Culture is a driver and enabler of human development with a stress put on its increasing role in producing new creative ideas or technologies. In particular it supports workplace skill development, while the pleasure of arts promotes the acquisition of skills.Culture and art strongly reflect business relations and professional life, being a source of many crucial competences and skills needed in working environment. Art and culture are brilliant educational instrument, enabling to find different perspective of development and giving added value to educational process. Moreover both play strong role in enhancing diversity and social inclusion uniting individuals, opening ones’ horizons and building positive attitudes toward others.This is crucial in development of managers, in particular those experienced, who need to develop competences and skills currently most expected by employers, such as: interpersonal and social competences, creativity, openness, flexibility, problem solving, out-of-the-box thinking, equality-oriented approach, tolerance and respect for differences (building diverse working environment and promoting equal treatment). At the same time absolutely basic and necessary in conditions of complexity of management processes are: sensibility, mindfulness and cognitive processes – both aesthetic and intuitive, ability of acting through experience, analysing, creation and reflection – humanistic approach, which broaden one’s horizon and bring a better balance. All can be reached through art and culture.All this puts an emphasis on the need of new approach in development of managers based on the linkage of art and culture with competence development. Therefore CULTURE PRO project aims to enrich the educational offer by elaboration, tests and dissemination of innovative, comprehensive programme of development the competences of managers through art and culture (incl. use of ICT) within 3 countries by the 30.06.2019. Direct aim reflects further objectives which are:• to develop competences and skills of managers;• to enhance a humanistic approach in management (sensibility, mindfulness and cognitive processes, ability of acting through experience, creation and reflection)• to enhance diversity and equal treatment in a workplace by developing managers’ inclusive approach and open attitudes towards differences;• to raise the awareness of positive influence of art and culture on management manner and work in general.Project is expected to last 34 months, is undertaken by 3 partners from 3 countries: Poland, Austria and Hungary specialized in area of competence development and culture. Projects results with complex learning through art and culture educational programme assisted with supporting tools such as on-line educational tool and publications. The program is based on new approach of learning through art and culture. Training cycle forsees of 2 different types:Workshops basing on learning through art and culture approach, with following topics foreseen: a. Culture and business cooperation b. Theatre workshop c. Art and culture in enhancing diversity in a workplace.d. Meeting with art: painting and postere. Meeting with design f. Photo workshop g. Design thinking 3-day strongly interactive workshops strengthening the capacity of creative acting in work. During these workshops participants are expected to work out, prepare and realize CSR project in area of generally defined art. They are also expected to involve public or private environment.Training will be complemented by: EDU- TOOL. Virtual space providing knowledge and developing skills according to idea of “just-in-time” learning and social learning. It gives free access to all needed learning materials as supportive to main educational process (both before and after classes). PUBLICATIONS aimed to: show experience gained during the project, present project success, disseminate and promote the results, inform how to use educational programme elaborated and tested within a project and what are the advantages, provide practical knowledge on inclusive role of art and culture, on learning through art and culture advantages and to promote positive attitude towards art and culture and its use in managers’ workplace.Publications are complementary to educational programme and edu-tool which used together provide tangible support for institution interested in realizing the programme or implementing it into their offer. Project is directly addressed to managers. Indirectly will influence: companies, in particular HR departments, public and private institutions of culture and promoting culture, public and private educational institutions operating in lifelong learning and new methods if education, NGO’s, business environment institutions, local authorities, institutions of labour market or culture etc. and individual professionals operating on a market, as well as advisory and/or training companies.
Culture is a driver and enabler of human development. It reflects business relations and professional life, being a source of many crucial competences. Art and culture are brilliant educational instrument. Moreover both play strong role in opening ones’ horizons and building positive attitudes toward others. This is crucial in development of managers, who need to develop competences and skills currently most expected by employers, such as: creativity, openness, flexibility, problem solving, out-of-the-box thinking, equality, tolerance and respect. At the same time absolutely basic in conditions of complexity of management processes are: sensibility, mindfulness and cognitive processes, acting through experience, analysing, creation and reflection – humanistic approach, which broaden one’s horizon and bring a better balance. All can be reached through art and culture. CULTURE PRO is aimed to enrich the educational offer by elaboration, tests and dissemination of innovative, comprehensive programme of development the competences of managers through art and culture. Further objectives: • to develop competences and skills of managers; • to enhance a humanistic approach in management (sensibility, mindfulness and cognitive processes, ability of acting through experience, creation and reflection) • to enhance diversity and equal treatment in a workplace; • to raise the awareness of positive influence of art and culture on management. Project lasted 34 months and was undertaken by 3 partners from 3 countries: • Orange Hill form Poland which is the company experienced in lifelong learning, adults’ competence development and supporting companies in human resources management; • KulturAXE from Austria which is cultural association experienced in the fields of fine arts, design, new media, performing arts and architecture they use to foster intercultural communication and exchange. • Delle Association from Hungary that operates as a platform for the production of exhibitions, study, research, focusing on both art and science and supports programs that promote cultural awareness and social change. Partners combined their expertise and experience to elaborate educational programmes developing the most required managerial skills through the arts and culture. We used Design Thinking method to set up the model, emphatise the users, create prototypes and then finally test each workshop programme on the group of experienced managers. At the final stage of the process programmes were redesigned in accordance to their feedback. Parallelly partners (in collaboration with final users) worked on designing online edu-platform. Important part of partnership’s work was elaboration the scenarios and creation the video promoting personal development through the arts and culture and the meaning of art in our lives. Partners closed the project cycle with the publication summarising the achievements of the project and giving the inspiration on arts in the process of acquiring skills in our professional life. Projects resulted with complex learning through art and culture educational programme assisted with supporting tools such as on-line educational, video and publication. The program was based on new approach of learning through art and culture. Training proposal consists of 2 different types: Workshops basing on learning through art and culture approach, with following topics foreseen: a. Art and Revolution (collage / video creation) b. Big Picture (collage / photography) c. Jam (music) d. Mask Play (masks) e. Moving Images of Happiness (painting / visual arts) f. Stage and the Lines (theatre) g. The Word (literature) 2-day strongly interactive workshops of Eat Art - based deeply in local culinary culture and strengthening the capacity of going back to the roots, finding your own pace and developing the sensitivity to beauty and simplicity. Trainings were complemented by: EDU- TOOL. Virtual space providing knowledge and developing skills. VIDEO – “Art and culture in development of human” - interactive film with the possibility to choose the scenario by the user, promoting learning through art and culture advantages and inclusive role of art and culture. PUBLICATION to: show experience gained during the project, project success, to promote positive attitude towards art and culture and its use in managers’ workplace. All materials used together provide tangible support for institution interested in realizing the programme or implementing it into their offer. Project is addressed to managers. It may be used by: companies -HR departments, public and private institutions of culture, public and private educational institutions operating in lifelong learning, NGO’s, business environment institutions, local authorities, institutions of labour market or culture etc. and individual professionals (advisors, experts, trainers) operating on a market, as well as advisory and/or training companies.