What competences would Vincent van Gogh have needed in order to sell more of his paintings in his lifetime? It is hard for anyone to answer this question but for today’s artists and creative sector stakeholders a new Erasmus + project entitled ‘BidToArt’ will provide you with some tips to help you to identify these competences.

In many European countries, the guardians of Intangible Cultural Heritage have struggled to make their living within the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) (Ibañez y López-Aparicio, 2018). The COVID-19 outbreak has worsen this situation and many people related to the field of cultural promotion face serious economic deprivation.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs are crucial for identifying new avenues to more sustainable and inclusive growth, because of their twin roles in creating and diffusing innovation and providing employment (OECD, 2014).

The kick-off meeting of the Skill-pics project was successfully finalized on the 9th of October 2020.

The European Commission has emphasised the need to develop key transversal skills in all education sectors to sustain the high-value knowledge economy.

By the time young people in the EU leave compulsory education most of them have regularly made use of computers and the internet for a variety of activities.

Enhancing the financial competences of low skilled adults through the development of an interactive online game, a guide and a course is the scope of the EUROINVESTMENT project. With this in mind, the project’s consortium held its second transnational partner meeting on October 9 & 10, 2019, in Nicosia, Cyprus. The partners discussed and planned out the next phase of the project, which focusses on the completion of the online game.