Sharing Knowledge – Creating Impact Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sharing Knowledge – Creating Impact

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

Our ‘Sharing Knowledge – Creating Impact’ project will bring together the combined skills, knowledge and expertise of 4 cross-European partners – all operating within the museum sector, and offering high-quality educational experiences to their individual audiences; organisations that face similar challenges, yet operate mostly within a vacuum of their own localities, countries and frameworks. Project partners are the the University of Stavanger (Norway), Museum Vestsjaelland (Denmark), Dublinia (Ireland) and York Archaeological Trust (UK). Each organisation is highly regarded in their own country, bringing cultural experiences to huge audiences including schools, families, and experts, through their museums, events, and on-line activity. This project aims to bring together individuals from these organisations to share their experiences, develop working networks, and shape a new co-European way of delivering innovative, distinct and excellent learning activity that widens audiences, develops skills, diversifies engagement and leads to increased sustainability across the cultural museum sector.

The project will specifically invite participants from each organisation to experience how each partner delivers their unique learning offer, working face-to-face with their museum visitors alongside the partner staff teams and volunteers, and receiving mentoring support from experienced managers and leaders in their field. Shared experienced through inter-museum exchange (job-swap) and workshops will provide unique training and knowledge sharing opportunities for all those involved in the project. In addition, by starting to build a working network of educational providers in museums that share common values and ambition, the project will begin to make an impact on how and when people from the very young, through to adults, those who face barriers to participate because of disabilities or who are isolated geographically or socially, want to engage with our individual, but common, European cultural offer. This could be through formal education in schools, colleges or universities or informally within museum galleries with interactive learning hosts, or in outside spaces that have cultural resonance or digitally, where information and engagement is directed into peoples homes through new on-line activity.

We want to start to embed this outward looking ethos, which we hope to generate, in the wider international museums sector, building common networks and developing ideas together to influence the organisations that look after our fantastic cultural assets . Sharing our results through our established national and international networks and Cultural Routes, within which all the partners in this project play a part, we want our project to become a model for creating a wider European network to communicate ideas about how to embed innovative learning in our cultural offer that reaches out to a much wider audiences than we have at present between us, and encourages everyone to get involved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 81936 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER & Country: NO

Project Partners

• Museum Vestsjælland
• York Archaeological Trust for Excavation and Research
• Dublinia DAC