PARTNERS - MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza

EN“Museum Communicator” (Mu.Com.) is a training Projectfocused on the development of a professional profile calledthe Museum Communicator. This role is becomingincreasingly important both inside the Museums and also inrelating to the cultural associations and agencies managingmuseums.There is a need to have a specific training programme forMuseum Communicators that will enable them to bestpromote the activities of the museums to the general publicas well the mass media. However, there is a growing need tohave skilled, trained persons who can create and sustain linkswith all the other local, national and European organisationsand institutions who can contribute to the long term successof the museum. This includes the policy makers as well as theprivate and voluntary sector involvement.The Museum Communicator is under development insidesome of the larger national museums who have dedicatedstaff teams and resources. But often this professional profile isnot available in the small and middle-sized Museums. Theresult is that people are often taking on the role as part oftheir other duties and without any specific training.The “Museum Communicator” training Project has twotargets. Adults employed in Museums who need to developspecific competences in the field of communication. Alsoyoung people accessing the labour market and who needinitial training in order to build up their answer to the presentchallenges of a peculiar market as that of the “culturalenterprise" is.The Project is developing a course based on an innovativemethodology that utilises new ITC technologies. This will bestrengthened by educational tools that have beenspecifically tailored by and on behalf of a network ofprestigious Museums and educational Institutions from fourdifferent countries (Italy, Bulgaria, United Kingdom andRomania).The course will allow users to acquire high-level standardcompetences that through the Project Partnership will beinternationally recognised.“Museum Communicator” is realised in the frame of theLifelong Learning programme, Leonardo da Vincisub-programme.PARTNERSCIDEMUniversity of Rome - itEUROINNOVANET - itRegional History Museum“Academician Jordan Ivanov”,town of Kyustendil - bgProvincia di Ragusa - itMuseo Internazionaledelle Ceramiche in Faenza - itUniversity Lucian BlagaSibiu - roNational Brukenthal Museum- roOake Associates - ukThis project has been funded with support from the EuropeanCommission. This brochure reflects the views only of the author, and theCommission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be madeof the information contained therein.@