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This provision of information about the arts professions in Europe should, in the future, be extended to around 50 professions. However, the database on training in Europe concerns 160 professions or techniques throughout Europe. The mobility assistant provides a methodological framework and tools for supporting the conception of European careers to individuals, bodies and companies.
Set in place within the framework of the European Leonardo programme, the SMART project meets the needs expressed by training organisations, companies, social partners, consular chambers and people in training wishing to find the information and support necessary to realise a transnational mobility project for training or employment purposes, in the arts professions sectors .
Mobility in Europe in the arts professions is considered by actors within the sector as indispensable for several reasons, the main ones of which are the preservation and diffusion of certain unique techniques (azulejos in Portugal, silk work in the Como region of Italy, blown glass in Murano, leather work in Spain or certain steel work techniques in Toledo), the development or economic survival of certain professions and the preservation of heritage (for example, in Italy, the demand for qualified binding and paper restoration labour is enormous and very inadequate, and this labour is available in Europe. Similarly, France is very seriously lacking metal restorers in the architectural heritage restoration domain, of whom there are many Spain or Italy).
The partnership , comprising organisations with a regional, national or European vocation, has mobilised several thousands of potential users, training bodies in the arts professions domain, professional organises in the arts and crafts domain, bodies specialising in hosting and career guidance, in order to guarantee access to the greatest number and to initiate a network dynamic.
The partners in this project are the Society for the Promotion of Arts Professions ( SEMA ), the Permanent Assembly of Chambers of Trade ( APCM ), the European Union of Arts and Crafts and SME ( UEAPME ), the European Centre for Research and Training in Glass-making Arts ( CERFAV ), 2 Portuguese partners - the CEARTE school, the Centro de Formaçao Profissional do Artesanato and the PPART , the Programa para a Promoçao dos Oficios e das Microempresas Artesanais, an inter-ministerial body responsible for the arts profession policy in Portugal - and 2 Italian partners - the Andrea Fantoni School of Applied Arts and the Association of Artisans of Bergamo (the AAB , Associazione Artigiani Bergamo).
RARE PROJET
In collaboration with its Italian partners from the national RARE program (CNA, Naples; ECIPA; CONSORZIO OFFICINA), UNAMA and its associated German partners (Chame de métiers de Dresde), SEMA created the "companies", jobs and internships" projet in October 2006.
The scheme meets the objectives of the Equal "R.A.R.E.T.E." program, with which SEMA has been involved sinc January 2006. These objectives are to develop and favor the economic redeployment of the traditional savoir-faire that forms our professional, industrial and cultural heritage, to save jobs, anticipate discrimination and even provide new solutions for the socio-professional integration of the most disadvantaged.
This projet focuses on the creation of Eurupe-wide professional training formalized by a "European network of host countries" in the craft sector. This tool will improve interaction between job seekers and companies offering work at a European level, and facilitate the transmission of techniques, savoir-faire and slightly different professional practices between one membert state and another.