Museum Professionals Erasmus Project

Project Title

Museum 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 addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

PROJECT NAME: Museum Professionals – Leading organization: Ankara University (Turkey)

PARTNERS: Etnografya Museum (Turkey), Turkish Women Culture Association-TURKKAD (Turkey), Euro Innovanet (Italy) , Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust LBG(UK), University of Sibiu (Romania)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

In addition to protection, preservation and exhibition of heritage, the “modern” museum becomes a public space, a place of enjoyment and expression of cultural identity for a wider audience. Museums are going beyond the traditional dichotomy between preservation and enhancement and rewriting the same mission in new terms. Successful museums have to be aware of the interrelated issues of cohesive leadership and visitor focused public programming and make sure that visitors have easy access to all that museums do. All these could be done by a skilled and trained museum professional who can also guide other staff for the long term success of the museum. In some of the larger national and private museums in Turkey, such a staff and resources have been dedicated, but often this professional profile is not available in most of the museums. This project has been designed in order to answer to those needs and is be implemented through transferring the innovative best practices of the F-museum project implemented by Euro Innovanet (http://europeanvirtualmuseum.net/evm/index.asp.html). The first specific purposes of the Project is to transfer a vocational training program of F-Museum project and to revise it in accordence with the needs of the museums in Turkey through conducting current situation and needs analysis as well as an impact assessment. The curricula uses will use F-Museum project’s innovative methodology. This methodology will use the ICT and other educational tools aimed at training and retraining current and potential museum professionals through an e-learning portal . This portal was designed and functionalized in accordance with the curricula designed within the project . The other purpose of the Project was to develop both a vacational training program for museum professionals and academic curricula for the graduate students in the Department of Museum Education of Ankara University to enhance skills and vision of the potantial museology students through developing capacities of the lecturers at the university. This academic curricula will be a reference program for the museology and other relevant departments in the other universities in Turkey

TARGET GROUPS: 1. Museum professionals (MPs) who are still working in the museums (VET)
2. Academic and lecturer staff in the Department of Museum Education (and other related departments) of Ankara University (Higher Education)

PROJECT ACTIVITIES
1. Current situation and needs analysis in museum sector of Turkey
2. Impact assessment
3. Development of training program /curricula (VET/HİGHER EDUCATION)
4. Designing an e-learning portal and structured Web site (See .http://cagdasmuzebilim.ankara.edu.tr)
5. Dissemination activities and multiplier events (For more details see.Part.5.4)
6. Learning/Teaching /Training Activities (Training of trainers) (More information See. Part.5.5)
7. Project Monitoring, Evaluation Activities and Transnational Meetings (More information See. Part 5.2)
1.OUTPUT RELATED ACTIVITIES
1.1. Current situation and needs analysis (Q1) : To analyse the current situation in museology sector in Turkey and to determine the specific needs of the museums (see. attachment. Intellectual outputs) Output: 1 report on current situation and needs assessment (see. Part 5.3/Q1 and Intellectual output (Q1) in dissemation platform)

1.2. Impact assessment Study: To reveal the impact of adopting alternative training models on the situation of museums and to provide a road map while revising the transfered vocational training model. Output: 1 report on impact assessment study (see. Part 5.3 /Q2 and Intellectual output (Q2) in dissemation platform)

1.3. Development of the training program /curricula (VET/HİGHER EDUCATION):To improve vocational qualifications of museum professionals and also potential labor force in the sector (majorly tourism), a new curricula will be designed in line with derived/defined needs found in the analyze phase (O1,O2)
Output 3 report on : training program /curricula (VET/HİGHER EDUCATION), teaching (Process-System) Operation Program, Syllabus, Presentations, Training Material, Hand-outs (see. Part 5.3 /Q3 and Intellectual outputs -Q3 in dissemation platform)
Development : Training Manual, KPI and Measuring Manuel
Implementation In-house Training, Training of Trainers, Pilot Applications and Preparation of Operating Manuel

1.4. Designing an e-learning portal and structured web site: Output: E-learning portal and structured web site for project

2. Multiplier Events and Dissemantion Activities for conducting to raise awareness and to disseminate project findings and results.

3. Transnational Mee

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 221472 Eur

Project Coordinator

ANKARA UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TRUST LBG
• EURO INNOVANET
• UNIVERSITATEA LUCIAN BLAGA DIN SIBIU
• TURK KADINLARI KULTUR DERNEGI
• ETNOGRAFYA MUZESI