Taking into account the specificities of each partner country regarding the Cultural and Creative Sectors, it is of crucial importance to have a continued support from a group of key stakeholder institutions that helps in providing guidance towards the implementation of the goals of the project. As such, a National Focus Group (composed of several key national stakeholders from the Cultural and Creative Sectors at national and European levels) was established by the partners with sector-specific expertise in each partner country.

National Focus Groups from each partner country contributed to the project evaluation, review and curricula development, thus, providing significant advice on the content of the ArtS training programme and other project activities.