CULTURE PRO. Creative path of development. Erasmus Project

Project Title

CULTURE PRO. Creative path of development.

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Culture is a driver and enabler of human development. It reflects business relations and professional life, being a source of many crucial competences. Art and culture are brilliant educational instrument. Moreover both play strong role in opening ones’ horizons and building positive attitudes toward others.
This is crucial in development of managers, who need to develop competences and skills currently most expected by employers, such as: creativity, openness, flexibility, problem solving, out-of-the-box thinking, equality, tolerance and respect. At the same time absolutely basic in conditions of complexity of management processes are: sensibility, mindfulness and cognitive processes, acting through experience, analysing, creation and reflection – humanistic approach, which broaden one’s horizon and bring a better balance. All can be reached through art and culture.

CULTURE PRO is aimed to enrich the educational offer by elaboration, tests and dissemination of innovative, comprehensive programme of development the competences of managers through art and culture.
Further objectives:
• to develop competences and skills of managers;
• to enhance a humanistic approach in management (sensibility, mindfulness and cognitive processes, ability of acting through experience, creation and reflection)
• to enhance diversity and equal treatment in a workplace;
• to raise the awareness of positive influence of art and culture on management.

Project lasted 34 months and was undertaken by 3 partners from 3 countries:
• Orange Hill form Poland which is the company experienced in lifelong learning, adults’ competence development and supporting companies in human resources management;
• KulturAXE from Austria which is cultural association experienced in the fields of fine arts, design, new media, performing arts and architecture they use to foster intercultural communication and exchange.
• Delle Association from Hungary that operates as a platform for the production of exhibitions, study, research, focusing on both art and science and supports programs that promote cultural awareness and social change.
Partners combined their expertise and experience to elaborate educational programmes developing the most required managerial skills through the arts and culture. We used Design Thinking method to set up the model, emphatise the users, create prototypes and then finally test each workshop programme on the group of experienced managers. At the final stage of the process programmes were redesigned in accordance to their feedback. Parallelly partners (in collaboration with final users) worked on designing online edu-platform. Important part of partnership’s work was elaboration the scenarios and creation the video promoting personal development through the arts and culture and the meaning of art in our lives. Partners closed the project cycle with the publication summarising the achievements of the project and giving the inspiration on arts in the process of acquiring skills in our professional life.
Projects resulted with complex learning through art and culture educational programme assisted with supporting tools such as on-line educational, video and publication.

The program was based on new approach of learning through art and culture. Training proposal consists of 2 different types:
Workshops basing on learning through art and culture approach, with following topics foreseen:
a. Art and Revolution (collage / video creation)
b. Big Picture (collage / photography)
c. Jam (music)
d. Mask Play (masks)
e. Moving Images of Happiness (painting / visual arts)
f. Stage and the Lines (theatre)
g. The Word (literature)

2-day strongly interactive workshops of Eat Art – based deeply in local culinary culture and strengthening the capacity of going back to the roots, finding your own pace and developing the sensitivity to beauty and simplicity.

Trainings were complemented by:
EDU- TOOL. Virtual space providing knowledge and developing skills.
VIDEO – “Art and culture in development of human” – interactive film with the possibility to choose the scenario by the user, promoting learning through art and culture advantages and inclusive role of art and culture.
PUBLICATION to: show experience gained during the project, project success, to promote positive attitude towards art and culture and its use in managers’ workplace.
All materials used together provide tangible support for institution interested in realizing the programme or implementing it into their offer.

Project is addressed to managers. It may be used by: companies -HR departments, public and private institutions of culture, public and private educational institutions operating in lifelong learning, NGO’s, business environment institutions, local authorities, institutions of labour market or culture etc. and individual professionals (advisors, experts, trainers) operating on a market, as well as advisory and/or training companies.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 237802,62 Eur

Project Coordinator

ORANGE HILL Sp. z o.o. & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Verein Kulturaxe
• Delle Egyesület