📋 Tender Overview
CREAC: Strengthening vocational education and training in the arts and culture through the creation of the Caribbean Resource Center for Artistic and Cultural Entrepreneurship is a 3 year capacity building project in vocational education and training (VET) in the Caribbean region.
Consortium: ARCS, Culture Solidali – ARCI (Italy), AHS, Asociación Hermanos Saíz (Cuba), CNCC, Consejo Nacional de Casas de Cultural del MINCULT – Ministerio de Cultura de la República de Cuba (Cuba), Sociedad Cubana de Derecho e Informática de la Unión Nacional de Juristas de Cuba (Cuba), IDEAC, Instituto de Desarrollo de la Economía Asociativa (República Dominicana), and Africa Moment (Spain).
Objectives: a) Promote skills and opportunities for entrepreneurship in the artistic and cultural sector, contextualized in the double transition for the Caribbean region; b) Build capacities among organizations that offer VET in the arts and culture sector, based on the professional development of educators, the exchange between organizations, and the creation of innovative training materials for the promotion of cultural entrepreneurship; c) Strengthen the link and public-private partnerships between VET and the cultural and creative industries (CCI).
Activities: a) The creation of the guide Caribbean practices in cultural entrepreneurship , the Handbook of ethical, inclusive and sustainable cultural enterprises and a training programme for artists and VET providers; b) The creation and set-up of a permanent virtual (CREAC website), relational (CREAC Network) and physical space (CREAC Fair) offering workshops, networking opportunities and visibility to cultural ventures.
Capacity building is envisaged in 27 consortium staff, 125 artists (at least half under 35 years of age, at least half women) and 125 VET personnel, 25 cultural ventures, 100 organizations from the VET sector and/or CCIs. More than 100,000 people will be informed about project results.
