3K*3M Partner from: School / university / teacher training / museum / music school / adult education work together. The common goal is the review of already existing and the creation and presentation of new creative approaches to digitization, including previous project results. Due to the forced lockdown during the corona phase, both educational and cultural institutions have been forced to find new ways of presentation, mediation and communication. When personal encounters - whether temporary or long-term - become restricted or impossible, it is important that pupils, students, museum and concert visitors, artists and the interested public remain in contact without breaking off the dialogue. This challenge is linked to technical possibilities and the ability to handle the corresponding software, but also to the digitization and preparation of content that can be worked on and discussed online. Neither of these is a matter of course. In many places, technical equipment has been upgraded, but the people who will use it in the future are not always up to the newly created possibilities. At the same time, it is important to prepare content in such a way that personal encounters, individual contact and feedback, and lively exchanges can be transferred to the virtual space. This also requires preparation, competence and the willingness to take such digital paths in the first place. Creating such modules is our goal. A presentation of already existing examples and the joint creation of new digital tools is the focus of the project work. Contents cannot be transferred 1:1, which is why the exchange between experienced partners is important. It is also intended that the project work will simultaneously result in a further training course, but this is not the first priority. If we want to remain in contact with the various target groups, if learning, study, training and teaching processes are not to be abruptly terminated, then we must be prepared to be digitally prepared enough to be able to digitally convey individual modules, presentations and possibly even entire seminars and teaching units. If culture is not to fall into a deep slumber, then art, music and literature (theater) must find ways of digital presentation and presence. Individual digital passages can be incorporated into analog processes - for example, when it comes to vocal passages or dialogues. Here, various stages and concert halls have developed excellent examples in recent months. The project team is broadly based with experts from the fields of education and culture in order to respond appropriately to the challenge. We work together in a partner group that has a good foundation in blended learning, modularization and digitalization. Our aim is to create common digital formats that can be used in the different institutions - and beyond. The Kadriorg Museum in Tallinn not only wants to present objects and provide information about them, but here the virtual museum visit should also be a "visual experience". The Music and Art School in Liepaja will not only present individual concert pieces, but also create first steps for music workshops online. The methodological-didactic center in Bratislava has already developed digital formats in the summer of 2020 to continue teacher training online and to offer teachers support for their own online lessons. The Westfälisches Forum works closely with the Westfalen-Kolleg Paderborn, which has been offering the "Abitur Online" course for over 15 years. Here 50% of the lessons are digital. The platform work is constantly maintained and expanded, so that a good pool for development and adaptation can be used. The Foreign Language Institute of the University of Kaunas supports the group by using different language modules and the participating schools in Ghent, Gothenburg, Liepaja and Paderborn test and try out the different new modules,. The University of Liepaja participates indirectly, as the Department of Pedagogy cooperates with School No. 7 and the Art and Music School. Teachers work as lecturers at the university. Our co-opted partner in Moscow, the State Linguistic University with a propaedeutic program, will also develop and translate modules. This makes sense and is helpful because Liepaja and Tallinn have a relatively large Russian population, and students with a migration background also study at the Westfalen-Kolleg. With the developed, documented and commented materials, a further education course is to be designed. Presentations of the results will take place in May 2022 /2023.
It was important for everyone to bring as many different institutions as possible into an exchange with each other (systemic positions), because everyone wanted to work in a way that was appropriate for the target group and create modules that appealed to their own learners, visitors or the audience. This should be done in an interdisciplinary way, because viewing habits that someone acquires as a pupil are also fundamental for his or her studies or a visit to a museum. Therefore, institutions - educational or art venues - should match how they can engage, motivate and empower their users to learn new things. An exchange within the project group was planned about the skills and abilities required to reach the addressees in a "different way" in a special situation. Already in the application phase, the infection figures in Europe were increasing rapidly again. At that time (autumn 2020), no one knew how long presence phases in schools, universities, museums, theatres and concert halls would be possible at all, so it was important to develop possibilities that could offer a rudimentary substitute. This change from presence <=> distance was to be bridged by digital offers.
In our project, the focus was on "DIGITALISATION", At the time of the application, there were indeed digital formats (education / culture) that were largely aimed at the "own addressees" (learners, audience, visitors) (Corona), therefore teamwork of institutions seemed interesting in order to establish and expand offers during the lockdown (crossover). Our plan was to present innovative examples of digitalisation with a focus on MUSIC, ART and LITERATURE. In addition to these three thematic fields, it was important for us to show that participation is possible even in a situation where people cannot meet at concerts or exhibitions, and finally, methodological and didactic possibilities were to be worked out on how content and forms of mediation can be digitalised in order to reach the addressees. Here, both existing modules of our partners were used (best practice) and joint proposals were newly developed to show how our knowledge and work goals can be bundled to achieve good products that other institutions / lecturers / museums can also use. In addition, it was also a matter of surveying learning progress