CESIE is part of the Sector Skills Alliances ArtS – Skills for the creative economy.
ArtS – Skills for the creative economy – is a three-year multi-country project (2014/2017), under the Erasmus+ Programme KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, Sector skills alliances. Sector Skills Alliances shall aim at tackling skills gaps, enhancing the responsiveness of initial and continuing VET systems to sector-specific labour market needs and demand for new skills with regard to one or more occupational profiles.
In 2014 of the 48 proposals submitted in Europe, only 6 were selected for funding.
ArtS project will exploit the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) potential for creating growth and jobs and enhance cultural economy at regional and transnational levels. It shall define and forecast labour market needs in the CCS in Greece, Italy and Spain; design appropriate teaching and training methodologies and deliver a joint training programme that will respond to these needs. These objectives will be pursued through the following activities:
- the development of a VET curriculum that is outcome-oriented and responds to specific skill-shortages in the creative and cultural sectors market;
- the facilitation of networking and labour mobility in the CCS;
- the innovation of the VET sector through the implementation of an original training programme that will be based on flexible learning methods, tailored to the needs of the end-users.
The joint vocational training programme will provide low-skilled, unemployed and self-employed artists with the opportunity to:
- update their professional skills and knowledge and acquire management, business and networking skills, with a special focus on export possibilities;
- guide them into finding work or internship at a company of their choice;
- present their work in a joint project at the project closure that will be prepared by the learners themselves, as an exercise of effective networking.
The project will cover the following areas a) Craft; b) Cultural Heritage; c) Design; d) Music; e) Visual arts; f) Literary arts g) Performing arts.
It will be implemented in accordance with the EQF/ECVET and EQAVET principles and produced results will be disseminated using Open Educational Resources in four European languages. The ArtS consortium consists of diverse organizations, experts in their fields. CESIE is one of the five Italian partner and It will be responsible for the development of the Curricula and the overall project’s evaluation. Diversity is an asset in creating an innovative yet targeted training programme and in ensuring the project’s impact, sustainability and dissemination.
The project’s activities were launched at the partnership kick-off meeting, held in Athens, Greece on 10th and 11th of March. During the meeting the partners discussed the expected results and the next activities to be implemented during the lifespan of the project.
In the next few days it will be undertaken a needs and a state-of-the-art analysis in Spain, Italy and Greece about the sector skill shortages and ECVET strategy.
If you are a freelance artist, an employer, employed and unemployed from the cultural and creative bodies, or a professional associations museums, galleries, etc…and you are interested in being involved in the next project’s activities please contact Irene Pizzo: irene.pizzo@cesie.org.
