After four years of the CYANOTYPES project, policy consultation processes and experience of the CYANOTYPES Pilots, we are pleased to share new publications: the CYANOTYPES Policy Recommendations and six Implementation Pathways.
The CYANOTYPES Competence Framework offers a shared approach to understanding skills needs, exploring change and strengthening the capacity of individuals and organisations to act across the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI).
Through the Pilots, organisations and networks explored how the Framework and its supporting Toolkit could be applied in real learning environments. These experiences, alongside the project’s work, have informed the publications we are sharing today.
CYANOTYPES Policy Recommendations
The Policy Recommendations address policymakers, public authorities, intermediary organisations and funding organisations at European, national, regional and local levels. They explore how policy can help make competence development more visible and usable, connect learning with professional realities, strengthen infrastructures for learning and experimentation, and enable policy itself to learn and adapt.
Implementation Pathways
Different actors across the CCSI face different challenges, opportunities and starting points. Their needs and contexts for upskilling and reskilling are not the same. To respond to this diversity, CYANOTYPES has developed six Implementation Pathways. Building on the project’s policy recommendations and experience from the Pilots, they offer different routes for putting the Framework into practice, each addresses a particular group of actors:
- Creative Professionals & Individuals
- Creative Organisations & Businesses
- Creative Sectors & Networks
- Learning Organisations — Higher Education
- Learning Organisations — Vocational Education and Training
- Policymakers
The pathways share a common approach: understanding the situation and what is needed, making competences and underlying assumptions visible, identifying opportunities for exploration and experimentation, and reflecting on what has been learned before considering next steps. The pathways encourage actors to explore their skills challenges and be prepared to question how those challenges are understood in the first place: Are we asking the right questions?
We hope these publications will be useful in your own work and provide a starting point for further exchange, collaboration and action.
Please also share the publications with relevant colleagues, partners and organisations in your network.