CROP – Creativity Rises Opportunities for Partnership

CROP enhances the creative thinking of recent Arts and Humanities graduates through the spillover concept.

“We develop practical, high-impact solutions.”

Enhancing Creative Thinking

CROP uses the concept of spillover applied to creativity to enhance the creative thinking of students and graduates who have been in A&H for no more than two years. Students – during their training – will be actively involved in community networks with cultural and creative industries (CCI) stakeholders and develop practical skills in the search for solutions with high local impact.

Students – during their training – will be actively involved in community networks with cultural and creative industries (CCI) stakeholders and develop practical skills in the search for solutions with high local impact.

Main Objectives

Activities

The project includes:

  • Mapping and identification of needs/challenges proposed by cultural and creative industries (CCI) stakeholders
  • The development and delivery of an online master’s course in which theoretical lectures alternate with practical workshops including peer learning sessions with lecturers, experts and stakeholders for the development of solutions/products/services and/or processes, analysed in project work
  • Dissemination of results

Outcomes:

The project aims to produce the following outcomes:

  • Equip students with certified knowledge and skills (ODB) expendable in the cultural and creative industries (CCI) labour market and/or in the development of their own business idea
  • Stimulating teachers of HEIs to use new teaching methodologies in curricular pathways
  • Strengthening local and civic engagement processes to build up community networks
  • Sharing best practices and solutions that are scalable and/or replicable in other contexts/territories

CROP & Events

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CROP & Results

This section will be updated to reflect the results of project and interesting highlights throughout the project.

Phone
+358504390518
Email
Silja.Suntola@xamk.fi
Department
Luovan talouden tutkimusyksikkö
Silja Suntola
Project Manager
+358504390518
Silja.Suntola@xamk.fi
Phone
+358447028583
Email
Miikka-Petteri.Lesonen@xamk.fi
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Department
Luovan talouden tutkimusyksikkö

“I am a ‘multimedia artist,’ a gamification enthusiast, and I am deeply interested in game design, AV technology, and culture, as well as their intersections. I am quiet, attentive, and compassionate. I enjoy finding solutions to all kinds of problems.

I work in Kymenlaakso, in Kouvola, at the Kasarminmäki campus in Meduusa Studio. My primary role is as a gamification and digitalization expert in the Creative Industries Research Unit, participating in various projects. I am also enthusiastic about using imagination and often apply the method of ‘Lateral Thinking.’ I am passionate about developing AV and media solutions, digital gadgets, and shaping the present and future of the Future Experience Lab.”

Miikka-Petteri Lesonen
RDI Specialist
+358447028583
Miikka-Petteri.Lesonen@xamk.fi
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Facts

Project name:

CROP – Creativity Rises Opportunities for Partnership

Project duration: 1.1.2024–31.10.2025

Info

Lead partner: Materahub
Partial partners: XAMK, UPTEC, University of Porto, YourScienceEDU

Budget

Financier and main source of funding: Erasmus+
Total budget: 380 000 €
Xamk part of the total budget: 80 000 €

Project partners

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