Cultural Leadership Academy

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Cultural Leadership Academy

In a nutshell

The Cultural Leadership Academy is an educational training programme aimed at turning officials from the governments of united territorial communities into cultural management leaders. They join with an idea for a project and graduate with an effective plan of how to implement it: engage different target audiences, design a strategy, and manage and scale the activity. After the studying is over, they have a chance to go on an educational and networking trip to the EU.

We are working on this Academy in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Ukraine, the Ministry of culture and informational policy of Ukraine, and the Institute of Cultural Policy.

If you have any questions, contact

Nataliia Marchukova
Cultural Leadership Academy at Goethe-Institut
nataliia.marchukova@houseofeurope.org.ua
Valerii Bublyk
Infrastructure Grants and Cultural Leadership Academy
valerii.bublyk@houseofeurope.org.ua

Duration of the Cultural Leadership Academy

Five modules of five days each within a year

Number of participants in the Cultural Leadership Academy

Approximately 200 participants divided into 8 groups

Useful links

Programme page on the Goethe-Institut Ukraine website

To look through the upcoming events and learn more on the trainers

We strive to support the development of Ukrainian culture beyond the nation’s capital and regional centres. Such development requires motivated leaders: people that will define modern culture and engage regional communities to shape it.

We designed the Cultural Leadership Academy as a place to become one. Officials from governments of united territorial communities, in teams of five people, join the programme to master cultural management. They come in with an idea and learn how to turn it into a successful project: define target audiences, draft strategy, apply project management, evaluate the results, and scale the initiative. While working on these skills cultural leaders-to-be get to know each other and form strong networks all over Ukraine.

The call for participants is closed. Follow this page or subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know if we launch another call for participation in the Cultural Leadership Academy.

This is for realising your cultural project successfully

You will learn everything needed to carry out your cultural project successfully. We will start with research, going through Ukrainian legislation on culture and decentralisation and conducting cultural mapping to define resources available. Then we proceed to planning: determining the target audience, mission, vision, goals and strategy of the project. To wrap it up, we will concentrate on actual project management, evaluation of results, and scaling up.

This is for learning from proper experts

We have no doubts our trainers are professionals: each has at least two years of experience in teaching and consulting in the sphere of culture and creative industries. To help them design a well-worked programme, we held five facilitated sessions with them. Learn more about the 14 experts that will be teaching you here.

This is for establishing ties with cultural managers from other regions of Ukraine

Learn how teams from other united territorial communities deal with challenges you can relate to and find among them partners to carry out projects with. You will get along swimmingly, as you have a lot in common.

This is for exchanging experience with the EU

The best the Academy’s participants have a chance to visit Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic or Austria to meet local cultural managers and learn about their experiences. Consider the trip as an opportunity to plan a collaborative project with one of the countries on that list.

This is for professional advancement regardless of the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic caused the Academy to go online. Participants meet in Zoom and discuss the materials in Moodle. Although there are no in-person events, the programme is still full of new acquaintances and communication.

We connect people and opportunities

We support professional and creative exchange between Ukrainians and their EU colleagues. This encompasses 20+ programme lines managed by us and a constantly increasing database of the best opportunities offered by other European organizations. This is just the beginning: more opportunities, events and acquaintances are coming.

We are all over Ukraine

We are convinced that we should go where our support and information are needed the most: out in the regions. Organising Pop-Up Hubs, creative entrepreneurship in the regions is stimulated, whereas the Mobile Pavilion sets our concept on the move.