Reinventing Mentoring in Arts Management (REMAM)

Reinventing Mentoring in Arts Management (REMAM) is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership project that aims to co-create a new comprehensive understanding of cultural management mentorship as a framework for professional life-long learning as well as part of academic education. Its focus is on establishing and maintaining a sustainable interaction between students, potential employers and field practitioners, simultaneously renewing the understanding of mentoring and creating a novel way for “mentorage” that allows co-creation of knowledge.

The aim of the project is to create a learning model that allows both the development of analytical and academic competencies; to capture the current field of practices, tools and influence agencies responsible for occupational profiling and to highlight the importance of a mentor as an occupation and further advocate for its definition in other partner countries. From one side, the project attempts to map the needs of practitioners, who can share their knowledge, and from the other side, the needs of students, whose task is to master the skills of current practices by gaining support for their career building at home as well as for the global international labour market.

1. BOOK

Perspectives on Mentorship – Reinventing Mentoring in Arts and Creative Industries Management offers a unique exploration of this subject by presenting different perspectives, raising thought-provoking questions, and examining ways to manage a mentoring programme. It is important to remember that mentoring does not happen by itself and that it requires management and intervention in order to be sustainable. University students interested in arts management will find the book invaluable in obtaining a better understanding of how mentoring could be approached and help them in the development of their professional identity. It does not present one universal truth or method but instead is about sharing experiences.

From the academic perspective, the book encourages readers to approach mentoring with an open mind, offering tools to reflect on the process of building programmes around the core of mentoring – a dynamic human relationship which affects the identity of both parties – and then to build on the different layers around that foundation.

The book seeks to provide insights into the different layers that are created during the mentoring process. It poses a variety of questions that can apply to specific programmes and helps readers understand how to effectively manage and sustain mentorship relationships.

2. POLICY PAPER

Reinventing Mentoring in Arts Management Policy Paper presents research into the co-creation of a new comprehensive understanding of cultural management mentorship as a framework for professional life-long learning with a focus on establishing and maintaining a sustainable interaction between students, potential employers, and field practitioners, simultaneously renewing the understanding of mentoring and creating a novel way for “mentorage” that allows the co-creation of knowledge.

This policy paper focuses on four issues of value for policymakers:

1. Value Co-creation and Knowledge Sharing
2. Innovation and Digitalisation
3. Diversity and Sustainability
4. Social Equality, Accessibility, and Inclusion in the Cultural Sector

Partners:

• Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn, leading partner)
• University of Antwerpen (Belgium)
• University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain)
• Creative Mentorship (Belgrad, Serbia)
• Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga)
• Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences (Tallinn)