Cultural training

A pillar of the UNESCO Transcultura programme is capacity building for young cultural entrepreneurs in the Caribbean, with the long-term objective of fostering the professionalisation of the cultural and creative industries sector.
Caribbean student during a course of glassmaking offered by the Caribbean Cultural Training Hub in the framework of the UNESCO Transcultura programme, funded by the EU
Last update:7 October 2024

The Transcultura programme has established a Caribbean Cultural Training Hub consisting of key cultural training institutional members across the region. Hub institutions offer face-to-face and online courses in English, French and Spanish, in all spheres of the cultural and creative industries.

Hub members include the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, the University of the Arts, the Higher Institute of Design, the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets (coordinated by the Cuban Ministry of Culture), the San Geronimo University College of Havana, the Workshop School of Havana ‘Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’ and the future Santa Clara College for Training in the Arts and Restoration Trades of Cuba and the Caribbean (coordinated by the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana), and the University of the West Indies.

The programme further builds regional instructor capacities to offer online courses.

Transcultura has also produced MOOCs to facilitate access to cultural training for an unlimited number of young people in the Caribbean (the Transcultura MOOCs are in the process of migrating to a new platform and will be available again soon).

1
Caribbean Cultural Training Hub

integrated by 7 educational institutions from Cuba and the Caribbean

20
tonnes of materials and equipment delivered

for the strengthening of capacities of Hub institutions

700
young Caribbean people

trained

43
courses

delivered

5
MOOC

produced

3
courses on literature and publishing

with renowned Cuban writer Leonardo Padura