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The European project entitled Nurturing Creativity in Education: Restoring Power was written and coordinated by Restorative Justice for All International Institute (United Kingdom) and involves Pixel in the transnational partnership. The project was funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 – Partnerships for Creativity in the field of School Education. The project aims at equipping young people and adults with the necessary tools and competences needed to come up with creative and innovative solutions to face unprecedented risks and societal challenges and at training teachers/educators in the use of new methods and tools related to creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Funding Programme
European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 – Partnerships for Creativity in the field of School Education
Theme
Digital Education, Inclusion and Diversity
Target group
School Education
Project Reference
2020-1-UK01-KA227-SCH-094436
Date
01-03-2021 | 28-02-2023
Role of Pixel
Partner
Project Details
Project Title
Nurturing Creativity in Education
Context
Creativity is fundamental to human thought development and survival. Creativity theories are important in supporting instruction and learning, and elevation of teacher understanding and learning design. As the economic gap is widening due to the pandemic creativity can act as a key engineer for facilitating social harmony, sustainable human development, technological invention and scientific revolution.
Restoring Power will respond to this need. It will bring together 6 diverse organisations from the UK, Turkey, Norway, Malta, Italy, Ireland to form a strategic partnership that will empower schools to pursue creative education with their young people. Responding to Covid19 challenges, our project’s main objective is to deliver the Erasmus HORIZONTAL priority of Skills Development and Inclusion through creativity and the arts.
Objectives
- To equip young people and adults with the necessary tools and competences needed to come up with creative and innovative solutions to face unprecedented risks and societal challenges;
- To train teachers/educators in the use of new methods and tools related to creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship;
- To strength the profiles of the teaching professions, including teachers, school leaders and teacher educators through enhancing teachers’ professional development and supporting teachers in collaborative and innovative practices;
- To enhance skills development and competences that reinforce creativity;
- To develop students’ creativity and awareness of their own culture, as well as get familiar with the cultural diversity of Europe;
- To create and investigate an artifact, such as creating study skills resources, presentations, media messages, and cultural artifacts;
- To encouraging dynamic thinking through varying scenarios, showcasing multiple solutions, and considering mind expansive concepts.
Target Group
The target groups of the project are:
- students
- teachers
- headmasters
- trainers
Results
Transnational Project Meetings, 6 multiplier events and 3 LTT meetings will be held during 24 months period. Moreover 4 Intellectual Outputs (Guidance, MOOC, Handbook and Toolkit) will be developed and carried out during the project period.
For students and parents we will develop new learning material and tools. For teachers we will develop a new course about fostering creativity in education, which delivers a teaching approach relevant to all teaching subjects. With a new course we will improve in-service training. However, the course will be also suitable for initial education of teachers, therefore we
will also disseminate it to universities. By creativity project, we will foster new forms of learning by real life cases, virtual mobility, coaching and flipped classroom.