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Arts and Humanities Entrepreneurship Hub
The Arts and Humanities Enterprise Hub (AHEH) is an Erasmus + Knowledge Alliance funded project. The three-year project will start in January 2018.
AHEH is a major new European 3-year project that brings together an alliance of 14 partners from 7 European countries, led by Swansea College of Art, UWTSD. Partners from academia and industry will work together to jointly research, design, test and disseminate a programme of entrepreneurial training for Arts and Humanities staff and students.
European Arts and Humanities students face challenges with accessing graduate level employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. These courses typically do not have a direct route to the job market, reflected in higher unemployment and lower salaries. There can be a lack of knowledge from academics about aligning subject expertise with wider industry need as well as a lack of recognition by businesses of the wider benefits and skill sets of Arts and Humanities graduates.
Dedicated support in HEIs for entrepreneurial activity has been mainly focused on business, economics and ICT faculties. A&H Students come from a very different starting point, with education and skills that do not meet industry need in an obvious way. Therefore, a fresh approach is needed to develop a tailored A&H entrepreneurship model that improves the long-term entrepreneurial prospects for A&H students.
The AHEH alliance will:
- Bring together 14 partners from across 7 EU member states to improve the entrepreneurial capacity of A&H students.
- Jointly research, design, test and disseminate an innovative programme of entrepreneurial training for A&H staff/ students aligned with the EntreComp Competence Framework. This builds upon partners’ prior experience of EU-funded enterprise projects.
- Have HEIs, businesses and stakeholders working together to champion the value of A&H students to a wider audience and ensure that industry need is reflected in the training programmes.
- Create 7 new A&H Entrepreneurship Hubs situated in partner faculties. These will be the specialist conduits for permanently improving the entrepreneurial skill-sets of A&H staff and students as well as a template for wider exploitation.
- Create a website that will complement the 7 Hubs as an ongoing resource-base for disseminating/exploiting outputs. These include:
- 3 training programmes: HEI, A&H Students, Businesses
- 3 manuals: Trainers, Users, AHEH Management
- 2 contextual reports: Academic & Business
The partnership will offer further opportunities to develop student exchange programmes and to explore shared research interests and opportunities for international collaboration.
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The project AHEH, signed under the Grant Agreement 588387-EPP-1-2017-1-UK-EPPKA2-KA, is Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
