The project aims to produce a methodology able to identify, strengthen and recognize artists’ soft skills and facilitate the connection between artists and the labour market through the certification of creative soft skills.
The project is therefore directed to artists of any kind of art (from visual to classical arts) at the early stage of their career and organizations dedicated to training, developing and promoting artists with the objectives of:
- Supporting artists in developing new skills that create new job opportunities in non-creative contexts;
- Reinforcing their profile in terms of employability of their artistic profile and skills;
- Developing an innovative approach to recognize, develop and validate competencies in non-formal learning settings.
To achieve these objectives, the first activity will be a research aimed to establish the framework of creative soft skills within the Creative and Cultural Industries. The second activity will be the development of a methodology aimed to guide artists in the identification, exploitation and developing soft skills. The contents produced throughout the first two phases will be structured in an open source toolkit that aims to make the methodology accessible and replicable. The toolkit represents a theoretical and practical base for the last phase of the Creative Soft Skills process that is the Certification of the artists’ soft skills.
The project is supported by the Erasmus + program of European Commission
