Creativity for Higher Education Engineering Teachers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creativity for Higher Education Engineering Teachers

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

CHET Project aims to promote excellence in teaching and skills development for creativity and innovation in engineering HE environment in Europe:

1. NEED FOR KEY COMPETENCES ON CREATIVITY & INNOVATION for the engineering HE.
2. NEED TO REDUCE UNIVERSITY LEAVE/FAILURE on technical degrees.
3. NEED TO GENERATE A CHANGE IN UNIVERSITIES & TEACHERS

CHET aims to address the above mentioned needs by providing engineering HE, with the skills and competences to embed innovation and creativity in their their teaching activities. By providing them with these skills, they will be able to prepare their students better for the labour market and contribute to the reduction of university failure/leave. To make this happen the project will develop learning materials and content, based upon the needs of teachers and universities, delivered through the CHET e- learning environment, which will allow them to implement learner-centred learning approaches which foment creativity and innovation among their students (aged 18-25) and increase their interactive learning with teachers and peers in the school setting.
Target Public:
Therefore the CHET direct target public are:
– HE ENGINEERING TEACHERS AND/OR TEACHING STAFF (including future teachers): main users of the CHET e- learning environment, which will be developed based upon their needs.
– HE INSTITUTIONS WITH ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY FACULTIES: decisions on the adoption and take-up of new learning methods and tools are taken at the level of the education institutes, thus support of their management is needed.
Innovation:
Although there have been numerous projects funded by the former Life Long Learning programme related to creativity and innovation, the large majority of these focussed on industrial sectors (e.g. CREATIN-Creativity Techniques for Innovation in Products and Services or CREATIVE TRAINER). Those which did address the educational sector, addressed in the majority of the cases VET areas, e.g Creative Learning Communities.
CHET can be considered innovative on several levels:
• Specific focus on a subset of education professionals: (future) HE engineering teachers.
• Implement one innovative methodology for improvement the creavitity and innovation that will work on five major areas: Curricula, Assesment and support for creative pedagogies, Teacher education and professional development, ICT and digital media and Education culture and Leadership.
• Therefore; the e- learning environments’ development will be innovative in the following digital media and resources.
• Anytime-Anywhere learning.
• Relevance across curriculum subjects.
• Recognising the importance support in the home environment.
• Teacher learning needs are central.
Tackling a challenge which is present across EU countries and educational systems, is only possible on a European level, through intense cooperation of relevant players. The transnationality is vital to learn from each other experiences in how different national higher technical educational systems address the issues and to detect good practices across different countries. Knowledge from different EU regions will be combined and integrated into the Intellectual Outputs.
The consortium involves universities with engineering faculties, educational authorities and institutions and creativity, innovation and ICT experts, their different views and perspectives are exchanged, analysed and applied in both project and own activities.

Project Website

http://chetproject.eu/en/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 265576,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

EGE UNIVERSITY & Country: TR

Project Partners

• VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS
• SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET
• AVACA TECHNOLOGIES CONSULTING, INFORMATICS AE
• EOLAS S.L.
• UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID