Promoting Cultural Dialogue
The project has received funding from the Nordplus program.
The Higher Education Network on “Promoting Cultural Dialogue” aims to promote cooperation between the Baltic Sea Region countries in the field of craft education and promoting cultural understanding. The project will be conducted as a one-week intensive course in Joensuu, in Finland.
The course is available for craft teacher students and their teachers at University of Latvia, Vytautas Magnus University (in Lithuania), Tallinn University (in Estonia) and University of Eastern Finland. The aim of the course is to enhance cultural dialogue in the context of craft and so-called transversal competencies: cultural competence, innovative skills, creativity, and sustainability.
This kind of intensive course can establish strong partnerships between the institutions and develop a framework for collaborative learning and cultural exchange. To achieve aims, we use such as collaborative design (co-design) and different methods to mix cultural elements, such as AI-based image mixers.
This course will be 2 ECTS points, and all together 16 students will attend the course (four students from each university) with seven teachers. Research data on significant learning experiences will be collected from participants for a scholarly article.
Partner institutions:
– Tallinn University (EE)
– University of Latvia, Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology (LV)
– Vytautas Magnus University (LT)