Rinova launches Partnerships for Creative Apprenticeships (P4CA)
Rinova has launched a new Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership - PC4A
- to promote quality and effective apprenticeships in the Creative
and Cultural Industries (CCIs).
P4CA brings togetheran experienced partnership comprising Rinova
Ltd (lead); Arteria, Poland; Regional Development Agency Senek
Pezinok (Slovakia); Cultural Industry Creative Cluster
Pecs (Hungary); Materahub (Italy); and Press to
Exit (North Macedonia).
New creative technology and working patterns make the CCIs
attractive to young people. However, there are significant,
persistent barriers. Entry routes are often through personal
networks or unpaid internships which tend to exclude young people
from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds. The CCIs also comprise
an exceptionally large proportion of small and micro-businesses (up
to 95% in some countries). Such businesses lack capacity or
resources to take on apprenticeships, whilst training institutions
often do not understand the career opportunities offered by this
new and dynamic sector.
Can new solutions be found to these intractable challenges? At a
time when the UK is withdrawing from the EU, P4CA will continue to
look outwards to draw upon innovative models of apprenticeships in
different European countries. Rinova has long
recognised that creative and personal development can provide
young people with a rewarding pathway out of disadvantage. The CCIs
have now been identified by the European parliament as playing a
key role as a driver for growth, contributing more than any other
sector to youth employment and have proved to be most resilient
during the post 2008 economic crisis.
PC4A will build upon a previous cross-sectoral project, European Partnership for Apprenticeships (EP4A)
which aimed to promote apprenticeships to SMEs, and apply what was
learnt in EP4A specifically to the creative and cultural
industries. The project aligns with Rinova's ongoing work in the
CCI sector with partners at a European level, which includes
projects supporting professional development around work-based
learning (see Learn 2 Create) and around young people's
transferable skills (see Creative Soft Skills).
Below: The PC4A partners at the kick off meeting in
London held on the 26 and 27th November 2019.
It will also provide professional development resources for
apprenticeship coaches and in-company trainers in the sector
aligned with the European Framework for Quality and Effective
Apprenticeships. P4CA will also utlise the Collective Learning Open
Curriculum Kit ('Clock Your Skills') a ground-breaking
transnational European approach to the accreditation of competences
acquired at work. This framework arose from over 10 years research
and development in the area of informal and non-formal learning
involving Rinova, Collage Arts and our many European partners, and
is supported by a European network of peer-to-peer mentors and
sector experts.
If you would like to find out more ahout PC4A contact Trevor
Burgess at t.burgess@rinova.co.uk . The project has also
launched a website, where you can keep track of developments here.
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