Artists in Creative Education

From September 2010 to October 2011, in the context of the EU programme “Artists in Creative Education”, KKA and the European partners Creativity, Culture and Education (Great Britain), Cultuur-Ondernemen (Netherlands) and Drömmarnas Hus (Sweden) examined the effects of the participation of artists in regular class instruction in schools: How exactly does this kind of work benefit the pupils? What competencies do artists need for this kind of work? And how do the impulses generated by artists in schools affect children in disadvantaged regions? The project centred on a comparison of and exchange of experiences regarding the work being done by professional artists at primary schools in the participating partner countries. The project was carried out within the framework of the EU support programme “Culture 2007–2013”.

The results of the project and the exchange between the participating artists were summarised in a manual for artists, which will be available for download as of October 2011.

http://www.artistsincreativeeducation.com
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EU Group of Experts

 
In 2011 and 2012, an EU group of experts is examining the role of public institutions of the arts and culture in the promotion of better access to and wider participation in culture. KKA is participating in the meetings of this group and is involved in the preparation of recommendations for specific measures designed to implement models and examples at national and European level, as well as in the formulation of associated proposals and political recommendations. The working group’s objective is to prepare, within the given time period, a handbook for political decision-makers and public institutions of the arts and culture that will provide an overview of good practice examples and lessons learned in the Member States and discuss the challenges involved in the implementation of appropriate measures.
 
In 2011, against the background of the “EU Work Plan for Culture 2011–2014”, KKA was delegated by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture to participate in an EU working group focussing on the priority area “cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and accessible and inclusive culture”. The European Commission has established such working groups in six priority areas in order to initiate an exchange of experience on time-tested models/programmes and good practice examples between political decision-makers and experts at European level. The groups are working in the context of the “open method of coordination” (OMC).
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Grundtvig Project: mix@ges

KKA is involved in the European Grundtvig project mix@ges. The European partner project mix@ges is one of 55 projects being funded by resources of the Grundtvig programme from 2011 to 2013. The Grundtvig programme is part of the EU support programme "Lifelong Learning". The application for support was jointly submitted by KKA, the University of Strathclyde (Scotland), Entr’Ages (Belgium) and Zveza društev upokojencev Slovenije / ZDUS (Slovenia) under the aegis of the Institut für Bildung und Kultur (Institute for Education and Culture, IBK) at Akademie Remscheid (Germany).

The intergenerational project mix@ges
• examines and evaluates the influence of creative media work on the enhancement of intergenerational communication and mutual understanding,
• creates new spaces for cultural expression and learning as well as new ways of accessing culture and
• enhances the competencies of both elderly and young people in media and ICT.

In Austria, three intergenerational media workshops in museums are also being planned, implemented and evaluated, and a conference will be held to provide an opportunity for exchange with participating international cultural educators, media artists and media experts.

All the results of this European cooperation will be incorporated into a “toolbox” of methods for creative new-media work with intergenerational groups and will be presented at a concluding international conference in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in the spring of 2013.

Supported by the Lifelong Learning programme of the European Union

Coordination of comACE | Community of Knowledge on Arts and Cultural Education in Europe

ComACE is based on an initiative by members of the civil servants’ network ACEnet. Since 2009, the participating countries Austria, Belgium, France and the Netherlands have been working on a virtual compendium and glossary devoted to comparative cultural and education policy in the respective countries. On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, KKA has been responsible for the coordination of Austria’s contributions since the beginning of the project.
http://comace.zzln.nl

TRADUKI

is a European network for literature, in which the countries of Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Switzerland participate.
TRADUKI was jointly initiated by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, KKA, Goethe-Institut and S. Fischer Stiftung.
www.traduki.eu

ERI SEE – Establishment and support of education networks

In the context of ERI SEE, the Education Reform Initiative of South Eastern Europe, KKA contributes to regional cooperation at the level of education policy. Regional focuses in the EU integration process are supported by Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Norway as well as through the cooperation of the education ministries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Romania and Serbia with relevant partner institutions (www.etf.europa.eu, www.oecd.org, OECD, RCC and CoE).

Task Force Fostering and Building Human Capital (TFBHC) of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)

The central objective of the Task Force is to promote regular dialogue between education networks, university networks and research networks in South Eastern Europe. In the context of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), which is the successor organisation to the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Austria (the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Science and Research) has held one of the two co-chair positions in the Task Force Fostering and Building Human Capital (TFBHC) since 2008. Romania currently chairs the Task Force; the second co-chair is Croatia.The coordination office is at KKA. In March 2009, the TFBHC held an international conference on »Fostering and Building Human Capital for Sustainable Knowledge Societies in South Eastern Europe« in Bucharest. In June 2009, the strategic priorities and measures jointly identified on the basis of the conference results were adopted by the members of the TFBHC as a regional action plan for 2009-2010.
www.taskforcehumancapital.info