PROJECT
About THE NOVA
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In order to promote and strengthen employee’s potentials and thus the innovation capabilities of the 25 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe, a good and inspiring personnel training is required. Often, unattractive training formats as well as a lack of empathy on the part of company trainers cause a lack of interest in training among SME employees. Obviously, innovative approaches and tools for the design and implementation of company training are needed.
Nowadays, professional artists are successfully discovering new markets towards providing training services to companies (i.e. in personnel development) and are incrementally recognized as innovation drivers for other branches. THE NOVA project also relies on the potentials of the creative industry and aims at integrating performative and theater-based methods into the design and implementation of personnel training in SMEs.
THE NOVA Objectives
To boost skills and competences of SMEs trainers towards designing and delivering theater-based staff training;
To raise awareness of SMEs employees and managerial staff for theater-based training;
To diversify access to training services for SMEs trainers and Europe’s SMEs;
To promote cooperation between SMEs, training providers, and creative industries.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO PROCEED
The main protagonists, internal and external SME trainers, first have to acquire innovative theater-based training techniques. For this purpose, THE NOVA team will develop a theater-based training program for SME trainers under the aegis of actors and dramaturges from the network RHENANIA. This program will be tested with 15 trainers from THE NOVA institutions in an intensive 5-day workshop, which will be delivered by THE NOVA partner RHENANIA, too.
In the next step, 15 trained SME trainers will create their own theater-based training sessions, and deliver them to their clientele (personnel in SMEs).
Finally, the most successful theater-based training seesions will be recorded in front of camera and made available online to wider audience free of charge for reuse, informal learning or further purposes.
ENVISAGED THE NOVA IMPACT
Short-term:
- improved professional and transversal competences of SMEs trainers and SME staff,
- access to an innovative theater-based training program for SMEs trainers;
- increased opportunities for work place learning and training for all,
Long-term:
- modernization of training services for SME trainers and SME employees at regional, national and EU level,
- improving companies’ performance and innovation potentials,
- reinforcing cooperation between SMEs, creative industries, and training providers.
