Digital Artisans Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Artisans

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

If the first step towards career launch was graduating, today a youngster must posses the ability to use the latest technology, applications and IT Tools in order to fit in the professional and educational world. This has led us to join forces with our partners and develop a solution that will not only treat the symptoms but will actually target the problem itself. We have designed a solution model for a WEB 3.0 Platform (Digital Artisans) with a general purpose: to build functional communication and workflow between three target groups: ARTISANS, COMMUNITY and THE BUSINESS SECTOR, allowing them to interact on regional/ national/ European and international level and create opportunities mainly for the young artisans. The main goal of the web platform is to create wide network where artisans can interact, learn, bring ideas into reality and find jobs; and vice versa: the same system will allow the communities and business to present talents, host events, projects and hire people.It is designed to resolve three main problems:the lack of IT tools designed for young artisans that can facilitate their good practices and easen their career launch, development, project management and network sharing;the problems every young artisan faces in job finding process and in finding art talents for collaboration;the existing loop between artisans and their future employers i.e. between the main target group and the two subordinate target groups.Hence, project’s specific objectives embody:development of IT Tool for online working in order to increase employment of Artists and Artisans;leverage job finding for artisans and facilitate art talents search and match;minimize the loop between young artisans, communities and businesses on the labor market.The platform will allow young artisans to: create and build a personal / professional profile; find, post, manage, collaborate and finance projects and network. On the other hand, it will allow the companies, educational institutions and NGOs to: create a profile, browse, support projects and hire art talents. The artisans will have the option to use a message system tool encouraging networking between artisans worldwide. The third group (businesses) will benefit from the platform via feature for talent search and offer sponsorship on art projects, allowing them to find and employ / hire young professionals. Our Consortium forms team of professionals with different background and specific expertise from five different countries coming from: Macedonia, Poland and United Kingdom.The further upgrade of the online platform would offer advanced features for artisans, communities and businesses.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 30610 Eur

Project Coordinator

Company for consulting and other services Inception Enterprise LTD Skopje & Country: MK

Project Partners

• Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi
• EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION NETWORK