CYANOTYPES is a community of change, a pan-European project which addresses the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) sector’s needs and skills gaps. Anticipating creative futures. Challenging existing frameworks, we ask what innovative, multidisciplinary structures, strategic interventions and concrete skills development solutions can be adopted across the European CCI ecosystem?
The project, coordinated by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, is part of the Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills under the Erasmus+ Programme, and consists of 20 partners including higher education institutions, European networks, industry sector partners, regional partners and quality assurance partners.
These stakeholders, from all corners of the CCI sector and beyond, call for radical change. A shift that recognises the sector’s potential for innovation, competitiveness and resilience, that reacts to and rebounds from current challenges such as pandemics, digital transition, conflict, and the climate crisis.
CYANOTYPES adopts anticipatory strategies to develop and test a methodological framework that will empower creators to imagine multiple futures, making processes they are involved in today more sustainable, more resilient, and more dynamic. Organised by a triple loop learning framework, this will include changes in how we “learn how to learn”. Through the integration of specific and transversal skillsets, CYANOTYPES will provide context-specific points of entry and respond to disruptive elements into the sector with upskilling and reskilling processes for different stakeholder groups leading to change and innovation in CCI education and training.
In an interview on the rationale behind the project, coordinator David Crombie elaborates: “Cyanotypes will produce a Blueprint, a template for different industrial sectors that looks at the skills and competences to produce innovation within the sector. Along with the Pact for Skills, which is essentially a model of cooperation that brings together the CCI under one umbrella, is one of the pillars for boosting innovation within the sector.”
For more information, contact:
Project coordinator: David Crombie – david.crombie@hku.nl
Project manager: Caroline van Leuven – caroline.vanleuven@hku.nl
