Mentoring programme for digital readiness and creativity fostering

The Mentoring programme for digital readiness and creativity fostering is a result of Digital Push – a Project, co-financed by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Program, KA2 Cooperation for Adult Education, developed and delivered by seven Europeans organizations from Sweden, Portugal, Turkey, and Italy.

Digital push aims to support and empower unemployed/inactive people with low digital literacy, tailored to workers from the cultural sector, to foster their creative skills and use them as a means for promoting themselves, and their craft and ultimately improve their working conditions, bonds, and environments. Informed and inspired by the Guide for digital inclusion in culture, providing the methodology and tools to up and re-skill workers for creativity and digital skills, developed by the partnership, the Mentoring programme for digital readiness and creativity fostering combines the benefits of mentoring (i.e., closeness, informality, relationship, confidence, and self-efficacy) with tangible skills connected to digitalization (i.e. how to use digital tools, understand IT potential, how to channel IT tools to “boost” creative workers), alongside a focus on creativity development. Based on theory and evidence-based Mentoring, this Program has a cross-over learning process, practical technology-related material and activities that empower the mentees with basic digital competencies to support them to access the labour market.