The MOSAIC training content has been shaped for the craft professionals and educators, but at the same time, the MOSAIC partners have recognised a potential for content to be shared with stakeholders across the Creative and Cultural sector, and beyond.

Creative Skills Week – Amsterdam

To this end, MOSAIC partners Materahub and EfVET in September 2024, showcased the social inclusion training content at the  Creative Skills Week, an annual event dedicated to shaping future skills provision for the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries (CCSI), powered by SACCORD and in association with CYANOTYPES.

This participatory workshop created a moment of reflection and practical insight into some social skills that find application in different contexts including education.

Why is it important to develop skills related to inclusion and diversity? How can we create training and working environments that increasingly recognise, value and support differences so that they are transformed from obstacles into richness and growth by creating the best opportunities for learning and personal expression, especially in the cultural and creative sector?

These are some of the questions that guided the development of the social inclusion training module within the Mosaic Project, aimed at teachers of VET schools and providers in the craft sector.

The Social skills transition session during the Creative Skills Week was adapted and presented to explore the importance of fostering creative inclusion strategies when developing learning pathways, and why embracing diversity and encouraging equality and inclusion through positive teaching methods are fundamental skills for all educators, across all sectors, beginning with self-awareness.

Some of the topics of the training module were presented in a practical and interactive way, such as unconscious biases, what they are, how they work, which ones can most influence the training environment (gender bias, ethnic bias, etc.).

Through some of the practical activities the participants were able to experience how cognitive biases are automatic and frequently unconscious mechanisms of our mind but becoming aware of them can equip us with tools to minimise their influence in the evaluation of others and and our related decisions and actions  both in the training environment but also in other contexts. Requirements that also guided the choice of the other topics of the social inclusion module such as Universal design for learning, positive learning as a method, mindfulness self-compassion, transversality and adaptability also in other fields and with different targets to ensure the sustainability and scalability of the results.

All Digital Summit – Madrid

Materahub then went on to showcase the MOSAIC training outputs at the ALL DIGITAL SUMMIT on ‘Engaged Digital Citizenship’ in Madrid in October 2024, a European movement dedicated to enhancing digital skills across Europe.

Social and inclusion skills that facilitate the structuring of an accessible, equitable learning environment that recognises and values diversity are also central themes of the digitalisation training module designed and developed for teachers. Technology must be designed and used to facilitate inclusive processes and not increase gaps and divides.

Related to the transferability and applicability of the topics addressed in the Mosaic training modules, these themes were addressed and deepened during All digital summit where the digitisation module was presented, highlighting the strong correlation between digital, new technologies and their use in order to make training accessible and inclusive, a link and topic that is increasingly relevant for organisations dealing with digital also in different sectors