Podcast Empléate en Cultura

The PEC Project (Podcast Employ yourself in Culture) is a cooperation association for youth, led by the Integra Cultural Association (INTEGRA) and with partners from Greece (MOSAIC POLITISMOS & DIMIOURGIKOTITA (MOSAIC), ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ECONOMY GROUP (EKO ), Italy (STEPP STRATEGIE SERVIZI SVILUPPO SRLS (STEPP), Associazione Italy Meet Indonesia (IMI), Associazione Arte Cultura e Sanità ETS (ARCUSAN) and Croatia (Culture Hub Croatia (CHC). This project was born from real needs that each country of the participating partners has in common and which can be summarised in three main ones: -Need 1: Combat the high rate of youth unemployment in the project countries (https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/488897/tasa-de-paro-juvenil-en-los-paises-de-la-ue/); -Need 2: Promote entrepreneurship, as none of the countries are among the first 30 most favorable countries to entrepreneurship (https://thegedi.org/global-entrepreneurship-and-development-index/); -Need 3: Support the cultural sector in a very difficult time due to the restrictions generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through this project, the partners aimed to create innovative contents that promotes employability and entrepreneurship of young people in the cultural sector. Specifically, the project aimed to achieve n.3 specific objectives: Objective 1: Promotion of the employability of young people in the cultural sector; Objective 2: Promotion of youth entrepreneurship in the cultural sector; Objective 3: Dissemination of European cultural heritage among young people in the participating countries. Thus, the project aimed to promote knowledge among young people about employment opportunities and entrepreneurship in the cultural sector, through interviews in video format that have been made available to the public through the project website and profiles on social networks. In addition, the project aimed to give a boost to the cultural sector, greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting its appeal to young people, not only as something worthy of admiration and respect, but also as a source of opportunity to be used and disseminated.

These are the main macro areas of activies we implemented: 1. Project Management Activities – to better assure the achievement of project objectives, results and partnership collaboration; 2. Project Results Development Activities – to achieve the project objectives; 3. Project Dissemination and Communication Activities – to disseminate about the project, its results, the partnership and create impact Our achive activities: • N. 1 Kick off meeting online • N. 3 Transnational Project Meetings (Italy, Spain and Croatia) • N. 3 Online Project Meetings • N. 1 Learning and Teaching Activity (Spain) • Project Website • Youtube Channel + Facebook and IG Pages • Google Drive and Whatsapp group between the partners • PR1: Videos on employment and entrepreneurship in culture; Leading Partner: STEPP; Description: Videos of professionals that serve as an example to follow and a source of inspiration. 2 videos per partner in their country language + English subtitles; • PR2: Podcast on employment and entrepreneurship in culture; Leading Partner: MOSAIC; Description:8 episodes (1 Greek, 1 Croatian, 1 Italian, 1 Spanish + 4 in English) each partner will talk about its own cultural heritage and the employability and entrepreneurship opportunities it offers, while the English episodes will talk about the cultural heritage of the four partner countries and the opportunities that exist for employability and entrepreneurship. • Dissemination: more than 3000 youth and youth workers reached by different project social media, podcast , video. Dissemination Specific indicators: 1 Dissemination & Exploitation Plan 1 Official Website 1 Project Logo Design (& Visual Identity) 4 Social Media platforms ( Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and Spotify) e-Newsletters

Considering the 3 main macro areas of activities we implemented, these are the concrete outputs and results we achieved with our project: 1. Project Management Activities Results: - Project Timeline and Workplan; - Project Financial spreadsheet; - Timesheets; - Google Drive Folder; - WhatsApp group for internal communication; - Kick-off meeting online (March 2022); - N. 3 ETO (1 intermediate meeting in Italy (June 2022), 1 intermediate meeting in Spain (February 2023), 1 final meeting Croatia (November 2023); 2. Project Results Development Activities Result: - N. 14 Video Interviews (PR1) in Italian, Greek, Spanish, Croatian and English subtitles. Available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCexxDFVuU57H6C5VUlgzSig - N. 10 Podcast Episodes (PR2) in Italian, Greek, Spanish, Croatian and English. Available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EBAqNlBIrnQpALpm0MwUN?si=82e0c9bedf48449d&nd=1&dlsi=b3698940c2d9470f Through these videos and podcast episodes, it is intended that young people discover the employment opportunities offered by the sector directly, first-hand, through professionals who are already in this field, who narrated how they managed to dedicate themselves to culture and what tools or job search platforms exist in the sector, as well as the possibilities of entrepreneurship, which are highly relevant in the artistic sector. This way, it is expected that young people who listen to the podcast program or watch the videos, increase their skills and abilities when looking for a job within the sector. - N.1 Learning,Teaching and Training Activity (19-23 Sept. 2023 La Coruña, Spain) with youth workers who participated to discover new ways of transmitting knowledge on entrepreneurship in the cultural sector to young people, to help their employability. Number of participants: 24 ( 21 youth working and 3 accompagning person). 3. Project Dissemination and Communication Activities Results: - Dissemination Plan Document available on Google Drive - Project Identity (logo, letterhead, power point presentation) available on Google Drive - Project Official website (https://www.pecproject.eu/) - Project Official social media pages (Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Spotify) - N.4 Multiplier Events (1 Italy, 1 Croatia, 1 Spain, 1 Greece): 120 presential participants and an online dissemination.