Opportunity: Climate adaptation and culture training and learning set

Starting in January, Creative Carbon Scotland are developing a series of opportunities around adaptation for cultural organisations in Scotland.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt across the world, including in Scotland, but what does this mean for Scottish cultural organisations? As climate change brings more disruption, we need to be prepared as organisations to manage the risks and become more resilient to a changing climate. Creative Carbon Scotland will be delivering a series of opportunities exploring adaptation and culture, starting in January.

Online Training

The training will align with multi-year funding applications, and help organisations understand adaptation so they can build climate resilience into their workplans and long-term vision.

18 January 2pm-3pm – An introduction to climate adaptation with Sniffer.

The first session in our training series will be delivered by Sniffer. They will give an overview of climate adaptation, build an understanding of climate risk and the actions that can be taken to build resilience.

25 January 2pm-3pm – What does climate adaptation mean for culture?

Following the introduction session, the second session will focus on culture, and ask what adaptation means for cultural organisations in Scotland. We will explore the risks and what organisations need to consider when developing an adaptation plan, show examples and case studies from creative adaptation projects such as Clyde Rebuilt and share resources that can help organisations answer questions around adaptation on funding applications.

It is recommended that you join both sessions. Sign up on Eventbrite.

Action Learning Set

In February we will be launching a learning set focused on adaptation and culture.

What is a learning set?

A learning set is a group of people who meet regularly to support each other’s learning around a given topic. It aims to be collaborative, with members learning from each other and sharing approaches and ideas.

What are we proposing?

Following the training, we are developing a learning set that will take this work further, and work together to consider how we weave adaptation plans into organisational planning. Organisations will review our Cultural Adaptations toolkit by introducing it within their own organisations, and collaborate to identify how it could be improved, and how it works within their own organisation. Organisations will have a reviewed adaptation plan by the end of the learning set.

It is expected that organisations who join the learning set will firstly join the training in January. After that the first learning set session will take place on Thursday 29 February 1pm-2pm. During this first session we will lay out expectations and define the key challenges and opportunities for the learning set and adaptation and culture. We will also lay out the key outcomes around resource development, improving our cultural adaptation toolkit and exploring how organisations can develop an adaptation plan.
Outside of the session and before the next session, organisations will be asked to read through our existing resources and the cultural adaptation toolkit, note down their impressions and plan how they would deliver it within their organisation.
We will then have a session in March (planned for the week beginning 18 March), where we will collectively go through the toolkit in more detail, and establish how you would deliver it in your own organisations.
Participants will then have two months to apply the learning within their own organisations and test the toolkit themselves.
We will then meet up again in May and June to discuss our findings, experiences and learnings from the process.
Creative Carbon Scotland will publish the updated toolkit and case studies of the process on our website for all organisations to use.

This process is voluntary and free. However, joining this learning set will require you to commit to the following:

Attending the first meeting on 29 February.
Attending a further three meetings, with the exact dates to be decided by the group.
Trial the Cultural Adaptations toolkit in your organisation and develop an adaptation plan.

Due to the commitment involved in this learning set, and to encourage communication and participation from all those involved, we are aiming for this group to be made up of 5-10 participants/organisations. However, the outcomes will be shared with everyone. If it is oversubscribed we will have a selection process, to ensure a range of organisations is involved.

If you would like to join this learning set, please fill in the form by Friday 5 January, or email sarah.ohare@creativecarbonscotland.com if you have any questions.

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