Learn to Create – promoting Work-based Learning in Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learn to Create – promoting Work-based Learning in Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Work-based learning in the cultural and creative sector has always been one of the most natural ways to learn or expand your understanding and to develop skills and competences. Based on this the overall aim of “Learn to Create – promoting Work-based Learning in Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries” was to design and test a new work-based learning (WBL) programme in Europe’s Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs). The cultural and creative industries sector (CCI) whose social and economic contribution to the EU as well as its highly dynamic and transformative character in the digital era have been recognised by the European Commission highlighting it as one of Europe’s emerging industries.
Learn2Create partnership was composed of organizations that together represent the three areas the project matched and connected: CCI specialists, VET organisations, and organisations experienced in designing innovative and creative apprenticeships and work based learning. Six partner organisation (Foundationa ARTeria from Poland, Rinova Ltd from UK, Materahub from Italy, Dimitra from Greece, Innogate from Spain and RDA from Slovakia) believe that the modern, creative workplace is a powerful learning environment, with the potential to make vast contributions to employment, productivity and increasing economic competitiveness.
This is why, as a Strategic Partnership in the field of VET, Learn2Create pursued its aims and objectives of developing a comprehensive and tailored approach to promote WBL in the CCI sector working directly with and providing specific support to companies and entrepreneurs from this sector and VET teachers and trainers. The specific objectives were:
• To develop and provide a fresh and tailored conceptual model for effective WBL in CCI.
• To design learning curriculum and course for training VET teachers and trainers how to prepare learners (trainees, apprentices, internships) for effective WBL in CCI sectors, how to support them and how to link with the CCI employers sustainably.
• To test the blended training programme for VET teachers and trainers in piloting countries to assure and actively promote its replicability beyond the consortium and across other EU countries.
• To provide CCI employers with guidance on how to set-up, structure and support effective and beneficial WBL opportunities to learners.
• To link with CCI clusters, to test an innovative mentoring programme for CCI employers on how to set-up and support high quality WBL with their limited resources and with the help of clusters and cluster managers.

The CCI sector is characterised by a series of peculiarities that need to be taken into account and that result directly in specific needs of the target groups (VET teachers and CCI employers):
• VET teachers and educators play a crucial role in assuring high quality in WBL, but in such dynamic sectors as the CCI, continuous professional development is important to assure that up-to-date support to learners and a robust sector specific link between education and the labour market is given.
• The CCI sector is dominated by micro-enterprises, including freelancers, with limited financial, organisational and human capital. CCI employers need to be provided with better support on how to offer high quality WBL opportunities and how to support and manage them effectively within their limited resources.
• The impact of globalisation is being increasingly felt in the CCI sector with businesses being involved in international value chains. This creates the need to better prepare VET teachers and educators how to equip students with a set of skills to enable them to work in an international environment. In the same sense, CCI employers and company tutors need to better be prepared for how to offer WBL opportunities for talented workforce that might come from across Europe.

Learn2Creste developed following results:
• the development of training needs analysis and best practices focusing what VET educators miss in order to better promote WBL for CCI for the job market (IO1)
• a training package (combining non formal learning and online learning) for VET Educators to foster their competences and skills on promotion of WBL in CCI (IO2 – IO3 – IO4)
• a manual for CCI professionals to better understand how to run WBL in their companies and how to increase the benefit for them (IO5)
• the development of a community of VET experts and creative professionals able to create connection and business/VET partnership during and after the project maximizing the mobility prospects and the impact (IO4, IO5, IO6 – UX Comepndium)

Project Website

https://www.learn2create.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 254930,33 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja ARTeria & Country: PL

Project Partners

• DIMITRA EDUCATION & CONSULTING SA
• INNOGATE TO EUROPE SL
• RINOVA LIMITED
• CONSORZIO MATERAHUB INDUSTRIE CULTURALI E CREATIVE
• REGIONALNA ROZVOJOVA AGENTURA SENEC-PEZINOK