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Managing Art Projects with Societal Impact MAPSI Webpage We are glad to announce that MAPSI brand new webpage is successfully launced and available at www.mapsi.eu. At our website you can find all the relevant information about the project in general, about the partner institutions involved in the project, about the persons contributing to the project, overview about the main milestones and the main aim of the project and of course the section with the running news related to the project.

As we are still in the beginning phase with the MAPSI project the new information will be added at the ongoing bases, thus it is worth to check it out more than just once! We are planning to add a more detailed information and study materials directed to our three main target groups – learners, teachers and practitioners in the field of culture management. The webpage will serve as a gate to MAPSI e­learning environment designed for students as well as for teachers as a repository of case studies, articles and study materials.

In the case you would like to receive MAPSI newsletter automatically to your e­mail, you can suscribe it through www.mapsi.eu Welcome to MAPSI webpage www.mapsi.eu!

Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre is

happy to lead an exiting international development project MAPSI and be responsible for sustaining the project results and knowledge created for next generations.

Two of the main target groups of MAPSI are learners and educators. The project aims to create entirely new specialization module in managing societal impact of the arts for the learners, applying case study based approach as well useful teaching materials and competence for the educators. The specialization module will consist of: an international cross­disciplinary Summer School (piloted in August 2014) case­based e­learning platform learning by developing method based internship Study Book with materials for educators and learners All of these activities are essentially important for the students of universities involved in the project and will be sustained and updated also after the project has ended, with the initiative of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and input from the international partners.

In addition MAPSI aims for high academic quality and plans to promote and share knowledge gained in the project at the international academic events and conferences, also after the project is finished. The practitioners, experts and politicians will be introduced to the Guide Book compiled as an outcome of the project as well as involved in project dissemination activities, also with the help from project associate partners: Creative Estonia and Creative Finland. Thus the wider knowledge about the project will be shared in the societies at large.

MAPSI Summer School, Helsinki, on 25­30 August 2014

MAPSI project’s first pilot is the Summer School that takes place in Helsinki, Finland on 25­30 August 2014. A series of lectures, presentations, case studies, visits to cultural institutions, group works and discussions gives students a great possibility to learn about cultural, social and economic impacts of cultural projects and institutions.

Teaching will take place at recently built Helsinki Music Center. Students will spend the last night of the course at Kallio­Kuninkala located by the lake Tuusulanjärvi. Same beautiful lake scenery tempted many romantic period Finnish artists to build their houses by the lake including composer Jean Sibelius and painters Pekka Halonen and Eero Järnefelt.

About 25 students from the project partner institutions are participating the Summer School.

They come from different countries and have different artistic and economic backgrounds. In interaction with each other they will learn about impacts of arts but also about the Finnish culture and cultures of one another’s home countries.

More information about Tuusulanjärvi www.tuusulanrantatie.fi/en/ and Kallio­Kuninkala: www.kuninkala.fi/etusivu_eng.asp

Learning by Developing ­action model based internship The pedagogical approach of MAPSI studies will be based on the Learning by Developing (LbD) – action model developed by Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland). Awarded and internationally assessed LbD rediscovers John Dewey’s pragmatic educational thinking (Learning

by Doing) in Higher Education when facing the future challenges of transforming competence requirements. Learning is understood as consisting of restructuring and building experiences, managing new situations and acting in a purposeful way with changing habits. The learning environment is a real­life RDI project that is genuinely rooted in the working life, which aims to produce new practices and whose progress requires collaboration between students, lecturers, and working life experts, end­users too.

To introduce the LbD –action model and experiences on internships based on it, Laurea has produced two reports: LbD as the new pedagogical approach for the MAPSI internship and MAPSI Internship Kit. The latter describes the guidelines for MAPSI internship to be implemented after the Summer School.

The objectives of the MAPSI internship to promote professional skills are: The student learns a responsible and professional way of working

The student learns to assess his or her own activities and obtains capabilities for multi­ professional cooperation The student learns about a development­oriented approach to work and how to apply it in his or her work.

The student's expertise is strengthened within a joint framework combining three areas (Managing Art Projects with Societal Impact) The scope of the internship is 5 or 10 credits. The scope of five credits corresponds to one month's worth of studies and 10 credits to two months’ worth of studies. The internship can be conducted at a non­profit community or organisation, an organisation providing public services or a private service producer implementing the MAPSI perspectives. A MAPSI internship can also be implemented as a business­incubator type of project where the students form their own practice company. The students may conduct their internships either individually or in small groups. It is recommendable that the groups formed are multi­professional.

The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is developing the dissemination working plan. The aims are to give visibility to the project, foster interactions with other research and learning programmes, and disseminate the results through professional and academic networks.

The dissemination of the project, activities and results has started, and we are mainly working in two different areas: the presence of MAPSI on social networks and the participation in activities by other research networks and professional associations.

On the one hand, we have created the facebook and twitter profiles, and we administrate the presence of MAPSI there. Followers of MAPSI can read about job openings, events and reading suggestions on different topics in https://www.facebook.com/mapsiproject. We have 107 followers, from which about 75% come from the three countries involved in the project (Estonia, Spain and Finland, in order of number of followers), with a 25% representation of followers from other countries (UK, Lithuania, Norway, Austria, Belgium, Ukraine and Brazil). The twitter profile has been recently created and readers can find our own tweets plus retweets of news and reflections that we consider that have an arts+social impact approach. We have just 12 followers

(this includes the profile administrator) so, please, follow us!

Hopefully, our brand new website will be a very good way to let people now about our project and to encourage them to follow the more dynamic and fresh updates of information in our social network profiles.

On the other hand, we believe that a great way of letting people know about the progress of MAPSI is to participate in brokerage events and in the meetings of other research and professional groups. During these months, we have contacted with some European joint projects and we are collaborating with the Spanish Ministry of Culture to have some training session on how to assess the impact of cultural projects. We will keep you informed about our progress. For the professional target audience, we have contacted national and international networks of cultural managers, and we are eager to involve them in the design of joint activities.

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