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Information and education e-platform for artists - Berlin, DE

Introduction

The Competency Platform for Artists aims at providing artists and/or people engaged in the cultural sector who work as freelancers or are self-employed with an interactive, multilingual internet platform for e-portfolios, information and further education.

Problem

For the City of Berlin, the activation and promotion of the potentials in the art and culture sector especially of their artist target groups, and the stabilisation of small businesses is of central interest. With an high unemployment rate on the one hand but with a very lively and growing number of students at art schools and artists, the city and the region have decided to focus on the potential of the cultural sector.

Description

The Competency Platform for Artists is intended to be an up-to-date, problem-oriented and manageable tool for information and education, which helps artists to acquire the necessary skills to work and present themselves – whether for a short-term project or for a longer period of time.

The Competency Platform has five main working areas:

it provides guidance services;
it identifies gaps in provision of training and professional development and works with partners to address the gaps;
advocacy and representation: bringing the needs of the cultural sector and the target group to the attention of key stakeholders;
it secures involvement of practitioners and education providers for the purposes of developing, piloting and evaluating materials;
it promotes and/or compiles e-learning materials available on the website and through the website.

The Career Centre of the Berlin University of the Arts is responsible for the overall project implementation and management.

Resources used

Total budget: 522,320 euros

Structural Fund (ERDF) co-financing: 258,864 euros

National public co-financing: 265,456 euros

EU involvement

This practice was presented at the Fourth Best Practice Conference New Horizons in Graz, Austria on 15 November 2006. The conference aimed at promoting exchange of experience and dissemination of best practice between authorities involved in the implementation on EU Structural Funds Programmes in Europe. It was destined to contribute to improving quality of implementation of Structural Funds on the basis of project presentations and visits.

Contact info

Career & Transfer Service Centre at the University of Arts Berlin
Angelika Buehler (Project manager)

Project start date

Links

Visit the Competency platform for Artists (in German) website Visit the GRAZ Best Practice Conference website

Download the 'Information and education e-platform for artists - Berlin, DE' Report (PDF, Eng, 141 KB)

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Economy knowledge & employment > Urban economy

Keywords

Specific sectors, Employment