Creative Industries Capacity Building Program

Based on our internal research, reached findings showed that unemployed young people in Cultural and Creative (CCI) sectors face problems on management issues, english skills, financial stability, accounting, business growth, client base extension, entering international markets, lack of financial resources, lack of respect, lack of personnel, job structure, expense, economic and social context, preparation, heavy workload, life&work balance, stress. Results show that; * 69 percent of participants reported that they had no administrative experience. * Only 23% believe that their creative actions are worthy. * 75% want to conduct their work on a global scale. * 58 percent of experts believe that having personal advice on their own situations will be helpful to their market practice. * 44% would prefer an intense course, mastered in an innovative field, and accessibility to counseling. Starting from these, our project's goal is to improve the technical expertise of youth staff and specialists in CCI area, so that they can respond to the requirements of the youth in this field and improving the standard of youth work in this field.

Our targeted objectives for our priority aim are as follows: - To guarantee youth workers' career growth in the areas of entrepreneurship, enterprise advancement, team cohesion and management, globalization, access to opportunities, time management, and guidance in order to address the demands of young people in creative industries. - To insure that young people in the cultural and artistic sectors build the necessary qualifications through the involvement of youth workers and professionals. - Increased partners' experience in project management, international cooperation, Erasmus +. - Encouraged non-formal and informal training mobility and effective involvement among young people collaboration, efficiency, inclusion, creativity, and innovation at the level of youth organizations and policies. - Erasmus+ Open Access requirement for training content - Digital Transformation (the online training program it will create and the implementation of this program)

To reach objectives, we implemented the following activities: 1) Production of the project outputs: Within the scope of our project, the consortium created 2 different outputs. These are; O1: Creative Industries Capacity Building Program and O2: Online Training Platform 2) "Creative Industries Capacity Building Program Training Module" Implementations: Online training program (12-hour) and 8-Day Mobility Program was carried out with the participation of 33 participants. 3)Regional Policy Change Interaction and Dissemination Workshops held in Nice, Brussels, İzmir, Brasov, Sofia and Denizli were held with the participation of stakeholders In addition to these activities: - Regular project management and coordination efforts, - Online dissemination and visibility efforts of the project and its outputs have been carried out.

The project has two different concrete outputs: - Creative Industry Capacity Building Program in French and English, which is easily accessible, free and usable - Online Training Platform for those interested the topic can benefit from produced outputs online Besides these, the reached results of the project address the requirements of CCI workers included in the cultural and creative sectors, enabled them to be equipped with sectoral development in the areas of entrepreneurship, business growth, team cohesion and managerial capacity, globalization, having access to resources, time management, and guidance. In addition to abovementioned results, we reached; - 157 participants were reached in workshops - Total 46 different organizations were represented within the workshops. - Total 58 people apart from the training participants completed the online trainings and got their certificates. - Total individual website visitor is 938 - Estimated total number of reached organizations is 214, total number of reached individuals around 8000.