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CHANGING ROOM - A MOBILITY PILOT FOR CULTURAL OPERATORS
CHANGING ROOM is a two-year pilot project by Trans Europe Halles looking for new ways of stimulating cross-border mobility of cultural operators. 25 TEH members in 15 countries are partners in the project.
The project includes:
*A Staff Exchange Programme
*Training workshops
*The CHANGING ROOM Toolkit
*An Academic Study
The Staff Exchange Programme
By testing a staff exchange and training programme involving 25 member centers in 15 countries Trans Europe Halles will identify today’s barriers and opportunities for the circulation of cultural operators. In August 2010 there will be a Summer Academy where all participants from the Staff Exchange programme will meet and evaluate their experiences. Read more about the programme and reports from exchanges that have taken place here.
Training workshops
Several regional and international workshops open to participants outside of TEH are being organised within CHANGING ROOM. Please see the list to the right for dates and locations. In April a Cultural Leaders Retreat will take place in Sicily. Participants are mainly Managing Directors at TEH centres, that share experiences and get training in leadership.
CHANGING ROOM TOOLKIT - click here
The Toolkit is an online platform that offers free tools for knowledge sharing and networking between cultural operators. It includes a wiki-style Knowledge Base, the MatchMaker, which is a Facebook application especially developed for networking between TEH individuals and organisations and a direct jobs listing from Culture Jobs International.
During 2010 the beta release of the MatchMaker is being tested by Trans Europe Halles. In
the future other cultural organisations and networks can get their own
version of the MatchMaker. In the meanwhile, everyone is welcome to use
the other parts of the Toolkit.
Please get in touch through this contact form for more information about how your organisation can get their own MatchMaker.
The Toolkit was released on February 17th 2010.
The Study
The Sibelius Academy is carrying out a first-of-its-kind study on mobility for cultural operators. Focus group interviews have been made during TEH Meeting 67 and 68 and in the spring 2010 an online survey will be sent to all TEH Members and Friends. Together with all the other experiences from the project this will give a topical insight on mobility of independent cultural operators today and how best to raise its value. The Study will be published in the winter 2010. To take part of some first observations, please click here.
Furthermore, the CHANGING ROOM experiences are used to influence the next EU Culture Programme (2014-2020). Together with three other mobility pilots CHANGING ROOM has written a policy recommendation paper that was sent to the European Commission in March 2010.
Organisation/Project Management
CHANGING ROOM is one of four projects that were awarded support by the new European Commission funding line for networks supporting mobility. The project is co-organised by The Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland, the largest music university in Scandinavia and Melkweg, an internationally renown multidisciplinary arts venue in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 25 TEH members in 15 countries are partners in the project.
For more information you are very welcome to contact the project team through our Contact point.
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WRITERS WANTED for the Changing Room Toolkit!
Do you like to write? Do you like to travel? Have you ever worked or studied in another country?
If your answers are yes to any of these questions the CHANGING ROOM TOOLKIT would like to hear from you. If you are
interested in being part of the Toolkit or want to find out more, click here.
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3 other Mobility Pilots
Four projects were selected under the EC call for proposals for
”Networking of existing structures supporting mobility in the cultural
sectors”. The three other projects are:
E-Mobility by Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes
PRACTICS. See Mobile See Practical – coordinated by the Finnish Theatre Information Centre
S.P.A.C.E. – Supporting Performing Art Circulation in Europe by ONDA – Office National de Diffusion Artistique
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Ongoing activities:
Staff Exchanges - more info
here
Beta release of the TOOLKIT
Upcoming activities 2010:
July
Conclusion of all 25 Staff Exchanges
August
3-day regional workshop at Polymer Tallinn:
Main Topic - How to plan/receive artists from overseas in your centre. August 6-8th.
Summer Academy in the Netherlands for 25 exchange participants and/or hosts. August 29-September 3rd.
September
One day training workshops (4 to 6) at Moritzbastei TEH meeting 70, September 9th-12th
October
3-day workshop in Stockholm. Main Topic: Film & Media. Read more here.
November
Publishing
of the Study
Past CHANGING ROOM activities:
June
3-day international workshop Paris - Main Topic: Sustainability for cultural centres, June 17th-19th
TEH
Meeting 69 at A38, Budapest, Hungary; Voices from the project. Toolkit
workshop.
Presentation of the four pilot projects to decision makers etc in
Brussels, May 20th.
Cultural Leaders Retreat in Sicily, April 24th to May 1st 2010
The project team sent its policy recommendations to the EC, March 2010
Launch of the on-line Toolkit, February 17th 2010
January 2010, Paris - meeting of the 4 EC mobiity pilots to discuss policy reccommendations
December 12th 2009 presentation of CHANGING ROOM at PEARLE conference, Stockholm, Sweden
October 16th 2009 CHANGING ROOM TRAINING DAY, at Laznia Nowa, Cracow, Poland.
Presentation of CHANGING ROOM and the three other EC grant awarded pilot projects at IETM meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia April 23rd-26th 2009.
Presentation of CHANGING ROOM at the Swedish Arts Council and Intercult training days May 14-15th 2009.
Launch of CHANGING ROOM at TEH Meeting 67 at Stanica, Zilina, Slovakia, May 7th-10th 2009
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