Capacity development of cultural educators in the digital era Erasmus Project

Project Title

Capacity development of cultural educators in the digital era

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Context
Professional exchange amongst cultural educators across Europe is essential to ensure sustainable existence and competitiveness in the fast changing European cultural landscape. Mobility within the European cultural sector has increased, which has raised environmental concerns as well as questions of access to mobility. Hence, resource-efficient modes of learning that allow participation with limited time and money are needed to complement face-to-face training and exchange activities. These modes of learning require open education and innovative digital practices in order to include those with limited traveling opportunities.

Target Groups and their Needs
With cultural educators we mean both employed and self-employed professionals in the creative and cultural sector from all over Europe that regularly transmit their knowledge, knowhow and experiences to young professionals, peers or professionals. They can include arts educators as well as curators, cultural managers, etc. and be affiliated with the public sector or civil society.

With the consortium of partners we identified the following core topics of relevance to the different project partners and their networks relate to a) creating and sustaining collective impact in the field of culture, b) transcultural knowledge production and transfer, c) working with new migrants and marginalized groups in our communities, d) new forms of community and international collaboration and e) integration of artistic and social work, f) digital education in the creative and culture sector. Each of the consortium partners holds expertise in at least two of the topics and has been engaged in previous projects.

Objectives
– To qualify at least 200 cultural educators in either of the following topics: a) creating and sustaining collective impact in the field of culture, b) transcultural knowledge production and transfer, c) working with new migrants and marginalized groups in our communities, d) new forms of community and international collaboration and e) integration of artistic and social work, f) digital education in the creative and culture sector
– To strengthen the relations and cooperation mechanisms between the consortium of partners
– To strategically disseminate knowledge digitally to at least 1000 further cultural educators throughout Europe
– To provide an open source toolkit for digital education in the creative and cultural sector
Training Activities
3 educational events with 60 cultural educators each
C1 – Creating and sustaining collective impact in the field of culture
C4 – New forms of community and international collaboration
C6 – Digital education in the creative and culture sector

3 educational events with 20 cultural educators as participants each
C2 – Transcultural knowledge production and transfer
C 3 – Working with new migrants and marginalized groups in our communities
C 5 – Integration of artistic and social work

Series of webinars after each educational event to disseminate the results in the forms of lectures, digital peer-to-peer exchange and panels

Digital toolkit for conceiving, preparing, implementing and documenting international online learning to be disseminated at the end of the project

Transnational necessity and necessity for long project duration
Through the set-up of the consortium of partners all European regions are covered and allow diverse perspectives to enter the project. All topics are concerns in the creative and cultural sector all over Europe. The consortium of partners estimates that the topics will remain concerns in the years to come. Hence, it is believed that cultural educators will only remain competitive and their work with societal relevance, if they continue the transnational exchange.
At the same time, the consortium of partners believes that the project will benefit from the long duration of 36 months as it will allow different cultural educators and the partner organizations to bring in their on-the-ground experiences from other projects into the training activities.

Impact
This transnational project will thereby make a significant contribution to open education and innovative digital practices in the field of culture throughout Europe. It will thereby foster inclusion of less mobile cultural educators in transnational education activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 262016 Eur

Project Coordinator

MitOst e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACAO DE ANTIGOS ALUNOS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO
• Discovered Spaces
• kultúrAktív Egyesület
• RUSENSKA TARGOVSKO INDUSTRIALNA KAMARA
• HISA! DRUSTVO ZA LJUDI IN PROSTORE,SOCIALNO PODJETJE
• TILLT AB (SVB)
• Kulturanima