CREative MAking for Lifelong Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

CREative MAking for Lifelong Learning

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Creativity and culture; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The CREMA project will develop and inspire creativity in adult learning. Through the development of innovative methods the project will make use of cultural heritage collections in museums for creative making. Many museums are increasingly working with a variety of creative spaces or maker spaces – places where you can make things, create and innovate. We want to build on methods for creative making and combine that with knowledge, collections and skills found in museums. This will then be used to inspire adults to work together across generations, to invite marginalised groups and people with special needs, and to find audiences who do not visit cultural heritage organisations today because of how they are traditionally percieved. Through this we hope people will learn new skills (both digital and traditional crafts), social competences through cooperation, creativity, entrepreneurship and history. Particular attention will be paid to how to use museum material in a safe way which is both inspiring and does not harm fragile material. Another area in focus will be innovation and entrepreneurship. We will show and encourage people to use cultural heritage material to create new things, which can be used for new purposes in creative industries.

The project will develop guidelines for how to work with creative making with the three target groups of the project; people with special needs, people who don’t visit museum today with a focus on marginalised groups, and making people meet and work together across generations. Guidelines will also be produced describing how you can work with museum collections in maker activites and how to inspire entrepreneurship through the activites. The guidelines along with an analysis will be gathered in a publication describing creative making in museums, which makes the results easily available for museum staff and adult educators to take part of.

By focusing on the target groups and the cooperative element of making we hope more people will feel included. Making people work together, in particular across generations, increase wellbeing. In that way we hope this project will contribute to the larger goal of a more cohesive society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 279029 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stiftelsen regionmuseet i Skåne & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Historie og Kunst
• Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum
• SOCIETA’COOPERATIVA BAM! STRATEGIECULTURALI
• SUOMEN MUSEOLIITTO – FINLANDS MUSEIFORBUND RY
• UDRUGA ZA RAZVOJ URADI SAM KULTURE RADIONA
• NGO Creative Museum