About CA4GF
The project idea came from art schools needs to develop their services and increased interest in topics such as ecology and heritageissues amongst their students. During the centuries-old occupations in Latvia and Lithuania, the heritage, which testifies to the long history of Lithuanian and Latvian statehood, was especially actively destroyed and is steadily disappearing.
EntrepreneurshipArt & CultureCultural HeritageDesignSustainabilityCreativityThe goal
The main aim of the project is to develop entrepreneurship competences of art schools’ students‘ in Baltic-Nordic region countries by developing a entrepreneurship curriculum that focuses on cultural creativity and sustainability. The project also aims to facilitate multiple seminars and workshops, hosted in Lithuania, Latvia and Norway, to develop cooperation and support knowledge exchange between project partners. Short-term objectives are:1. To develop cooperation and knowledge exchange between project partners2. To create a new curriculum for cultural entrepreneurship in Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway3. To spread information about projects ‘results to other Nordic region countries4. To ensure the quality of project results
For whom
The project results are meant to be used in art schools to teach students aged 15-19 years about entrepreneurship in arts and cultural sustainability. Other project activities, such as seminars and workshops, are targeted towards teachers within the art, design and cultural fields, for knowledge exchange, inspiration and building cooperation bonds across borders.
Why
Nowadays, art, culture and creativity are defined in the sense that they contribute to the generation and production of knowledge. They are products that are created, need a market, and thrive on clients. Besides, culture and creativity have an aesthetic, social, political, economic and idealistic value. Yet, culture, art and creativity waste away if they do not have a market and if they are not received. To make that reception possible it needs entrepreneurship and an effective cultural and creative business.