Projects
Learning trajectories
Advancing European performing arts mentoring programmes – is an ERASMUS+ funded project, coordinated by EUNIA (Sweden), in collaboration with FACE-Fresh Arts Coalition Europe (France), Matera Hub (Italy) and On the Move (Belgium).
The overall objective of this project is:
to highlight best practices and examples of mentoring programmes developed, supported and/or facilitated by intermediary organisations and/or funding organisations and
to advance the quality of mentoring programmes that support the internationalisation of the European arts and culture sector, with a particular focus on performing arts (theatre, dance, circus, art in public space, cross-disciplinary and hybrid formats in particular).
This project will be articulated around three main focal points of investigation and experimentation:
how to facilitate the access to key resources and relevant professional information from other contexts – Focus: Market profiles and key characteristics of countries / regions
which mentoring methodologies and tools can be used and further developed to support cultural professionals – Focus: Comparative analysis to existing mentoring programmes
how to organise curated mobility experiences and prospection trips – Focus: Prospection approach (preparation, implementation and follow-ups).
“The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.”
Results
Learning Trajectories handbooks are intended as a resource for any organisation that wishes to develop a professional development programme with the aim of helping live art workers to broaden their thinking, practises and networks beyond national borders.
This document helps you focus on the process involved in designing – or redesigning – the best possible framework for individuals to experience creative, relational and business growth in an international context.
In other languages:
- Handbook 1 - French (.pdf)
- Handbook 1 - Swedish (.pdf)
- Handbook 1 - Italian (.pdf)
This document seeks to provide some concrete advice and discussion points to international development programme organisers on how to create and circulate meaningful resources to participants to help them prepare for their mobility experience.
In other languages:
- Handbook 2 - French (.pdf)
- Handbook 2 - Swedish (.pdf)
- Handbook 2 - Italian (.pdf)
This document highlights the relevance of cross-border cultural mobility and its impact on the professional and creative development of artists and culture professionals. Undertaking a mobility experience helps participants embrace diversity and test approaches outside a familiar environment.
In other languages:
- Handbook 3 - French (.pdf)
- Handbook 3 - Swedish (.pdf)
- Handbook 3 - Italian (.pdf)
Annotated Bibliography: International professional development programmes for the performing arts. Learning Trajectories, March 2022, trajectories.eu
The handbooks are targeted primarily at performing arts professionals and organisations. Specifically, it is aimed at:
trainers and mentors of intermediary organisations providing expertise to cultural managers, producers and artists who seek to operate internationally but who still lack the tools and methodologies to do so;
cultural managers, producers and artists seeking to develop their capacity to operate in a European or international context and who currently have limited experience or who need to strategize their approach in a better way;
European networks and platforms that support the international capacity of their members to operate in a European or international context and that have limited experiences or a need to strategize their approach in a better way.