About the European dimension in OpenArch partnership WP1 Project Management WP3 The Dialogue with Visitors Manel Gómez Gutiérrez La Ciutadella Ibèrica de Calafell (CAT) 7 October 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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