Skills for promotion, valorisation, exploitation, mediation and interpretation of European Cultural Heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

Skills for promotion, valorisation, exploitation, mediation and interpretation of European Cultural Heritage

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 : Sector Skills Alliances in vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

<< Background >>

After 2018 European year of Cultural Heritage, professionals and institutions, public and private, working to preserve, promote, valorise Cultural Heritage around Europe increased their awareness of the importance of their role for the future of the common European house. This awareness made also more visible the need for a process of upskilling and reskilling most of the sector workforce, particularly its management especially on those skills that were felt essential for the sector challenges.

<< Objectives >>

EU Heritage worked to – promote innovation in Cultural Heritage by providing professionals working in the sector with competences allowing them to structure more competitive, sustainable, audience centered, digitally ready initiatives;- raise awareness of the importance of entrepreneurial, digital and other transversal and soft skills among the skills needed by sector’s operators;- build a strong alliance in the sector;- promote cross-fertilization between cultural heritage and other sectors

<< Implementation >>

In order to fully achieve these objectives the project has:- researched the impact of cultural heritage on the economy of the countries in the partnership;- listed and engaged the most relevant organizations and professionals working on the sector;- designed and developed a competence framework – designed and developed an innovative training program – designed the online environment of the project to be the space of the educational offer with a MOOC and a space for the sector professionals

<< Results >>

The main results of the project have been:- an in depth research on existing training offer and perceived training needs in the sector- the development of a training program focused on entrepreneurial, digital, transversal skills for the professionals and future professionals of the sector delivered through a MOOC and supported by a social networking platform- two level testing of the training, one online with over 1000 learners in the MOOC and national pilots in each partner country

Project Website

https://www.euheritage.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 985353 Eur

Project Coordinator

CONSORZIO MATERAHUB INDUSTRIE CULTURALI E CREATIVE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION PLATAFORMA LA CULTORA
• RESEAU EUROPEEN POUR LE MANAGEMENT ET LES POLITIQUES CULTURELLES
• CAMARA DE COMERCIO E INDUSTRIA ITALIANA PARA ESPANA
• FONDAZIONE FITZCARRALDO
• INSTITUTUL NATIONAL PENTRU CERCETARE SI FORMARE CULTURALA
• UNIVERSITA TA MALTA
• HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY