Practice
VOLICITY - Vocational Learning in Creative Industries for Turkish Youth
Vocational Learning in Creative Industries for Turkish Youth (VOLICITY) engages partners in three countries (Germany, Turkey and UK) in the development of a modularised e-learning programme, targeted at young people from Turkish Speaking communities and focused on access to employment in the creative industries. VOLICITY will be developed through three community partners (Berlin, Istanbul and London), creative industry employers in each country, an accrediting body and a specialist e-learning training organisation. It runs from October 2005 for two years.
VOLICITY combines young people’s interests in popular cultural forms (music, new media, broadcasting etc) with structured opportunities to work directly with employers from the creative and cultural industries. Employer and Youth Forums will be established in each partner country and will be linked via the community-based partners. These experiences will be structured into a series of vocational training programmes (new media, performing arts and galleries and museums), each under-pinned by a strong e-learning base. Tutors from each community organisation will guide trainees through the design and development of the programmes, supported by employers who will relate the programmes to future employment opportunities. A training manual will be devised by employers and VOLICITY’s lead ICT partner to help facilitate this process. One of the UK’s partners, the Open College Network London Region will take responsibility for accrediting the learning programme and also for exploring issues of qualification equivalence and possible transfer across the EU and in Turkey. A VOLICITY website will be developed and dissemination conferences will held in each partner country.
For more information contact:
Adrian Chappell London Metropolitan University
133 Whitechapel High Street,
London
E1 7QA
UK
E-mail: a.chappell@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 020 7320 3427
Fax: +44 020 7320 3495