Empowering Culture through Business: Introducing Business Academies for Culture and Creative Young Professionals in rural and remote areas

In Europe, the cultural and creative sectors are characterised by self-employment, small and micro-enterprises whose value creation is mainly based on intangible assets, such as original ideas, know-how and creativity, and cultural and linguistic diversity. At the same time, the mobility of artists and artistic and creative professionals, the circulation and translation of European content, training and talent development, fair pay and working conditions, access to finance and cross-border cooperation are issues of specific interest for research and exchange at the European level. Therefore, the initial purpose of this project was for CCYPs to gain valuable and critical assistance to meet these challenges, particularly those living in rural areas, in acquiring and developing key competencies to foster their employability and socio-educational skills.

The project’s main objective was to improve the employability skills and work opportunities for Culture and Creative Young Professionals (CCYPs) living in rural areas by reducing the gap between the educational world and the labour market. With this improvement, CCYPs can increase access to national and EU funding programmes, enabling them to start their enterprise or share their artistic know-how in projects to foster arts and culture in education.