Empowering Young People Through Arts-Based Micro-Credentials
Discover how youth arts organisations across Australia are transforming informal learning into recognised, transferable skills. This interim report shares our journey co-designing micro-credentials that validate creativity, collaboration, and leadership in real-world contexts.
Highlights
21st Century Skills
Creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication are essential for future-ready youth. Vital Arts helps young people develop and showcase these skills through arts participation.
Youth Arts in Action
From The Push’s All Ages Tour to Carclew’s Culture Beats, our partners are embedding micro-credentials into real programs that build confidence, agency and employability.
Micro-Credentials
We’re co-designing digital badges with CLOCK Your Skills to formally recognise learning in youth arts programs—making invisible skills visible to employers and educators.
Barriers & Breakthroughs
We’re tackling challenges like time constraints, assessment models, and access to ensure micro-credentials are inclusive, measurable and meaningful.
“The micro-creds may be something that offers value to the arts experience that it doesn’t currently have.”
Fraser Corfield, ATYP