Before the COVID-19 Pandemic the cultural and creative sectors (CCS) represented around 3.5% of all products and services made in the EU and employed 3% of the European workforce.
However, the CCS are among the most severely impacted at this time. According to Eurostat, the COVID-19 crisis may affect about 7.3 million cultural and creative jobs across the EU. Despite the difficulties, CC sectors have shown tremendous solidarity amidst the crisis – offering their works for free online, easing feelings of isolation and contributing to the mental and emotional health and well-being of people in these challenging times. The crisis is testing the EU’s citizens capacity to think and act in unconventional and innovative ways to respond to these unprecedented circumstances.
With the aim of supporting the cultural and creative sector, the 2-year Erasmus+ NOVA – Flipped studio “Successful Innovator” has just started. Six partners from Lithuania (SIF & BKC), Cyprus (CSI), Bulgaria (K&C), Romania (CPIP) and Italy (CESIE) will collaborate together over the next 2 years to achieve the NOVA project objectives:
- to set up and provide access for upskilling pathways in the format of flipped studio “Successful Innovator” which sets out to enhance learners’ skills development and competences that reinforce creativity and innovation in CCS;
- to equip adult learners with the set of innovative solutions in CCS during COVID-19 to unveil opportunities that can be sought in a critical context and contribute to the resilience of the cultural and creative sectors;
- to develop assessment tool to track the progress of adult learners to become successful innovators in CCS;
- to support adult educators in effectively running the flipped studio “Successful Innovator”.
The components of the cultural and creative sector in which the NOVA project will focus on are: Music, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Audio-visual Arts, Games & Multi-media, Design & Fashion, Artistic crafts.
The NOVA project aims to answer the needs to stimulate European awareness of innovative solutions undertaken during the COVID-19 in CCS as well as to empower and train people to be successful innovators in this field. In order to achieve these objectives, the project will move its first steps developing a set of innovation solutions in CCS during COVID-19. It will consist of at least 20 good practices based on storytelling and e-directory selected by partners of the best innovation solutions in Europe which will be presented as micro-learning modules. Other products of the project will be:
- Creation of the training in the flipped studio “Successful Innovator” organised in modern educational environments, adapted to the pandemic situation and using 4 NOOCs (Nano Open Online Courses) for self-learning.
- Release of the self-assessment test with at least 50 closed questions and visual learner’s presentation “What does innovation in CCS means to me?”.
- Publication of an E- Toolkit for Adult educators “Modern flipped studio ‘Successful Innovator” to support facilitators to run effectively the flipped studio.
Through its products the project aims to address adult learners willing to develop their sense of innovation in order to get employed, become self-employed or volunteers in the CCS and to adult educators who could successfully run the flipped studio “Successful Innovator”.
Our role in the project will be to conduct the quality assurance monitoring and lead all the evaluation activities in order make sure that the products developed and the activities implemented in the next 2 years by the partners are in line with the NOVA project’s objectives. We will also organise an event in Palermo addressed to stakeholders and adult educators with the aim of spreading information about the project products and provide them with concrete tools to be applied in their work with adult learners willing to work in the CC sector.
If you would like to learn more about NOVA, please write to Simona Palumbo: simona.palumbo@cesie.org.
About the project
NOVA is cofinanced by Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2, Partnership for Creativity.
Partners
- SOCIALINIU INOVACIJU FONDAS (SIF) (Lithuania, coordinator)
- CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA (Romania)
- CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD (Cyprus)
- SDRUDZENIE ZNAM I MOGA (Bulgaria)
- Birštono kultūros centras (Lithuania)
- CESIE (Italy)
For further information
Read more about NOVA.
Contact Simona Palumbo: simona.palumbo@cesie.org.
