CultHeRit: Identifying solutions to the imbalances in the cultural heritage labor market in the Danube region by improving accessibility for young professionals.
funding ProgrammeInterreg Danube Programme | ClientMAK- Museum of Applied Arts | durationJanuary 2024 - June 2026 |
The CultHeRit project aims to optimize the sectoral labour market by bringing about positive changes in current employment practices in the cultural heritage sector in the Danube region.
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Application:
- Writing texts according to briefing and in coordination with the MAK on the basis of EU wording;
- Advice and support in the preparation of the MAK budget according to the funding guidelines of the EU programme and templates.
Project Summary
The project will identify and test solutions for the brain drain of young talents and professionals from the cultural heritage sector in the Danube region. This phenomenon manifests itself both on a sectoral level (from cultural heritage to more lucrative sectors) and on a territorial level (from East to West). The multidisciplinary partnership from the region therefore aims to bring about positive changes to current employment practices in the sector in the region through a series of interlinked activities. By improving the accessibility of the sector to young professionals, the project will help to slow and reverse the brain drain from the sector and retain the skilled workforce in heritage institutions.
Expected results and impact
Starting with the research of specific data on employment practices in the CHIM (Cultural Heritage Institutes and Museum) sector, existing educational offers will be recorded and students and potential employees will be asked about their expectations and needs by means of questionnaires and surveys. Following the subsequent development of an "ideal transnational employment model", a pilot action will be tested in ten partner institutions - including the MAK - in which one person will test this model under real employment conditions in the working world for a period of one year. The final evaluation will result in new approaches and solutions to the existing problems of employment relationships in the CHIM sector, which should lead to a viable data-based transnational employment model at the end of the project.
Project partners:
- Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest (Hungary)
- MAK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Austria)
- KUPF OÖ - Kulturplattform Oberösterreich in Linz (Austria)
- National Institute of Heritage Romania in Bucharest (Romania)
- National Museum for the History of Transylvania in Cluj Napoca (Romania)
- Bihor County Employment Agency in Oradea (Romania)
- Republic Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments in Belgrade (Serbia)
- Intermunicipal Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments in Subotica (Serbia)
- Serbia Trade Union of Employees in Cultural Institutions in Belgrade (Serbia)
- Museum of Decorative Art in Prague (Czech Republic)
- Institute for Protection of Cultural-Historical and Natural Heritage of Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb (Croatia)
- Research and Education Centre Mansion Rakičan (Slovenia)
Project area:
- Austria
- Hungary
- Romania
- Serbia
- Czech Republic
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- Slovenia
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