The consortium took part in the Kick-off Meeting of NICHE 2 – Nurturing Intangible Cultural Heritage for Entrepreneurship, a new Erasmus Plus project under the Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training (KA220-VET)
This new project is based on NICHE (2020-2022) that had the objective to promote entrepreneurial initiative in the ICH sector. It had a positive evaluation from the NA and a wide outreach, 143.150 unique visits to the NICHE platform (nicheproject.eu) and 5.200 of people trained online.
NICHE 2 Project aims to provide innovative training to ICH (Intangible Cultural Heritage) operators to promote the sustainable growth of ICH sector. NICHE 2 aims to enhance the professionalism of ICH operators by equipping them with skills identified by the official the European Sustainability Competence Framework and ease the twin transition (green + digital) of the sector as a whole
NICHE 2 has 7 partners from 6 countries: Croatia, France, Iceland, Italy, Belgium, Spain.
The general objectives of the project are to:
- Contribute to the competitiveness and growth of the ICH sector through the development of an innovative professional profile that embeds environmental and green skills
- Strengthen the competences of ICH professionals and entrepreneurs through the development of innovative training courses on green and sustainability knowledge, competences and skills based on the GreenComp Framework
The target groups are:
- Professionals, who hold positions either temporary or permanent, in Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Employees and various statutes of workers contributing to the Heritage Workforce
- People who can leverage ICH to develop their own business idea and entrepreneurial venture
- Professionals of ICH operating in civil society organizations, such as local associations and NGOs
- VET professionals and VET organisations (formal, non formal, informal)
The meeting was held online and the partners had the opportunity to introduce themselves by dedicating the first part of the meeting to the presentation of the organisations that will collaborate in the development of NICHE 2. During the meeting the partners analysed the details of the project plan and precisely defined roles and responsibilities for the implementation of the project activities. After reviewing all the objectives and results to be produced, the partners established the visual identity of the project by choosing, the logo and the website domain that will be online very soon.
