.

The SIDE project aims to involve young people and particularly young artists for participating in the project’s activities and events, but also for any stakeholder who would like to learn more about the project’s subject.

This will be done via the following outcomes:
-“Digital Culture Course” (IO1)
-“Methodology Toolkit on Digitalisation of Culture and Creative Sector” (IO2)
-e-Assessment of digital skills in Culture and Creative Sector(IO3)

This project will also include four transnational project meetings that will contribute to the preparation, implementation, and evaluation phase of the project as well as six multiplier events organised in each partner country.

During the project, one Blended mobility for young people in Italy will be organised: Two representatives from each partner organisation will participate in a 3 days blended mobility. The aim is to train and empower young people in becoming Successful Innovators in Digital Culture Citizenship, supporting further the Culture and Creative Sector in the context of digitalisation and the new realities that COVID-19 caused.

The Expected impact of the project is the following:
-Increased skills and knowledge of young people, young artists, youth workers in each partner country to successfully implementing the tools in practice;
-Improved access towards sustainable education through awareness of skills and qualifications gained by using the IOs, which are adapted in the new, digital demands for the Culture and Creative Sector.

In particular, the most important impact on the direct target group will be their enhanced competencies in Digital Skills for Culture and Creative Sector. The proposed project supports the implementation of full innovative, creative and interactive digital tools to increase knowledge, skills, and capacity of young people and other stakeholders, especially from the field of Art and Culture, for achieving a better understanding of contacting activities, initiatives and that enhance the cross-sectoral collaboration, support the implementation of new technologies and promote the resilience and sustainability of the Culture and Creative Sector. The biggest impact of the project is to recognize the importance of using modern methods that adapt to the demands of society’s needs and socio-economic challenges.

The project will provide equal opportunities for everyone to participate, in educational tools, interactive practices, and networking opportunities. All the information and material gathered through this project as well as the developed innovative tools will be digitalized and uploaded on the SIDE website. The partnership will capitalize and build on each other’s knowledge and expertise, as well as experience from best practices in their national context, for future circulation and transfer of know-how. Last but not least SIDE project’s results and outcomes will have both international and local impact as well as clear and tangible benefits and more opportunities for all stakeholders involved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170867 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR VIEWERS INTERESTS AISBL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Ce.F.A.S. – Centro di Formazione ed Alta Specializzazione
• CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND INNOVATION
• Europejska Fundacja na Rzecz Wspierania Rozwoju Innowacyjnego
• Danube 1245
• ENOROS CONSULTING LIMITED