Moving and Learning
Project number: 143380-LLP-1-2008-BE-KA1SCR

“Moving and Learning” project is a project financed by European Union within Long Life Learning programme and joins partners from 6 countries: Italy, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, France and Romania. The coordinator is international organisation ENCATC.
Official website: www.encatc.org/moving-and-learning

Duration: 24 months, november 2008 – november 2010

Target groups:
The long term target groups belong to categories that relate directly and indirectly to the effects of the artists’ mobility:

• Potential Foundations and donors: especially those who do not support artists mobility or if they do it they do not insist on the learning component
• Cultural industry sectors interested by the industry and creative focus and the enterprise prospect of artists’ mobility (skills, attitudes, values and knowledge)  as a preparation for entering the creative industries
• Different European and international associations and network that focus on arts, education, mobility
• Policy makers of transversal sector concerned by the study: schools, enterprises, social work, employment. By offering some models for understanding of the artist’ mobility as a Life Long learning tool, the project hopes to provide routes for these sectors to enhance their thinking and practice.
• Academics and institutional policy-makers within creative disciplines in higher education that will receive Demonstrations or documentation of processes which evidence risk-taking and innovation generated by artist’ mobility against current conventional practice.

Short description:

• Analyze the situation of Artists’ mobility in Europe, namely, in at least 10 Member States from an educational and life long Learning point of view. The analysis should concern:
• The different traditions of artists’ mobility when linked to an educational and professionalisation approach;
• The professional education paths of the artists and alternative ways for development and acquisition of specific skills namely the artist that can create new knowledge and art forms in the context of the pragmatics of the creative industries as well as people who ‘will aspire to contribute to society in a full and meaningful way
• The capacity and potential of artists’mobility to be an instrument of life long learning scheme;
• Study the forms of European artistic mobility that bear the potential of learning effects that prepare the artists to become the people who are likely to lead and innovate within the creative industries of the future on the one hand; and on the other hand creative, reflective and imaginative people that question the practices and values of civilised society regarding the creative disciplines.
• Formulate recommendations addressed to policy decision-makers aiming at the improvement of the artists’ mobility as  a non-formal educational tool for the promotion of creativity and the development of new innovative skills

Espected outcomes:

The main output of the project “Moving and Learning” will be the production of a European comparative study on:

• the learning and innovation effects of artists’ mobility
• the non-formal educational character of the mobility as well its potential as LLL tool for the artistic sector.
• The provision of evidence indicating that the sector needs a constant influx of creative and self-motivated individuals capable of managing complex working portfolios. Continuous creativity, the continuous production and development of new ideas, is critically at the core of many for their continued success.

The learning effect and impact of artists’ mobility in the EU and elsewhere in the world has not yet been properly assessed. This study aims at analysing and comparing the learning (formal and informal) potential of artists in mobility and at identifying standards, conditions and schemes of learning that contribute to innovation.

It is expected that the project will carry out a sampling research in at least 10 EU countries and produce a comprehensive study with strategic recommendations to policy makers, funders of mobility and training institutions for cultural management.

Partners:

European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centers – ENCATC – www.encatc.org
Mediana sprl - mediana@skynet.be
CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE E LA RICERCA TEATRALE – IN Teatro - www.inteatro.it
Fondazione ATER Formazione - www.oltrelequinte.it
Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto / Deustuko unibertsitatea – www.deusto.es
Regional Observatory on Financing Culture in East-Central Europe - www.budobs.org
Centre of Professional Training in Culture – www.cppc.ro
Politiques publiques, Action politique, Territoires – PACTE - www.pacte.cnrs.fr

Project coordinator for Romania:
Camelia Popescu,
Head of IT&C Department
Tel.: 0788-88.93.43
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