Training in cultural policy and management: international ... - Encatc

KaosPilots
Mejlgade 35
Århus 8000
Denmark
Director: Uffe Elbæk
Phone: + 45 8612 9522
Fax: + 45 8612 9470
E-mail: nik@kaospilot.dk
Web site: www.kaospilot.dk
Background, orientation and purpose
Profiles: Denmark
The KaosPilots - started in 1991 - is a 3-year Nordic education program in creative project and
business design. The aim has been to create new methods for education in an international field of
training focusing on creative project and business design.
The programme is located in the educational political arena where new concepts of competency and
education are under development - concepts where the entire life of the individual involved is central.
It is an experimental education, driven by the desire to discover new ways of acting and thinking -
new means of constructive agency in a world increasingly characterised by disorientation,
reorientation and unpredictability.
Programme(s) and qualification(s)
The KaosPilot (equal to a bachelor’s degree).
Duration
3 years.
Content
The degree takes 3 years and is divided into five sections that are built upon each other.
(1) Creation of the professional toolbox:
- Project management and understanding;
- Process management (communication techniques, conflict handling, decision taking);
- Understanding of evaluation tools;
- IT tools and IT understanding;
- Development of ideas and creativity training;
- PR and media understanding;
- Analysis and understanding of current society.
(2) Process management:
- Concept and process understanding;
- Systemic and holistic understanding of the connections between organisational culture, assignment
and the choice of roles in the assignment execution;
- Problem and context understanding;
- Contract clarification;
- Dialog-like conversations and reflection processes, including knowledge of and training in processpromoting
effects of communication;
- Coaching management and support of processes for change;
- Resistance to change;
- The role of process manager and coach; and
- Ethical problems in the consulting role;
(3) Social entrepreneurship in an intercultural context;
(4) Entrepreneurship and innovation in an intercultural context;
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