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Welcome to the Stardust project. With rapid technological advancements and changes in the global working environment, performing artists can face struggles in making ends meet. The Stardust project acknowledges the challenges faced by performing artists through part-time and short-term contracts and aims to teach performing artists the necessary skills and capabilities in order to help them to fulfil their entrepreneurial potential.
About Us
The Stardust project provides a range of learning materials addressed to performing artists, VET professionals and aids to performing artists, to develop and fulfil their entrepreneurial potential.
The Stardust learning materials empower performing artists to develop their skillset in order to be better prepared against challenges they may face within their chosen career. The Stardust project proposes a modular curriculum to help support performing artists to fulfil their entrepreneurial potential. Tailored specifically to the needs of performing artists in each partner country, the Performing Arts Curriculum will address the particular business opportunities available to those in the industry as well as skill development areas.
Throughout the course of the Stardust project, partners will work with and train VET tutors to develop their own resources which they can use to further encourage performing artists and those in the performing arts sector, to further develop their own business acumen capability. To support VET trainers, Stardust proposes an in-service training programme with the focus on supporting VET trainers to deliver the new curriculum to those within the performing arts sector.
To encourage performing artists to see themselves with entrepreneurial potential, the Stardust project provides a range of case studies from successful performing arts entrepreneurs to help others interested in developing their own skill set. All of this learning content is to be presented through the Stardust MOOC (Massive Open Online Courseware). This is an online platform, where VET tutors, performing artists or those within the performing arts sector can access all of the learning materials developed in the Stardust project.
To ensure the Stardust projects addresses the needs and requirements of participants, Public Animation Workshops will take place in Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Serbia in May 2022. A final conference will be held in Spain in August 2022 to present testimonials from those who participated in the training as well as the content created in the Stardust project.
Outputs
The Stardust project – Performing Arts Entrepreneurs addresses the challenges faced by those in the performing arts sector to build a sustainable career and fulfil their entrepreneurial potential. To achieve these objectives, the Stardust partners are collaborating together throughout the term of the project to produce the following innovative learning materials:
IO1: Performing Arts Curriculum
The Stardust project proposes a modular curriculum to help support performing artists to fulfil their entrepreneurial potential. Based on the EntreComp framework and tailored specifically to the needs of performing artists, including actors, dancers and musicians in each partner country, the Performing Arts Curriculum will address the particular business opportunities available to those in the industry as well as skill development areas.
IO2: In-service Training for VET Professionals
The in-service training programme can be used by vocational educators to support their own professional development. Vocational educators will be empowered to develop their own range of educational resources in an online environment.
IO3: MOOC
To provide access to the range of educational resources from the Stardust, partners propose a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Due to the online nature of the resource, participants can access the materials on their smartphones, mobile device or computers.
IO4: Performing Artist Business Case Studies
To encourage performing artists to see themselves with entrepreneurial potential, the Stardust project provides a range of case studies from successful performing arts entrepreneurs to help others interested in developing their own skill set. 7 case studies will be developed on each for each of the following roles within the performing arts sector: actor, dancer and musician.
Our Partners!
Stardust has been funded with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme. The Stardust project commenced in September 2020 and will run until August 2022. Stardust is currently being delivered by a team of seven organisations from Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Serbia.
INICIATIVAS DE FUTURO PARA UNA EUROPA SOCIAL COOP V– Coordinator.
Spain
IFESCOOP is a non-profit cooperative which cooperates with the regional and local Public Administrations, Social Partners as well as many other institutions and organisations in the fields of Youth, Adult and Vocational Education and Training. As a training provider, IFESCOOP offers tailor-made training programmes for developing and upgrading skills and professional qualifications of young people, workers, and unemployed people, thus improving their employment opportunities, and supporting their personal and professional development. IFESCOOP provides youth focussed and vocational training for different target groups, where the priority is given to specific disadvantaged groups such as young, migrants, women, etc. For more information, please visit: www.ifescoop.eu
ALIANCE LEKTORU a KONZULTANTU
Czech Republic
ALK was established in 2005 in the Czech Republic as a network of professionals working in the fields of education and counselling. ALK organises a wide range of training courses, educational programs, thematic workshops that help educational professionals to acquire a new qualification, competencies and special practical skills. The mission of ALK is to support new methods and forms of education, support trainers and other professionals working in education. ALK regularly participates in national and international projects focused on lifelong learning, innovative educational methods, e-learning, distance education, special methods for counselling, integration programs, etc. Organisational website is www.trainers-alliance.eu .
Hauptstadftallee 239 V V UG (Skills Elevation FHB)
Germany
Skills Elevation FHB, Germany, was established in 2019 by a range of educators, environmentalists and academics, with the aim of providing alternative educational methodologies. FHB work extensively to provide support and education for marginalised groups, especially with regards to their social, emotional and cognitive developments. FHB have three main areas of focus; the development of new pedagogic approaches, the development of training materials for marginalised adults and conducting research into social psychology, business and education.
Mindshift Talent Advisory lda
Portugal
Mindshift Talent Advisory is a start-up HR Consultancy established in 2017 in Lisbon, with a strong focus on ICT-based solutions, VET and AE. Mindshift’s expertise lies in leveraging the long experience of the team in training and coaching, digital marketing, as well as in recruiting, psychometric assessment and data analysis. In addition, the company is responsible for design tailored skills development programmes to implement in-service, based on clients’ needs, for a range of sectors, such as retail, professional services, industry, commerce, banking & insurance, IT, pharmaceutics, telecommunication, fast-moving consumer goods.
FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED
Ireland
Future in Perspective Ltd. Ireland specialises in the areas of education and e-learning, media production, strategic planning and business development and evaluation. Through national and EU funded projects, local youth groups, micro-enterprises, owner-managers, employment support workers and local employer have been engaged and supported through our VET programme. FIP have expertise in supporting businesses in niche markets such as the creative, cultural and green sectors to develop sustainable business models. FIP specialise in the areas of branding and digital media.
SPEHA FRESIA SC
Italy
Speha Fresia is a non-profit cooperative established in 1983 and operates at national level in the fields of lifelong learning, labour active policies, local sustainable development, and social research. By integrating its professional competences with a wide network of public and private institutions, Speha Fresia has been cooperating in European projects since 1996. Its expert research areas are targeted towards sustaining knowledge-based innovative devices and valorising best practices in the fields of the social economy, of local development (smart, sustainable, and inclusive), of training, and lifelong learning policies.
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UDRUJENIJE GRAGDANA DAH TEATAR - CENTAR ZAPOZORISHNA ISTRAJIVANJA
Serbia
“In the contemporary world, destruction and violence can only be opposed by the creation of sense”- is the founding and continuing motto of DAH Theatre. The goal of Dah Theatre Research Centre is a constant exchange of knowledge, experience and programs among artists and theatre professionals from different theatrical and national traditions. The artistic education of young people is another important goal, reflected in the ongoing programs of theatre and dance training, and many workshops by visiting artists and pedagogues.
INICIATIVAS DE FUTURO PARA UNA EUROPA SOCIAL COOP V– Coordinator.
Spain
IFESCOOP is a non-profit cooperative which cooperates with the regional and local Public Administrations, Social Partners as well as many other institutions and organisations in the fields of Youth, Adult and Vocational Education and Training. As a training provider, IFESCOOP offers tailor-made training programmes for developing and upgrading skills and professional qualifications of young people, workers, and unemployed people, thus improving their employment opportunities, and supporting their personal and professional development. IFESCOOP provides youth focussed and vocational training for different target groups, where the priority is given to specific disadvantaged groups such as young, migrants, women, etc. For more information, please visit: www.ifescoop.eu
ALIANCE LEKTORU a KONZULTANTU
Czech Republic
ALK was established in 2005 in the Czech Republic as a network of professionals working in the fields of education and counselling. ALK organises a wide range of training courses, educational programs, thematic workshops that help educational professionals to acquire a new qualification, competencies and special practical skills. The mission of ALK is to support new methods and forms of education, support trainers and other professionals working in education. ALK regularly participates in national and international projects focused on lifelong learning, innovative educational methods, e-learning, distance education, special methods for counselling, integration programs, etc. Organisational website is www.trainers-alliance.eu .
Hauptstadftallee 239 V V UG (Skills Elevation FHB)
Germany
Skills Elevation FHB, Germany, was established in 2019 by a range of educators, environmentalists and academics, with the aim of providing alternative educational methodologies. FHB work extensively to provide support and education for marginalised groups, especially with regards to their social, emotional and cognitive developments. FHB have three main areas of focus; the development of new pedagogic approaches, the development of training materials for marginalised adults and conducting research into social psychology, business and education.
Mindshift Talent Advisory lda
Portugal
Mindshift Talent Advisory is a start-up HR Consultancy established in 2017 in Lisbon, with a strong focus on ICT-based solutions, VET and AE. Mindshift’s expertise lies in leveraging the long experience of the team in training and coaching, digital marketing, as well as in recruiting, psychometric assessment and data analysis. In addition, the company is responsible for design tailored skills development programmes to implement in-service, based on clients’ needs, for a range of sectors, such as retail, professional services, industry, commerce, banking & insurance, IT, pharmaceutics, telecommunication, fast-moving consumer goods.
Mindshift Talent Advisory
Avenida da Républica nº 45 8 Esq
1050-187, Lisboa, Portugal
FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED
Ireland
Future in Perspective Ltd. Ireland specialises in the areas of education and e-learning, media production, strategic planning and business development and evaluation. Through national and EU funded projects, local youth groups, micro-enterprises, owner-managers, employment support workers and local employer have been engaged and supported through our VET programme. FIP have expertise in supporting businesses in niche markets such as the creative, cultural and green sectors to develop sustainable business models. FIP specialise in the areas of branding and digital media.
SPEHA FRESIA SC
Italy
Speha Fresia is a non-profit cooperative established in 1983 and operates at national level in the fields of lifelong learning, labour active policies, local sustainable development, and social research. By integrating its professional competences with a wide network of public and private institutions, Speha Fresia has been cooperating in European projects since 1996. Its expert research areas are targeted towards sustaining knowledge-based innovative devices and valorising best practices in the fields of the social economy, of local development (smart, sustainable, and inclusive), of training, and lifelong learning policies.
For more information, please visit:
UDRUJENIJE GRAGDANA DAH TEATAR - CENTAR ZAPOZORISHNA ISTRAJIVANJA
Serbia
“In the contemporary world, destruction and violence can only be opposed by the creation of sense”- is the founding and continuing motto of DAH Theatre. The goal of Dah Theatre Research Centre is a constant exchange of knowledge, experience and programs among artists and theatre professionals from different theatrical and national traditions. The artistic education of young people is another important goal, reflected in the ongoing programs of theatre and dance training, and many workshops by visiting artists and pedagogues.
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