Many cultural sector employees work outside big cities and increased digital skills and knowledge in design-thinking are pivotal for them in reaching a bigger number of audience and clientele. Also, many cultural sector employees are already older and may lack necessary digital skills to succeed in today’s work environment. Thus, the project also aims at increased equality and inclusion, offering cultural workers better opportunities despite their age, gender, or location (or other impacting factors, like physical disabilities). Furthermore, according to the “Survey of the South Estonia Cultural Organizers” conducted in 2020, cultural organizers found it difficult to create and maintain partnerships both within and between different sectors (both on national and international level.) To illustrate this, 40% of the respondents found the cooperation with local businesses to be very wear or non-existent and 26% found same for the cooperation with social sector. Also, 46% of respondents had not taken part in any international projects during the last 3 years.
