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4/8/2023 0 Comments Facilitation Competences for Culture and Adult Education Professionals - The CIP projectBackground to the project CIP promotes the acquisition of Facilitation Competences for Culture and Adult Education Professionals to bring about creativity and innovation competences of citizens/adult learners. The cultural sector is extremely vulnerable due to certain structural peculiarities: - Most of the cultural activities are based on direct encounters, such as performances, exhibitions, concerts, festivals, - Cultural activities and stakeholders largely depend on public funding; hence their income is often unstable - The sector is characterised by a relatively high proportion of self-employment, reflecting the independent and specialised nature of many culture occupations - Due to the lack of links to formalised employment, culture professionals often immediately face precarious situations since the usual back-up systems such as temporary work or support schemes do not work. However, culture professionals also have strong potentials since they: - Have specific skills and competences which are attractive in other societal fields (education, business and the social sector) - Can design and deliver extremely attractive educational offers for students and/or adult learners - Can contribute to solving societal problems: in the social care sector, for instance, there is an increasing demand for tailormade and adequate cultural activities - Are experts in creativity, their offers may target the business sector: they may support innovation processes within organisations or enrich the format of innovative workshops, conferences and marketing techniques. On the other hand, the pandemic has made clear that society needs culture, not only for leisure but as a social fabric for meeting, for value exchange, meaning making, creativity, imagination, innovation and learning. Culture InnoPreneurship (CIP) wants to effectively link offer and demand. The project aims to help artists and culture professionals develop new services by developing an entrepreneurial mindset and taking on board 21st century skills in order to better reach out to their audiences in the new socio-cultural context and to develop their potential as creativity skills coach in business, community work, formal and non-formal education and training. The project also aims to develop adult learning models and material to better convey the creativity skills offered by the culture professionals into innovative thinking skills for the adult learners. Objectives The project seeks to make culture and adult education professionals ambassadors for innovation and creativity in their local environments. They will acquire the necessary competences to create innovation, to take on board digital learning and collaboration formats, to plan and deliver their offers on a high didactic quality level. In this way, the CIP project supports culture and adult education professionals to become more resilient to deal with the effects of the pandemic. They will develop more resistant services and business models based on a sound entrepreneurial mindset, by taking on board 21st century skills to better reach out to their audiences and to develop their potential as coaches of creativity skills in informal and non-formal education. OBJ 1: To empower creativity and innovation for citizens on grass root levels: (Specifically trained Culture and Adult Education professionals will induce innovation and social cohesion in their communities. They will become agents for innovation in community-work, the socio-cultural sector, education and heritage and may also contribute to innovation in business.) OBJ 2: To develop entrepreneurial competences: (CIP will equip Culture and Adult Education professionals with the entrepreneurial skills and competences and tools to develop products, services and projects which support the value proposition of these services.) OBJ 3: To develop digital competences: (Culture and Adult Education professionals will develop digital competences to create new attractive (blended) learning and collaboration offers and use innovative interactive development spaces provided by CIP.) OBJ 4: To develop facilitating competences: (In many cases both Culture and Adult Education professionals need facilitating (transfer and/or didactic) competences to express and transfer their expertise in counselling, training, support and guidance. CIP will provide skills for Competence Oriented Learning and put special emphasis on storytelling competences.) Implementation In the CIP project 7 partners from DE, IT, BE, NL, EL and PT will jointly work along 4 work-packages to develop its central outputs: 1. Developing a Competence Oriented Learning Concept both for facilitators and citizens 2. Planning and Delivering the CIP Training and the CPD programme for the Adult and Culture Professionals 3. Creating the the CIP Learning Suite as Virtual Learning and Development Space 4. Curating the CIP Market place and Exhibition The CIP Competence Oriented Learning Concept will be developed based on the approach of “Design-Based Collaborative Learning” which aims to enable AE and culture Professionals to create to “Facilitate Open Learning in cultural contexts”. The instruments used in this approach will be applied to plan and deliver open learning and development offers for disadvantaged groups. The CPD (Continuing Professional Development) will be planned based on R2 (the facilitation approach) for the AE professionals. It is a qualification programme to become “Facilitators of Cultural Learning and Development”. The project partners will jointly develop the CIP Learning Suite as Virtual Learning and Development Space, which is based on a system of OER learning platforms and mobile apps. The CIP market place will be developed as project matching and funding platform and piloted by the partners in their culture learning projects. The CIP project will be extensively disseminated, to the European networks mainly via online channels, and locally via direct encounters within the partner networks of like minded institutions, NGOs and self-help organisations. The project will be internally and externally evaluated. Results The project aims at 3 directions: 1. Professional Development and qualification of the group of adult education and culture professionals 2. Implementation of cultural offers in local/regional pilot projects for adult learners (facilitated by the professionals) 3. Development and invention of a substantial implementation and transfer programme for the European AE and cultural sector Concrete outcomes and results of the project will be: Result 1: CIP COL&V Approach, which is a Competence Oriented Learning and Validation approach to plan the CPD for culture and adult education professionals. Result 2: CIP CPD, which is a modular Continuing Professional Development programme in blended learning modality for Culture and Adult Education Professionals. The CPD programme is consisting of an inventory of digital learning contents, delivered in synchronous online events, a Face-to-Face C1 leaning event and a follow-up pilot phase in which the culture and adult education professionals will apply the CIP approach in local civic projects. Result 3. CIP - Learning Suite is a capacity building space for Culture Professionals including • an e-learning platform (for learning units) • e-portfolio for individual and group spaces and • direct connection to the validation software. Result 4: CIP Market Place: The fourth CIP Result is a virtual market-place which intends to match the cultural learning offers from the culture professionals with the ideas and the demands of potential clients. It is a comprehensive system of interlinked digital services and apps promoting offers for learning and facilitation. It contains: • A virtual exhibition of local culture projects developed in the CIP learning and development approach, • A matching platform for Learning & Development Professionals and their “clients”, local projects and initiatives working and a • A specific web-based interface for cultural learning in mobility. For more information on CIP project visit https://cip-eu.org/
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