Resources for Education in Writing Radio Plays to Inspire Transition into Creative Employment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Resources for Education in Writing Radio Plays to Inspire Transition into Creative Employment

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

RE-WRITE will contribute to European goals of innovating skills development & digital competencies, tackling social exclusion caused by mass unemployment due to Covid & marginalization. It will contribute to achievement of Euro 2020 aims interrelated & mutually reinforcing social inclusion, education & employment targets. Specifically: – The European cooperation in education & training (ET2020), Development of skills policy, EEAL, & promotion of European value.
-Covid crisis has caused a sharp rise in unemployment & social exclusion across EU & has disrupted traditional state provisions for dealing with economic disaster, (i.e skills development, digital competencies, encouraging entrepreneurship) (1)
-Unemployment due to impact of Covid is not equally shared across Europe – marginalised groups have been hit hardest (2)
-Europe’s artistic industries have been one of the most harmed economic sectors, with it’s survival now relying upon digitalisation of content (3)
-There is growing market consumption in creative audio content on all digital platforms (4)
-More digitalisation has revealed a skills gap & the “need to address the digital skills shortages within the arts sector.” (5)
RE-WRITE will promote skill development, digital competencies & social inclusion through creativity & the arts, through focusing on the coproduction of a new set of training resources.
RE-WRITE will develop, test and imbed these set of creative non formal learning resources to upskill & nurture the creative artistic talents & digital competencies of adults removed from the labour market, whilst fostering entrepreneurship & employment opportunities for the RE-WRITE learner within the post covid cultural, creative & growing audio digital sectors, across Europe.
The resources will be for the use of unemployed adults aged 18+ (due to economic impact of Covid/or marginalisation eg ex-offenders, migrant communities) who wish to enter the growing audio digital/creative arts labour market, & adult educators looking to support their service users.
The resources will be innovative, inclusive, & transversal in their use & flexibility, to work with the fluctuating safety concerns of a post covid Europe. They will be able to be used within in a group setting, with a facilitator (i.e a prison/community centre) or as a self directed learning resource (i.e at home, alone)
Through a combination of creative writing/drama learning, & multimedia & digital upskilling, the RE-WRITE resources will improve & extend the supply of high quality learning opportunities for unemployed & marginalized adults.
544 participants will take part in the co-production of RE-WRITE across the partner countries, including 192 unemployed & marginalized adults (ex-offenders, migrant communities, older people, women). Other participants include adult educators, arts/culture employers & employees, digital arts entrepreneurs, delivery settings & policy makers.
Activities within RE-WRITE include –
– 5 Transnational Meetings in each partner country
– 1 EU Multiplier Event in Romania
– 4 Local Multiplier Events in each partner countries
– 1 Short term learning mobility for adult educators
– 1 Blended Learning Mobility for 2 unemployed adults from each partner country.
RE-WRITE Results –
O1 – A series of podcasts, this non formal learning resource will develop specific skills/competencies of the learner which are urgently needed in the European creative/digital sector, specifically in the area of creating, writing & recording audio plays.
O2 – An online learning resource equipping learners with the understanding of employers needs/recruitment processes of arts/culture sector, in order to successfully identify & secure employment opportunities with digital & creative employers
O3 – An online learning resource, upskilling learners in innovative ways of using social media to market their own creative & digital works on a national, EU & international level, to create viable, sustainable self-employment, & foster entrepreneurship within the creative/digital sector
RE-WRITE will target 3 groups: Unemployed/marginalized adults, adult educators & delivery settings.
The quality of RE-WRITE’s outputs not only will improve access to the growing audio digital labour market for unemployed/marginailized people on a European level, but will assist in the recovery of Europe’s arts/culture sector in a post covid Europe, as well as offering deeper understanding & continued professional development for adult educators in this field, which can be transferred to engagement with other marginalised, socially excluded groups, in a variety of delivery settings.
They will also benefit from the cross-pollination of ideas & models across Europe, sharing experience of what works in the field of adult learning for marginalised adults, & development of training modules – improving the provision of high quality learning opportunities for adults across post covid Europe – now & in the future

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 292170 Eur

Project Coordinator

No Place Productions & Country: UK

Project Partners

• CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE
• APROXIMAR- COOPERATIVA DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL, CRL
• MERSEYSIDE EXPANDING HORIZONS LIMITED
• CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA
• Asociación La Bien Pagá Espacio Escénico