EDU-Creating New Customer Value through cross-border

Programme 2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

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Description (EN): EDUCRO project’s objective is to promote skilled, well-educated and connected entrepreneurs, workforce and organizations to produce new customer-oriented and internationally competent cultural products and services in the digital age.

Description (FI): EDUCRO hankkeen tavoitteena on tukea ammattitaitoista, hyvin koulutettua ja verkostoituvaa yrittäjyyttä, työvoimaa ja organisaatioita tuottamaan uusia asiakaslähtöisiä ja kansainvälisesti pärjääviä kulttuurituotteita ja -palveluita digitaaliaikakaudella.

Description (RU):

Проект EDUCRO направлен на развитие образования, квалификации и взаимодействия предпринимателей, организаций и работников для создания новых клиентоориентированных, конкурентоспособных на международном рынке культурных продуктов и услуг в эпоху цифровых технологий.

Achievements (EN):

he role of culture and tourism is hard to overemphasize. These industries bring vitality to the region, empower people, and create the drive for territory development. However, culture and tourism are extremely vulnerable sectors. They face multiple complex challenges: increasing digitalization, changing customer needs, social changes, COVID-19 restrictions, and increased digitalization. Therefore, understanding current and future trends, customer needs, innovation, sustainable value creation, and internationalization processes are the keys to business development and the creation of internationally competitive cultural products in these sectors. Besides, cross-sectoral and cross-border cooperation is an essential element for enabling innovations and new revenue models. To address these issues, the EDUCRO project idea emerged as a joint initiative of the educational partners LAB and Humak University of Applied Sciences in Finland and the Institute for Cultural Programs in Russia. The partners' vision was ambitious: to create a cross-border alliance between educational institutions, culture, tourism, and creative companies and organizations. This alliance would support learning, exchange of know-how and experiences, promote collaboration and interaction between the participants, and enable the creation of new products and services. The EDUCRO project involved companies and organizations in the culture and tourism sector from South Karelia and Uusimaa in Finland, St. Petersburg, and the Leningrad region in Russia. Over 20 companies and organizations joined the project: theatres, museums, cultural spaces, art galleries, libraries, and event producers from Finland and Russia. The project also actively collaborated with the outsourced experts to bring cutting-edge knowledge. The educational events of the EDUCRO project were open to professionals from the culture and tourism field and students. Over 600 people participated in the educational events of the EDUCRO project, including 185 people face-to-face in the seminars and study visits in St. Petersburg and over 500 people in the online training programme, hackathons, and courses for students organized by Finnish partners. Networking and collaboration was essential part of the project activities.

Website: http://www.sefrcbc.fi

Delivered Outputs (EN): target value: TI Number of enterprises… 13/220 TI Number of new c-b curricula 2/6 PSI New work-life relevant courses… 2/2 PSI Exchanges 7/4 PSI Co-creation experiments 11/8 PSI Publications 5/2

Thematic information

Education and training SME and entrepreneurship

Thematic Objective: Support to education, research, technological development and innovation

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: LAB-Ammatikorkeakoulu

Address: Yliopistonkatu 36, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lab.fi

Total budget: EUR 350 254.18

Finnish University of Applied Sciences and Arts Ltd.

Name: Finnish University of Applied Sciences and Arts Ltd.

Address: Ilkantie 4, 00400 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.humak.fi

Total budget: EUR 164 600.00

St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution of Continuing Professional Education “Institute for Cultural Programs”

Name: St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution of Continuing Professional Education “Institute for Cultural Programs”

Address: Rubinstein Street 8, 191025 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.spbicp.ru

Total budget: EUR 71 518.72

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Summary

Project name (EN): EDU-Creating New Customer Value through cross-border

Project acronym: EDUCRO

Project start date: 2019-10-01

Project end date: 2022-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 586 372.90

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 309 702.68

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 48.00%

Co-financing sources:

Third-country contribution: Russia: EUR 102 600.00

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2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

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2024-01-29

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

71 / 71 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

320 / 320 (100%)

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EDU-Creating New Customer Value through cross-border

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