CO.Create 2016- CO.Design education and training for creative professionals Erasmus Project

Project Title

CO.Create 2016- CO.Design education and training for creative professionals

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Co-Design is a process involving end-users, customers and other relevant stakeholders in the design process to ensure the outcome meets their needs. Creative Professionals and designers, who want to implement their customer project with CO.Design methods require new skills and competences, which are not trained in the participating organisations and regions so far. That was the motivation for the initiative of six partners committed to supporting the creative industries sector across Europe: Creative Region (Austria), University of Art and Design (Austria), Academy of Fine Arts and Design (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Deusto University (Spain), Creative Industry Kosice (Slovakia) and the European Creative Business Network to create and distribute brand new Co.Design pedagocic materials. Based on an in-depth best practice research on Co.Design good practice in Austria, Spain, Slovenia, Denmark, Slovakia and the Netherlands we developed a Co.Design Best Practice Report in English presenting 25 Good Practices extracted to 8 major findings being integrated in the Co.Design curriculum combining cutting edge design theory with hands-on knowledge and hands-on examples. The course will be accessible for free to any educational institution wishing to implement it in their programme, and will include both study materials and coaching to the teacher. The Curriculum was piloted in a hands-on work based Co-Design training in Austria, Holland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain by trained CO-Design trainers under various socio-economic and socio-cultural context in order to make it broadly transferable to design universities and other design teaching providers. Finally all learning and findings of the Piloting was incorporated in the collection of various CO.Design training materials. In addition to the transferable and adaptable Co.Design Curriculum, we developed a Co.Design TraintheTrainer Handbook, Online Educational Learning Ressources and a CO.Design Essentials. The last one is available in English, German, Slovak, Slovenian and Spanish. All materials are downloadable on www.cocreate.training. The outputs of CO.CREATE empower designers with new entrepreneurial skills in CO.Design, new competences, skills and approaches to do better business, offers them new job opportunities through work based learning and Online learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 244507 Eur

Project Coordinator

CREATIVE.REGION LINZ & UPPER AUSTRIA GMBH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAT FUR KUNSTLERISCHE UND INDUSTRIELLE GESTALTUNG LINZ
• CREATIVE INDUSTRY KOSICE, NO
• UNIVERSIDAD DE LA IGLESIA DE DEUSTO ENTIDAD RELIGIOSA
• STICHTING EUROPEAN CREATIVE BUSINESS NETWORK
• DEN ERHVERVSDRIVENDE FOND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE UMT
• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI