Topic: culture

The project aims to analyse ways in which universities can help cultural heritage institutions to recover from the crisis caused by the pandemic, to create a tool for universities to use open innovation methods and practices, to create a methodology for using higher education-led open innovation in cultural heritage institutions, to pilot and analyse the methodology.

The project aims to study and test the quality and properties of wool from indigenous and most common sheep breeds in Estonia and Norway, to create study materials and pilot wool study programmes for textile students.

It is a joint project of different faculties of the University of Tartu, in the framework of which training courses are organised in the Community Education and Hobby Activity curriculum of the UT Viljandi Culture Academy to develop the practical training system of the curriculum.

The Covid-19 crisis made it impossible for the performers and the audience to be physically present in the same space. Theatres started to look for the possibilities to perform online, and elektron.art was one of the first platforms to provide a virtual venue for performing artists. The biggest problem of online theatre is the lack of real-time communication between the audience and the performers, making it hard to assess the success of the virtual performance without knowing how the audience felt during the show.

Project partners plan to develop a joint study module and an online platform for learning, teaching and sharing repertoire, and to organise student exchange as intensive weeks in all partner countries.

In the summer of 2021, in cooperation with Viljandi, we tested the format of a Creative Entrepreneurship Incubator-Accelerator, in the framework of which four new enterprises were created and registered in Viljandi by the teams who had completed entrepreneurship courses at the UT Viljandi Culture Academy.

Viljandi has been a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network since 2019. The network covers seven creative fields: film, crafts and folk art, design, gastronomy, literature, media arts, and music. From Estonia, the network includes Tartu as a Creative City of Literature and Viljandi as a Creative City of Crafts and Folk Arts.

The project aims to create strategic tools to raise awareness of intellectual property in Estonia, particularly copyright, including educational materials, visual identity and core messages, and an awareness campaign toolbox.