COOP developed a blueprint for a cooperative for the cultural sector. The Expertise Centre Rits and De Pianofabriek looked for the possibilities in the COOP project to establish a “cooperative for the cultural sector”. The project checked if and how a cooperative organization form can ensure that starting technicians or artists achieve a more stable employment on a freelance basis with possibilities for continued learning and a guaranteed quality for those who use their services within the cultural sector. Or how technicians and artists that operate on their own can unite and what this can mean for themselves and the entire sector.
The project studies and delivers a blueprint for:
- The relation with the market: demand, conformity and transferability
- The position of the freelancer: statute and contract form
- The allocation of the overhead costs that each performance causes
- An effective organization model for a cooperative that could be founded
In the context of this project, 300 freelance technicians and employers from the culture sector were questioned in early 2013 to gain a better image of the working field of the freelance technician. You can consult the results below.
Results
- Peanuts, een cöoperatieve voor de culturele sector Blauwdruk, eindverslag (pdf, NL)
- Resultaten sectorbevraging freelance technici in de culturele sector (pdf, NL)
- Bijlage I: studie opleiding podiumtechnieken – 1998 (pdf, NL)
- Bijlage II: vragenlijst sectorbevraging – technici (pdf, NL)
- Bijlage III: vragenlijst sectorbevraging – opdrachtgevers (pdf, NL)
Publications
- Freelance technici: de grote enquête (STEPP magazine 8, juni 2013, pdf, NL)
Researchers
- Chris van Goethem
- Jan Ackenhausen
Timing
- 2012 – 2013
Partners
With the support of
