Bridge between Culture Centres Job-exchange programme

BMF

10/12/2015

Deadline for application: 31st December 2015

Are you curious how your colleagues in other cultural centres in Europe deal with audience development? Participative artistic practices? Local Politics? Remote & rural areas? Super diverse target groups? Do you feel like sharing your own knowledge and experience with cultural workers in other parts of Europe? Are you looking for specific know how to tackle current challenges?

The ENCC Job-exchange programme can help you. A job-exchange gives you a condensed and inspiring practical experience in an unknown yet familiar environment (cultural centre). No need to invent the wheel, if your professional equal is tackling the same issue on the other side of Europe.

Join other BECC participants and reach for an exciting professional challenge!

Deadline for submitting application: 31st December 2015
Selection results: 1st February 2016
BECC Seminar: 17-18 March 2016, place TBC
Period for realization of an exchange: between 1st March and 30th August

BECC- Bridge between Culture Centres

BECC is a Europe-wide staff exchange programme. It aims at enabling locally based cultural workers from cultural centres to go abroad for a learning experience with a cultural centre in another country: to tackle current concerns & issues, to exchange good practices, acquire new skills and knowledge and to build long-term partnerships.

Aims:

To stimulate innovation and experiment in contemporary work at cultural centres, dealing with current concerns & issues, identified by the cultural centre.
For example: new models for participation based artistic & cultural activities, social innovation, ecology and cultural centres, working in remote areas, mixing contemporary culture & tradition, support for grassroots-activities, dealing with local politics, tackling diversity, raising cultural competences of local communities,...
To promote international mobility for local staff members.
To enhance sensibility and awareness for different cultures and working methods.
To exchange new knowledge and different experiences at international level about current needs.
To reflect one's own work, methods, projects, as result of the possibility to compare it.
To introduce new ideas, knowledge and collaboration beyond national borders into the daily work upon return.
To support a lasting partnership and cooperation between local cultural centres from different countries.
To facilitate international solidarity in the field of using arts & culture as a tool for empowerment.

Key information:
The regular stay covers a period of minimum 10 days, no maximum indicated. The programme for the learning experience is developed in cooperation between the sending, the hosting organisation and the staff member actually doing the exchange.
The programme is focused on a clear needs assessment and gives the opportunity to learn about the chosen subject in action: visits to organisations, meeting stakeholders, taking part in local activities, meeting participants, taking part in evaluations, sharing of past experiments.
The hosting organisation facilitates the learning process by taking care of the language challenge, by providing a local coach, by organising the programme and by providing a qualitative learning experience.

The sending organisation facilitates the learning process by organising a good needs assessment, quality cooperation with the hosting organisation and by well preparing the participant.
Sending means also hosting, the reciprocity is essential but not necessary for the same aims. The organisation that has hosted, can send another kind of staff member for another kind of learning process.

If you don't have a partnership organization, call the ENCC office for assistance.

Participation conditions for the staff members, participating in a BECC-learning experience:

To be a staff member of a cultural centre (managers, professionals, technicians, artists, project coordinators, teachers, trainers, freelancer, trainees, volunteers etc.);
To attend the preparation meeting, organised by ENCC.
To be active in the preparation and evaluation of the learning experience at the hosting organisation.
To report about the experience to ENCC.
To be active in the hosting of the staff member of the partner organisation.

Participation conditions for the hosting- and sending organisations.

To be a member of ENCC (or become in the same year).
To identify a clear need for the learning experience within the organisation, to create ownership for the project within the organisation.
To sign an individual agreement with the partner centre before hosting and sending somebody.
4. To take the responsibility for the preparation, organisation and evaluation of a qualitative learning experience: accommodation, coaching, language, involvement, programme etc. following the ENCC model.
To prepare & support the staff members sent and received.
To report about the experience to ENCC.
To communicate the results & outcomes to the outside world.
To explore the possibilities of a long-term partnership with the other organisation.

Finances:
ENCC offers a financial contribution of 800 € to the hosting organisation, to be used for accommodation, programme, catering, international and local transport costs of the hosted participant.

To find out more, visit the European Network of Cultural Centres website.

Source:

www.encc.eu