The document discusses the European dimension of the OpenArch partnership project, which supported transnational mobility in the cultural sector and encouraged intercultural dialogue. It aimed to bring cultural sector professionals together across Europe to strengthen the feeling of being European. The project involved eleven competence-building meetings across Europe and staff exchanges in participating countries. The ultimate goal was to help museums and their networks become more professional and demonstrate the value of working on a European level to improve visitor experiences. Five years later, the document questions whether these goals were achieved.

1. About the European dimension
in OpenArch partnership
WP1 Project Management
WP3 The Dialogue with Visitors
Manel Gómez Gutiérrez
La Ciutadella Ibèrica de Calafell (CAT)
7 October 2015

2. Skimming the Grant Agreement…
• “The Project supports the trans-national mobility of people
working in the cultural sector”
• “The Project encourages intercultural dialogue”
• “To gather people working in this sector also means to make
a stronger feeling of being European”
• “OpenArch focuses on the dialogue with visitors, the
exchange of experience, joint experiments […] Eleven larger
competence-building meetings take place across Europe.
Besides that, dozens of staff exchanges, will run in all
participating countries”
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3. Skimming the Grant Agreement…
• “The ultimate goal of the OpenArch project is
therefore to help museums and their broader
network to become more professional, and to
demonstrate the value of working on a
European level for the benefit of the visitor
experience”
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4. Skimming the Grant Agreement…
• “Setting the local site and community
in a European cultural context,
understanding its role in a past
contemporary setting, making the
local globally significant”
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5. Five years later…have we
achieved these goals?
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6. Fostering intercultural dialogue
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7. Fostering intercultural dialogue
• Different countries, different realities
• Building cooperation -> better
understanding of each other
• Sharing experiences (profesional /
personal)
• Feeling of being European
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8. “The OpenArch impression”
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9. “The OpenArch impression”
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• Show EU added value in activities. “Think
OpenArch!”
• Show OpenArch to your public. Use your own
websites, in your language.
• Show EC funding. “OpenArch builds”
• Show improvements thanks to the project

10. Conclusions
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