In a 2016 report The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the core skills needed for work in 2020, as identified by professionals from leading global companies, were presented and compared to those identified five years ago. Creativity has moved from number 10 (as predicted for 2015) to the third most important skill to have, following complex problem solving and critical thinking. ‘Creativity’ was in the context of this research…

Did you know that the fourth week of May, which this year is 23–29 May 2016, is the International Arts Education Week as designated by UNESCO?

More information also on the previous years can be found on UNESCO's Arts Education page, the dedicated page of the World Alliance for Arts Education or the Virtual Gallery…

The InSEA Regional Conference Vienna 2016

Dates: 22–24 September 2016

Venue: the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Theme: Art and Design Education in Times of Change ("Against the background of current societal challenges the conference is looking for answers in the…

Insights into applied visual arts in community-based and socially engaged art, including in education.

Publication of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland, Finland. Edited by Timo Jokela, Glen Coutts, Maria Huhmarniemi & Elina Härkönen.

The publication is available here.

Publisher's…

Hello all ICEnet Members!

Summer is here, but even more importantly, we have great news and we want to share them with you. After two years of hard work, a group of partner organisations within ICEnet finished their work on a project Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and creative practitioners to work in participatory settings (TRaKSforA). We are therefore very proud to present its main outcome…

Self-Assessment Competency Framework for…

The final meeting of partners and practitioners involved in the project project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (TRaKSforA) took place in the Netherlands on 3–5 June 2015.

First in the series of official activities and events was a roundtable event organised by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in…

On 11 April 2015, Di Fisher-Naylor, Director of Programme Development at Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), led a workshop at Casgliad 2015, the first Youth Arts Network Cymru Conference held in Aberystwyth, Wales. After an introduction into the work, international programmes and values of CCE, she presented the International Creative Education Network (ICEnet), of which CCE is a founding partner. Several of the…

Leonardo partnership project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (TRaKSforA) is a collaboration of partners from seven countries – UK, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Croatia – along with other organisation supporting the project work. The main goal of the partnership was to develop a…

Whether you work with children or adults, community or a group of peers, reflection is always an important part of the success of the whole experience. There are many ways to reflect in the moment, depending on the group, the space and resources, the energy levels, the time available, etc.

Below you will find a few examples of the many reflection exercises used by Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) and its associates. However, there are many more possibilities. Do you know good…

The publication, produced earlier in 2014 by the Open Method of Coordination expert working group of the European Council, looks at the types of successful practices and partnerships between cultural institutions/artists and other sectors, including education, that help transfer creative skills into other sectors. The handbook provides specific structured examples from various European countries, their analysis, models and positive impacts, includes tips on setting up creative partnerships,…

Enabling Crossovers: Good Practices in the Creative Industries in Asia and Europe is a new publication by the Asia-Europe Foundation. It presents 36 good practices within four areas: creative skills, creative entrepreneurs, creative cities: sustainability, and creative cities: quality of life.

In an essay by Ada Wong ‘Creative Skills for a Creative Economy’, she argues that: “Creative skills are not only for creative practitioners. Everyone…

Our series of blog posts presenting recent work of ICEnet partner organisations continues – this time talking about Vitamine C from Flanders, Belgium.

Vitamine C is a bottom-up platform for all, both in policy and in practice, who are passionate about connecting young people with the arts. It is a cross-cutting network that brings together cultural and arts centres, theatre and dance companies, museums, libraries, etc. – in short, people and children…

Leonardo partnership project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (TRaKSforA) is a collaboration of partners from eight countries – UK, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Croatia – along with other organisation supporting the project work. The main goal is to develop a Self-Assessment…

First in a series of blog posts presenting recent work of ICEnet partner organisations – focusing on Association for Creativity in Education ('Společnost pro kreativitu ve vzdělávání') from Czech Republic.

 It Matters to Us

The Czech-and-Slovakian project It Matters to Us (in Czech ‘Týká se nás to!’) focuses on young people…

Hello all ICEnet Members!

Welcome to another ICEnet newsflash. In case your busy lives prevented you from visiting the online platform regularly, do not worry – we will update you on what you might have missed.

What’s happening on the platform?

Several blog posts presented interesting initiatives and practices all around the world – in…

As part of their research into education, The McKinsey Center for Government research youth employability and skills needed. They have published a report Education to Employment: Getting Europe’s Youth into Work, in which they also look at what skills young people lack from the point of view of the employers and what skills they consider important.

As presented in the table below, skills…

A report on how young people are encouraged to study Science in Japan through creative approaches to Science education.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/sep/26/science-teaching-japan-video

Source: Newton/theguardian.com, Length: 27min 24sec

The thesis looks at how social change can be effected through participation in the arts and examines this in the context of Timor-Leste in South East Asia. It includes, among others, case studies of existing initiatives in Timor-Leste, overview of models and approaches (such as social action, arts as therapy, and community cultural development) and a review of the literature on initiatives in which participatory arts are applied as a tool for social change.

The author of the thesis is…

New initiative by the National Arts Council Singapore promotes the use of arts to enhance learning of students with special education needs. It allows teaching artists and school teachers to develop and deliver together arts-based lessons as part of the core curriculum. Next to matching the teaching artists with the school to jointly develop programmes based on the school’s educational needs, teachers are provided artist-led training to make the impact sustainable. The NAC Artist-SPED School…

Artists in Creative Education – Pakistan and UK is an international project by Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), UK; IKON, UK; Vasl Artists Collective, Pakistan; and the British Council Pakistan. The project initially saw 3 UK artists and 3 Pakistani artists on exchange visits, receiving professional development training to enable them to employ their artistic skills effectively in educational settings and being placed in schools in Birmingham and Karachi. As…