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TITLE: DICO - Digital Career Stories - Opening new career paths for arts and culture students

AGREEMENT NUMBER: 2020-1-FI01-KA226-HE-092733

FUNDING PROGRAMME: Erasmus + Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices – KA226 - Partnership for Digital Education Readiness.

CONSORTIUM: Turku University of Applied Sciences (lead, Finland), University of Macerata (Italy), Staffordshire University (United Kingdom), Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Hungary), Technological  University Dublin (Ireland).

RUNTIME: from 01.03.2021 to 28.02.2023

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

According to the OECD Responses to Coronavirus (2020) Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) are among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic with jobs at risk ranging from 0.8 to 5.5% of employment across OECD regions. The COVID-19 pandemic is especially hard for the arts and culture students who now have no clear picture of their professional future. At the same time, lecturers of CCS will need to be digitally skilled and confident to succeed in a rapidly changing environment and adapt to new and emerging technologies. Many art and culture lecturers are at loss with the new demands of social distancing due to their very hands-on teaching methods.

In Digital Career Stories - Opening new career paths for arts and culture students (DICO) the project consortium consisting of five European HEIs  have joined their expertise to develop and pilot together an online methodology of Digital Career Stories. The methodology will be used to support students’ professional growth, understanding and well-being through self-reflective assignments and sharing them with peers.

What has originally been implemented as a series of fully hands-on and face-to-face workshops will now be turned into online interactive learning process. In all HEIs the Digital Career Stories method is piloted with variety of Master’s Degree CCS students. The selected MA students come from Cultural and Media Entrepreneurship, Contemporary Contexts of Arts, Creative Design Management, Leadership programme, Creative Arts and Theatre, Cultural Heritage Management, Fine Art, Product Design, Jewellery Design and Fashion and Textile Design.

Key objectives:

- Boosting arts, culture, and creative industry students’ resilience and belief in their future by inspiring them to rethink their possibilities and career strengths through digitally supported professional self-reflection

- Providing piloted and researched Digital Career Story method to the use of art and culture lecturers who traditionally work with concrete hands-on methods in intimate workshop environments.

- Enabling internationalisation, networking and online skills of art and culture students through collaborative digital reflection and career story workshops in the time where traditional student exchange mobility is not possible.

- Intensifying the collaboration of the participating educational organisations in the field of pedagogical art and media based online methods.

Expected outcomes:

The main result of DICO is the methodology that adapts originally hands-on face-to-face process to digital version that can be fully implemented online. The results and experiences gained during DICO and the materials produced will be available after the project in the Toolkit (O5) for Digital Career Stories containing the following sections: 1) Digital Career Stories Methodology , 2) Evaluation and development, 3) Learning materials.

Other significant expected results of DICO are:

- Digital Career Stories produced ;

- Adopted new methodology by lecturers teaching professional identity and providing career counselling;

- Improved professional self-esteem and better understanding of their learned skills by participating MA students;

- Improved digital skills of CCS lecturers in participating HEIs.

The international online adaptation of the Digital Career Story method and the supporting toolkit with materials and recommendations enables the exploitation in other HEIs throughout Europe, since the implementation does not require any expensive platforms.

TOTAL BUDGET OF THE PROJECT € 270.661,00

TOTAL EU GRANT € 270.661,00

UNIMC BUDGET : € 58.272,00

UNIMC GRANT: € 57.272,00

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: prof. Mara Cerquetti

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