The MOSAIC project: the challenge of sharing the results of unique research.

Abstract

One of the major challenges of many funded research projects is, of course, to validate and perpetuate an approach, methodologies and results, as well as trying to maintain this dynamic beyond the project itself. Some of the European funding for types of project such as those dedicated to "Centres of Vocational Excellence" requires participants to make all their results and deliverables freely available. MOSAIC (Mastering Job-Oriented Skillls in Arts and craft thanks to Centres of vocational excellence) is a European ERASMUS plus project involving seven countries and 15 main partners (universities, training centres and companies). The main aim of MOSAIC is to improve the quality of vocational training in the arts and crafts in order to meet the challenges posed by digital, environmental and socio-economic developments, by proposing to generate innovations from three angles: technical, educational and social. The complexity of MOSAIC is reflected in the very architecture of the project. By deciding to bring together seven countries - Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, France and Italy - and above all by anticipating a possible and relevant dialogue between very different partners: company directors, teachers, researchers, project managers, product designers, communication managers, technology advisers, craftsmen, designers and others, MOSAIC has banked on the possibility of fruitful collaboration, in scientific terms, between researchers and non-researchers. In this context, the question of disseminating the results of the research has taken on a new urgency. While publication in journals and participation in scientific events are obvious for researchers, they are much more complex and less obvious for non-researchers. It is in this sense that MOSAIC's main deliverable should be understood: a European Observatory of Art Professions, i.e. an online platform that will contain all the knowledge developed throughout the project in order to make all the data and deliverables produced during the project available to everyone. Conceived as part of a joint approach, this open-access structure, defined in its specifications as scalable, interactive and dynamic, has a strong desire to break away from a culture of silos where each player is in some way inward-looking. It should enable each of the project's partners to play their part in disseminating the results. It also has the ambition, through its structure, to continue to bring people together long after the end of the project.