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Higher Education and Training in Cultural Management and Cultural Policies in Southern Mediterranean Countries HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL POLICIES IN SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES Technical Assistance Unit of the Med Culture Programme for the promotion of culture as vector of Human, Social and Economic Development in South Mediterranean Countries. EUROPEAID CONTRACT: ENPI/2013/335-088 by MILENA DRAGICEVIC ŠEŠIC and NINA MIHALJINAC with the contribution of MOHAMED AMINE MOUMINE 2016 www.medculture.eu Hydea S.p.A. Via del Rosso Fiorentino, 2g. 50142 Florence – Italy This report has been produced with assistance of the European Union. The content of this report is the sole responsibility of the Technical Assistance Unit of the Med- Culture Programme. It reflects the opinion of contributing experts and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission. The Med-Culture Project is implemented by the Consortium led by HYDEA S.p.A. (Italy) in partnership with: TRANSTEC SA (Belgium), L’ INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L’AUDIOVISUEL (France) and the ROYAL FILM COM- MISSION OF JORDAN (Jordan). Higher Education and Training in Cultural management Page 2/70 and Cultural Policies in Southern Mediterranean countries TABLE OF CONTENT PAGE 1 Scope, aim and the method of the stud 4 2 State of the art in higher education 7 State of the arts in continuous professional development 3 21 (vocational education and training - life-long learning centre 4 Regional Capacity building agencies – actors and training centres 32 5 Training centres which function on the national and local levels 35 6 Cultural professionals – managerial abilities and skills 38 7 Obstacles and Opportunities 41 Recommendations for the development of capacity building programs in 8 47 the MENA region 9 Annexes A - List of interviewed practitioners, professors and trainers 52 B - Questionnaires 54 C - International MA in “Cultural Policy and Management”, Université Hassan II, Casablanca 62 Higher Education and Training in Cultural management Page 3/70 and Cultural Policies in Southern Mediterranean countries 1 SCOPE, AIM AND THE METHOD OF THE STUDY The goal of this research is to identify and meet the expectations of students as well as provide comprehensive information on consistent with the needs of the job market. available cultural management and cultural development (animation/mediation) training The research took into account the different programs for professionals and students educational and capacity building programs interested to work in the creative and cultural in the MENA region implemented in the last sectors in seven MENA countries: Israel, two years, briefly mentioning the initiatives Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, that took place before if important for a better Tunisia and Morocco. understanding of the current context of education/training for this field: Main tasks of the research were to gather information on different actors involved • University undergraduate and master’s in cultural policies and education/training programs; management; to map and evaluate the • Programs in life-long learning for cultural existing models, formats and contents of practitioners: managers, curators, training and education in the field of cultural animators, etc. (training in project management; to give a precise overview of management and other skills); Higher Education and lifelong learning for • Trainings in organizational development cultural policies and management in 7 MENA – for NGOs, enterprises and cultural countries and to give recommendations to institutions; different actors in the field. • Cultural leadership programs for recognised “actors of change”; The research identified what is at stake in • Entrepreneurial and specific trainings for each country including: policies towards new, emerging cultural operators and lifelong learning and existing educational enterprises. frameworks that focus on raising competences and skills of cultural operators Besides mapping, the content of this and managers in the region. Simultaneously, research -relevant to the issues of expertise the research has specified what is lacking and methods of capacity building- include: and what will be useful for cultural operators Overview of concepts and structures of the working in this field. programs as well as the use of different methods; Identification of modes and forms Gathered information should allow all of training programs and the certification interested local, regional and international they grant; Elaboration on conclusions with operators to develop, create or improve recommendations/guidelines for improving their vocational training programs in cultural the situation; Elaboration on general management and complement gaps in recommendations/guidelines for the regional existing programs by relying on existing aspect by proposing initiatives and ideas on capacities and introducing new initiatives (e.g. how to maximise efficiency on a regional level training of trainers). It should also contribute that advocates for complementarity, including to raise awareness amongst representatives possible joint initiatives & approaches, further of universities and ministries of higher development of already existing regional education on the priorities to address in the initiatives and the involvement of international framework of universities in order to attain actors such as EUNIC, EU med programs, better offerings in terms of cultural policies Open Society Foundation, etc. and cultural management education; ones that Higher Education and Training in Cultural management Page 4/70 and Cultural Policies in Southern Mediterranean countries 1 1 World-Wide Cultural The results of this research will be presented MENA / EUROPEAN TRAINING IN CULTURE E-Resources, http://www. in the framework of regional seminars and AND CREATIVE SECTOR MANAGEMENT culturelink.org/dbase/ discussed with national and local players 2014 / 2015, Med Culture Reports http://www. links.html, accessed 15 involved in educational policies as well as medculture.eu/library/reports, Development December 2015. with cultural practitioners. Recommendations of Clusters in Cultural and Creative industries of the study will offer the basis for advocacy in the southern Mediterranean, UNIDO http:// 2 Cultural professionals work and will contribute to define and www.cci- clusters.org/sites/default/files/ that participated in the implement concrete actions to contribute to CCI_%20Mapping_Results%20english.pdf, survey have different the development of a better reality for the field Country reports Preparatory Action ‘Culture training experiences: of training/education in cultural policies and in the EU’s External Relations’, Mohamed from master’s degree cultural management. Said Omar, Culture et management en education obtained abroad Algérie, Margaret A. Majumdar, Mohammed (like Paris III, Barcelona, METHODS AND DYNAMICS Saad, Transition and Development in Algeria: etc.), foreign vocational OF THE RESEARCH Economic, Social and Cultural Challenges, education (Goethe Institute Cultural Policies in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Cultural management Desk research included: Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and 6-week-program, British Tunisia, Culture Resource, ECF, Najib Harabi, Council Leadership • Collection of available data per country on Creative Industries: Case Studies from Arab initiative) through different lifelong learning for cultural practitioners; Countries, etc). short sporadic trainings of • Statistical reports from UNESCO including UNESCO (devoted to the implementation reports of 2005 UNESCO INTERVIEWS WERE DONE WITH implementation of 2005 Convention; IDENTIFIED KEY ACTORS IN EACH convention), UNESCO • Country records of European Training SPECIFIC COUNTRY: Germany, foreign institutes Foundation; (French Institute, Instituto • Overview of existing literature, which • Leaders of training centres and trainers Cervantes, etc.) to long and covers training and educational (regional trainers and EU trainers active in short term regional training experiences in the domain of culture; the field); programs organised mostly • Public policies that address increasing • Cultural professionals by Al Mawred, Racines, but employment opportunities, regulating • Experts, researchers also by numerous NGOs labour markets in the previously • Cultural practitioners2 to fulfill their own capacity mentioned countries; • Policy-makers and other officials (who building needs and needs • Cultural policy of each country regarding were open to share their experiences of the cultural operators lifelong learning for cultural practitioners; and answer our queries); in local environment. It is • Mapping the key actors – internet survey • Academics (leaders of MA programs and indicative that within Al (universities, training centres, lifelong professors of relevant subjects covering Mawred and few other learning providers) art management, cultural policy, copyright training programs organised laws, heritage management, cultural by foreign institutes, cultural Desk research combined literature overview, tourism, creative economy, creative professionals had firstly the as well as an overview of different statistics industries...). participated as trainees and regarding cultural and educational sector The number of interviewees differed from then as trainers. development1. Many studies and reports country to country as there were great have been done for different international discrepancies among countries. For example, organizations and have been taken into the number of academic interviewees is account, as
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