Opening More Employment Gates for Art and Music Students Erasmus Project

Project Title

Opening More Employment Gates for Art and Music Students

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Context/background of the project: The context for this project lies in the discrepancy between the skill sets required by the greater music/arts industry and the traditional education available at music/arts departments of European Conservatories and Music/Arts departments of European Universities. The traditional education of these Institutions does not offer basic skill sets such as team building, business establishment, marketing, web site design and tournee/event design which are amongst the most important facets of Project Management. It is precisely these elements that are most often pre requisite to the enhancement of employability in the greater music/arts industries.

The objectives of our project are therefore directly derived from this present circumstance and are the following:
• To impart to students of set fields the basic skill sets mentioned above
• The transformation of this knowledge into real world applications
• The employment of students in small apprenticeships within the frame work of the project.
• The placement of students in real work situation through post project termination placement in existing arts and music event (festivals, museums, small business, summer schools) internships.
• The development of practical abilities to allow the students to become self employed and to travel the path of entrepreneurship.

Out methodology consists of the creation and implementation of a project management twelve week course and curricula that addresses all the above mentioned skill sets. Besides this, the theoretical portion of the course, the small apprenticeships in various subjects such as poster design or web site design will supplement as the applied portion of the course. The synthesis of these two facets, the theoretical and applied will result in the real world experience of the internship.

The expected results and impact of this project are multiple.

1) A higher rate of employment of artists and musicians in the work force.
2) A higher rate of self employment in the fields of art and music.
3) The creation of a novel course and curricula.
4) An increase of desirability for the Conservatories and Universities that adopt this project course.
5) The expansion and development of teacher careers.
6) The collection and publication of project course materials and its free dissemination.
7) The involvement of industry as an influence on and benefactor of this project.
8) The involvement of a media complex ( internet, print, visual and audio) in the implementation and dissemination of the project.

Main outputs of the project include:
1. “Art and Music Students in Business” Course Module:
2. Comparative Country Analysis on Business – Art Cooperation
3. Guidance and Course Content Book

OMEGA project was run by a consortium of 5 higher education institutions and 2 non-profit organizations. The partners include:
1. Yaşar University, Turkey (Coordinator):
2. Be Artive, Greece (Partner): The non-profit arts management company
3. CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA “E. F. DALL’ABACO, Italy (Partner)
4. IONIAN UNIVERSITY, Greece (Partner)
5.CIT CORK SCHOOL OF MUSIC, Ireland (Partner)
6. FUNDACIO PRIVADA UNIVERSITAT ABAT OLIBA CEU, Spain (Turkey)
7. INSTITUTE OF EUCATION AND YOUTH STUDIES ASSOCIATION (EGECED), Turkey (Partner)

Within the framework of OMEGA project, the following activities were successful undertaken:
1. Transnational Project Meetings:
2. Final Conference on Business & Art Cooperation
3. Learning/Teaching/Training Activities (6-15 April 2016)
4. Business Network Activities and Case Studies

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 127068 Eur

Project Coordinator

YASAR UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Conservatorio Statale di Musica “E. F. Dall’Abaco”
• IONIAN UNIVERSITY
• Be Artive
• CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• EGITIM VE GENCLIK CALISMALARI ENSTITUSU DERNEGI
• Fundació Privada Universitat Abat Oliba CEU