Developing Entrepreneurship Education in Cultural and Creative Industries

<< Background >>Cultural and creative industries are important for the development of societies and are at the heart of a sustainable innovative economy. Based on knowledge-intensive and individual creativity and talent, they create significant economic wealth. Growth in the cultural and creative industries is above average and they create recruitment opportunities - especially for young people - also fostering social cohesion.Vocational training and faculty programs designed for the Cultural and Creative Industries do not include entrepreneurship, business development and managerial skills. Existing entrepreneurship and business development training, on the other hand, are not compatible with real field. The need to fill the gap of a VET program that includes entrepreneurship and business development techniques in the field of CCIs has prompted the project partners. In addition, a cooperation partnership has been established to support CCIs organizations providing training and to develop VET services. Thanks to the activities to be carried out and the training program to be produced in this direction, an inclusive VET program that is compatible with the sector will be achieved and contribute to the field.<< Objectives >>The main objective of the CreaVET Project was to improve the entrepreneurial skills of young people working in the field of CCIs through an innovative VET programme. In a broader sense, the project had the following specific objectives; 1. Building a pioneering cooperation partnership with local and international CCIs2. Improving entrepreneurial capacity of young professionals by developing a non-formal Creative Entrepreneurship Training Programme (CETPRO)3. Minimizing the entrepreneurial challenges of young professionals with one-month online Creative Entrepreneurship Training4. Increasing real-life entrepreneurship experience of young professionals with a 5-day Peer to Peer Learning Activity5. Guiding young professionals to develop their own business models and encouraging them to establish new creative start-ups6. Developing a VET programme to respond to the special needs of CCIs << Implementation >>We implemented the following activities during our project:Preparing Creative Entrepreneurship Training Programme - CETPRO Training programme has been produced in 5 languages and is made available for public as for free of charge.Developing Creative Entrepreneurship Platform - The www.creavet.org platform has been created for the project and is made available also in 5 languages and public use to display the project targets, outputs and, activities and disseminate these to the relevant target groups of our project. Organising Training and Learning Activities:1. Organising one-month virtual training programme: The CETPRO training programme has been implemented online with the participation of 29 young professionals from 4 countries for one-month.2. Organising peer-to-peer learning activity: The face-to-face implementation of the CETPRO programme with young professionals from 4 countries has been realized succesfully after the online training. 3. Organising Dissemination Events: 3.1. Local Dissemination Events in Rheine, Nice and İzmir have been carried out by project partners.3.2 Organising Creative Entrepreneurship Summit in Brussels: A summit in Brusels was held by EDI to disseminate and promote the project.<< Results >>In light of project objectives, we have produced the following outputs to meet the needs of our project target groups:1.Preparing Creative Entrepreneurship Training Programme - CETPRO Training programme has been produced in 5 languages and is made available for public as for free of charge.2. Developing Creative Entrepreneurship Platform - The www.creavet.org platform has been created for the project and is made available also in 5 languages and public use to display the project targets, outputs and, activities and disseminate these to the relevant target groups of our project. The CreaVET project has significantly impacted organizations by fostering a pioneering partnership structure, broadening their network, and building new collaborations. It has improved organizational capacities in project management, Erasmus+ projects, and producing project outputs. Project partners have become more skilled and competent, learning new methods and tools. The project has increased volunteer numbers and reached a wider target audience. Individuals have gained new skills in entrepreneurship and management, and have learned about new opportunities like the Erasmus+ program, enabling them to initiate their ideas and improve their capacities.