CO-OP, 2018 - 2021

CO-OP, Symposium in Rumšiškės, Lithuania, September 2019

CO-OP, Symposium in Rumšiškės, Lithuania, September 2019

CO-OP, Symposium in Rumšiškės, Lithuania, September 2019

CO-OP, Symposium in Rumšiškės, Lithuania, September 2019

CO-OP, Symposium in Rumšiškės, Lithuania, September 2019

Nordplus CO-OP, 2018 - 2021

Interfolk was coordinator of the Nordplus Adult development project: “Co-creative cooperation with culture volunteers and managers (COOP), Aug 2018- July 2021 (the period was prolonged one year from July 2020 to July 2021 due to the covid-19 pandemic).

Key output:

The partnership circle

included 5 partners from 4 countries , representing a transnational Nordic-Baltic sum of varied expertises and experiences in the field, which we could not find in just one of the participating countries.

Background

Co-creation has been the new buss word for an increased cooperation between the municipality, the local institutions and the civil society actors. But there are reasons to be vigilant of the great, positive 'communion tale'; because it can also be used to lay a smokescreen over the public top-down control of civil society initiatives.

Several field researches suggest that the “co-creation” can indicate public top-down management or public welfare savings disguised disguised as co-operation. One could say public governance and instrumentation of civil society resources and energy can be disguised as co-creation.

Instead of the big chromed 'communion narrative', we have to share stories about the small steps we take towards a more co-operative practice. When does it work well - and when less good? If the castle in the air is to come true, we need both to learn from what's going well - and what's happening less well.

Aim and objectives

The aim is to promote the knowledge and capacity of the local culture actors to provide

co-creative cooperation between local voluntary culture associations, professionals, public and private culture institutions, and the culture departments of the municipalities, including new inter-sector collaboration, open networking, new activity types and reach-out to new audiences.

The objectives were to:

Compile good practice and innovative approaches in co-creative cooperation.
Develop curricula and exemplary course packages for culture volunteers and managers.
Disseminate the results to the wider Nordic-Baltic community in as sustainable manner.

Key activities and results

To compile good practise and innovative approaches
- Desk research of state of the arts and publish Summary Survey Compendium
- Local idea workshops with Summary Reports on good practise and innovative approaches
- A Nordic Symposium to compile good Nordic practise and innovative approaches as well as outline key topics for further education in the field
To develop curricula and exemplary course packages for culture volunteers and managers
- Publish a Good practise Compendia (with reference to Symposium)
- Provide Curricula Guidelines
- Test a series of national pilot courses
- Publish a Curricula Summary Report
To disseminate the project results

- To provide a project portal, English ed.
- To complete national conferences (multiplier events)
- To provide other sustainable dissemination (news-mail, social media, articles, promotion at events, personal meetings with decision-makers, etc)

Target groups

The direct target groups are:

Managers and other culture providers (paid and voluntary staff) in the cross-cultural sector of amateur arts, voluntary culture and heritage.
Leaders and consultants from the culture departments.
Culture managers from the local culture institutions.

The indirect target groups are appropriate decision-makers, opinion-formers, policy-makers, funders, researchers and other multipliers in the field of culture and education.

More information

Task plan - incl. postponed 13 months due to covid-19

- from Aug 2018 - July 2020 (to Aug 2021)

FIRST PHASE: INITIATE & FOUND
1) Start-up management & methodological guidelines. Aug 2018. P1, IF
2) Methodological guide for research, workshops and symposium. Aug 2018. P1, IF
3) Kick-off partner meeting in Copenhagen. Sept 2018. P2, MOF
4) Desk research and Survey Compendium. Oct 2018-May 2019. P1, IF / P4, CL
5) Local idea workshops on good practise. Oct 2018 – May 2019. P3, VK / P4, CL
6) Nordic Symposium, Sept 2019 in Rumšiškės. May – Sept 2019. P5, OAM / P2, MOF

SECOND PHASE: DEVELOP & TEST
7) Second partner meeting in Rumšiškės, LT. Sept 2019. P5, OAM
8) Publish Symposium Compendia , five language ed. Sept - Nov 2019 P4, CL / P5, OAM
9) Develop curricula and exemplary course packages. Oct - Dec 2019. P1, IF
10) Test four national pilot courses. Jan - April 2020. P3, VK / P2, MOF
11) Third 2-day partner meeting in Cesis, LV. Nov 2019. P4, CL
12) Publish Curricula Report, six language PDF-ed. Oct 2019 – Feb 2020. P1, IF

THIRD PHASE: DISSEMINATE & EXPLOIT
13) Four national multiplier events. Feb - Dec 2020. P3, VK / P5, OAM
14) Fourth 2-day partner meeting in Leknes, Lofoten, NO. August 2021. P3, VK
15) Final dissemination and exploitation. Jan – Aug 2021. P2, MOF

WHOLE PERIOD: TRANSVERSAL WORK
16) Project website and Knowledge Portal. Aug 2018 – Aug 2021. P2, MOF
17) Dissemination incl. project website. Aug 2018 – Aug 2021. P2, MOF
18) Evaluation. Aug 2018 – Aug 2021. P4, CL
19) Project Management. Aug 2018 – Aug 2021. P1, IF