About the European dimension in OpenArch partnership - OpenArch Conference, Calafell 2015

About the European dimension in OpenArch partnership

WP1 Project ManagementWP3 The Dialogue with Visitors

Manel Gómez Gutiérrez

La Ciutadella Ibèrica de Calafell (CAT)

7 October 2015

Skimming the Grant Agreement…

• “The Project supports the trans-national mobility of people working in the cultural sector”

• “The Project encourages intercultural dialogue”• “To gather people working in this sector also means to make

a stronger feeling of being European”

• “OpenArch focuses on the dialogue with visitors, the exchange of experience, joint experiments […] Eleven larger competence-building meetings take place across Europe. Besides that, dozens of staff exchanges, will run in all participating countries”

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Skimming the Grant Agreement…

• “The ultimate goal of the OpenArch project is therefore to help museums and their broader network to become more professional, and to demonstrate the value of working on a European level for the benefit of the visitor experience”

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Skimming the Grant Agreement…

• “Setting the local site and community in a European cultural context, understanding its role in a past contemporary setting, making the local globally significant”

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Five years later…have we achieved these goals?

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Fostering intercultural dialogue

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Fostering intercultural dialogue

• Different countries, different realities

• Building cooperation -> better understanding of each other

• Sharing experiences (profesional / personal)

• Feeling of being European

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“The OpenArch impression”

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“The OpenArch impression”

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• Show EU added value in activities. “Think OpenArch!”

• Show OpenArch to your public. Use your own websites, in your language.

• Show EC funding. “OpenArch builds”• Show improvements thanks to the project

Conclusions

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