Cities and Programmes
Cultart is a new practical programme in cultural management initiated to fulfil the gaps in the academic educational courses. The Cultart academy aims to train international groups of young specialists and thus will invite 125 young specialists from Bulgaria, Austria, Greece, Italy, and North Macedonia.
The Academy starts in Autumn 2022 and will cover the full range of creative industries in 5 programmes (Festivals, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Design and Architecture, Applied Arts). Each programme takes place in one of the 5 partner cities.
Festivals in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
#sharefestemotions from 12 to 16 July 2023
Visual Arts in Austria, Vienna
#unitevisualarts from 20 to 24 January 2023
Performing Arts in Ioannina, Greece
#enjoyperforming from 8 to 12 of May 2023
Design and Architecture in Lecce, Italy
#discoverdesign from 21 to 25 November 2022
Applied Arts in Skopje, North Macedonia #combineappliedarts from 27 to 31 March 2023
Modules and Case Studies
During the 5 programmes the international groups of young cultural managers will meet up to 10 key speakers, experts and practitioners, who will mentor the 10 specified modules of the Cultart programme – Cultural Innovations, Business & Entrepreneurship, Management & Administration, Project Development, Fundraising, Leadership, Conflict Management, Media & Communication.
Learn more about the training programme here.
What is essential to the Cultart programmes is the Cultart Case Study Challenges when the groups will have the chance to participate in the real working process of a cultural organization in each city programme. The 5 Case Study Organizations will outline their main tools and models, their current work and projects, and will give a specific ‘challenge’ to the groups. The Case Study Challenge is the final exercise where the group can present their new skills of giving cultural management solutions.
Read more about the 5 Case Study Organizations.
Education, Creative Industries & Business
Based on the 5 Case Studies solutions Cultart will create 5 business models for the 5 Cultart management programmes.
Cultart also envisages the creation of a Start-up platform for open access to video lectures, training sessions, research and EU programmes, and an instrument for financing new cultural projects and organizations. Learn more here.
We are Cultart
The training programme was created by a team of the University of Vienna, using the experience gained from the educational programme of the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation – Forum 2019, thanks to which since 2015 many workshops, lectures, and meetings with mentors from the country and abroad had taken place.
Cultart is a cross-sectoral and international initiative realized by 6 teams from 5 countries. In addition to the leading organization ‘Plovdiv 2019’ Foundation are — Clearly Culture from Vienna, the team of experts who created the master’s programme in Cultural Management at the University of Vienna, also the International Centre for Sustainable Development – Ioannina, Greece, The Chamber of Commerce of Lecce, Italy, the Alliance for Innovative Practices from Bulgaria, and Edu Centre in Skopje, Northern Macedonia.
Team Lecce
The CNA – National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises of Lecce is one of the largest associations in the South. CNA is the national general system and unified representation of small businesses, their entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized enterprises, and their associated forms. The CNA formulates strategies for the artisan sector and SMEs, recognizing the centrality of the market in a modern economic system where the quality, identity, and values of artisan entrepreneurship, are affirmed in a modern culture of know-how. It also has experience with the development of ICT-based learning solutions concerning youth unemployment: with a new pedagogical model that focuses on the labor, crafts, and entrepreneurship, and forms of learning related to it.
Cultart project is under theErasmus+ programme, Youth – Partnerships for Cooperation, administered by the Centre for Human Resources Development – National Agency under the Erasmus+ programme
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Lithuanian National Agency of Education Exchanges Support Foundation. Neither the European Union nor Lithuanian National Agency of Education Exchanges Support Foundation can be held responsible for them.
Project No. 2023-1-LT01-KA220-VET-