On Tuesday, 17 September 2024, Creative Skills Europe hosted a webinar titled “Collecting and Managing Data to Enhance Knowledge and Skills in the Audiovisual and Live Performance Sectors.” As part of the Creative Skills Week 2024, the two-hour session explored how collecting and analysing data can help identify skills gaps, improve the quality of training and lifelong learning for professionals across Europe in the audiovisual and cultural sectors.
After an introduction by European Social Partners, and a presentation of the European Framework of Actions on Skills in Audiovisual and Live Performance sectors, the session dived into the practical applications of data collection, with presentations by two industry experts.
Ségolène Dupont – general delegate at the National Joint Committee for Employment and Training in the Audiovisual Sector (CPNEF AV) in France, demonstrated how socio-demographic data is used to adjust the training offer for audiovisual professionals in France. She explained how collecting data is essential to better understand the audiovisual industry, but also how it helps objectifying problems and create adequate certifications and training solutions.
Coro Bonson, coordinator at the Association of Symphonic Orchestras (AEOS) in Spain, discussed the importance of acquiring data literacy skills in the cultural sector to navigate the increasingly digital landscape, exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic. She highlighted the great potential that data analysis represents, especially when it is unexploited, and the need to train professionals in the live performance sector to analyse data at the right level, to answer to specific questions and needs.
During the webinar Creative Skills Europe officially launched the ‘Creative Pathways to Creative Careers’ campaign, a 3-month online communication action designed to highlight for a European audience the many initiatives developed at national level to promote the diverse jobs and crafts in the sectors, collect information and facilitate access to training and lifelong learning opportunities, and offer tools for professionals and organisations to better face the many contemporary social and environmental challenges.
The webinar brought together a diverse European audience from both sectors, such as training and education professionals, trade unions, theatre professionals and journalists. The webinar gathered more than 200 registrations.
Discover more about the European Framework of Actions on Skills in Audiovisual and Live Performance, as well as the new Creative Pathways to Creative Careers campaign.