Creative Soft Skills is an Erasmus+ project aiming 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 sustainable competitiveness through creative soft skills.
Supporting artists in developing new skills that create new job opportunities in non-creative contexts
Reinforcing artists’ profiles and general understanding of creative competencies in terms of employability
Developing innovative approaches to recognize, develop and validate competencies in non-formal learning settings
latest news from the project
Creative Soft Skills in the artistic field
Creativity is especially important for art. It is an approach that is unique, innovative, effective that thinks outside the box and goes beyond what is obvious.
Newsletter #1
Newsletter #1. The study by Creative Soft Skills partnership with the research and views on ‘Creative Skills for Learning and Work’.
Creative Skills for Learning and Work – Assessing Creative Skills
We have divided the different skills into three parts: technical, people and learning skills.
Creative Skills for Learning and Work – Creative skills supporting all sectors
We chose six main competencies and traits that we considered representing skills that can be learnt through practicing art and are transferable to other, non-artistic contexts.
Creative Skills for Learning and Work – Defining Creativity?
We have discussed and mirrored these generalizations with a number of artists, mediators and experts in order to assure they are in line with the general understanding of definitions in this study.
Creative Soft Skills Training Program
The methodology which aims to help artists recognize and improve their Creative Soft Skills
Applying Creative Soft Skills in the workplace and what COVID has taught us
Article by Kulturanova Working on the Creative Soft Skills project is additionally encouraged us to apply these skills even more in our daily work. In the first place, we wanted to define what they mean to us and how they can help in the implementation of our...
Creative soft skills – To be defined or just discovered?
Defining creativity as a skill is like a bar of soap. The moment you think you have a grasp of it, it slips away.
The EU Skills Agenda 2030
The EU Skills Agenda builds on 12 actions to improve the importance of skills in the EU to strengthen sustainable competitiveness, ensure social fairness and build resilience.
How we use creativity to stimulate development
Article by Sineglossa Alessia and Federico met in 2005 in Bologna during a master’s degree in scriptwriting and performing arts. Both of them had already had experiences in the theatre, but Alessia is a sociologist, while Federico is a philosopher: while Alessia tells...