Sharing subaltern knowledge through international cultural collaborations Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sharing subaltern knowledge through international cultural collaborations

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

“Sharing subaltern knowledge through international cultural collaborations” (SHAKIN’) is supported by six partners from four countries (France, Germany, Serbia, Sweden), with three universities and three cultural organisations, all of them being internationally recognised in their domain of activity. They join their expertise to address crucial contemporary challenges affecting European culture fields by finding new ways to think, work and collaborate, in order to provide students with adequate professional ethos for the jobs of tomorrow.

Market logic, populist policies, migrations and globalisation, ecological transition or digital technologies affected the contexts of culture management, policy, research, and teaching in various tectonic ways over the last decades. But teaching and training in culture fields have largely maintained narrowly professional, nation-based assumptions of culture, politics, participation and education. As a result, learning processes are not just ill-fitting to provide relevant knowledge and “well-equipped” professionals, but are insensitive to excluded, marginalised and oppressed voices and life experiences of today.

To address these issues, we identified three articulated objectives:

1. Connecting academic and subaltern knowledges through sharing research methodologies in innovative forms of thinking, learning and teaching

2. Professionalising (post-graduate) students with new forms of cultural consciousness, nurtured by theoretical tools and endorsed by practical skills

3. Supporting international cooperation through projects including subaltern perspectives

Following these objectives, the goal of SHAKIN’ is to innovate the learning and teaching practice (IO2), in a strong articulation with the dissemination of subaltern methodologies (IO1), and a post-graduate support for implementing international cultural projects (IO3). This will also result in a new short-term curriculum (IO4).

Results

To reach our objectives, we will develop, test and assess

1. A digital handbook “Searching from the subaltern”, which collects and displays research methodologies for subaltern knowledge

2. A toolbox “Diversifying learning environments”, gathering innovative tools for learning and teaching

3. A platform for international cultural project implementation, proposing skills prescriptions and tools, mentoring about intercultural professional experiences, and advocating for new professional ethos in culture fields.

4. A curriculum “Subaltern knowledges for international cultural project management”, articulating the other results of the project in a short-term educational programme.

Description of activities / Methodology used in carrying out the project

In order to produce these resources, we will implement various intertwined activities: Intellectual output production, Learning activities, organisation of eight Transnational meetings and four Multiplier events, Dissemination.

All the partners strongly engage in the collective project, by assuming the leadership of the tasks they are expert for, and by collaborating to other tasks. Two principles orient the division of work: the recognition of the specific expertise of each partner, and the will to collaborate as deeply as possible. The responsibilities are largely distributed, and none of the tasks is supported by one partner only.

Number and profile of participants

During our project we will directly involve approximately 80 university staff (including pedagogical teams in the three countries, guest teachers during the learning activities, and keynote speakers during multiplier events), 40 professionals from European and national (independent) culture scenes and networks, and 88 students, as well as 180 participants for the multiplier events. In addition, our dissemination activities at local, national and European levels will directly reach approximately 8000 people: (post-graduate) students, academics, culture professionals and key stakeholders in the international and European cultural fields.

Impacts

The quality of the strategic partnership will rely on our ability to bring together participants with different skills, expectations and backgrounds for the duration of the project and, ultimately, over the long term. The processes, experience, relationships and insights developed, tested and disseminated throughout the project will

– contribute to socially-relevant and labour market adjusted professionalisation of the (post-graduate) students

– increase the ability of all the participants to cooperate transnationally in a more inclusive way

– improve existing academic curricula and implement innovative learning tools outside universities

– promote the diversification of sources of knowledge and ways of working together, thinking and practicing arts and culture in relation to the current international ecological, social, economic and technological contexts and issues.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 446789 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITE LUMIERE LYON 2 & Country: FR

Project Partners

• BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITAET WEIMAR
• Stockholms Kvinnohistoriska
• ASOCIJACIJA NEZAVISNA KULTURNA SCENA SRBIJE / ASSOCIATION INDEPENDENT CULTURAL SCENE OF SERBIA
• le LABA
• UNIVERZITET UMETNOSTI U BEOGRADU