The GLOBAL OBJECTIVE was to reconcile educational curricula/non-formal training and market demands for a competitive cultural sector. Thus, 4 sub-objectives were set: Under SO1: to identify experienced-based products and services, and help connect new skills and new jobs better matching job seekers' and labor markets' needs in the cultural sector. Under SO2: to tackle the fossilization of professions in the heritage sector with multiple pedagogies and comprehensive training schemes and tools, providing evidence of interdisciplinary achievements, improving standards for cultural production, and exploiting technologies that facilitate the inclusion of higher-skilled workers in the heritage sector. Under SO3: to improve sector alignment and employability at scale - such as portfolios of demonstrable evidence of applied and social skills, micro-credentials, and methods of accreditation encouraging constructive, creative, and passionate self-expression within any community of practice. Under SO4: to train HED students towards the creation of new products that bring the work to follow the development and meet market demands (this was the main educational task).
Pact4Skills investigated digital, entrepreneurial and other needs for skills in the heritage sphere to assist actors respond to demand/labor-market needs and identify a new generation of culture-driven products. By researching the needs of cultural agencies to develop domain-specific innovation liaising results with the workforce, Pact4Skills identified experienced-based products and services, thus helpint connect new skills and new jobs better matching job seekers' and labor markets' needs in the cultural sector. The Partnership promoted the quality of digital narratives, improved standards in design and production of digital artworks and encourage the inclusion of cultural education in the leisure time of different audiences, thus gaining a new market to accommodate better paid jobs. Pact4Skills involved over 400 HED students into a cognitive-inquiry learning utilizing pervasive media/digital literacies hand-in-hand with rich contents and critical thinking. Having investigated the production mechanisms in digital culture, the Partnership formulated remedies for the quality of contents and defined new paradigms of research and representation, to employ and replicate a market- shared reference code to meaning-making.