Creative Change Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creative Change

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

CONTEXT: Given the tectonic shifts in society and work accelerated by Covid-19, adult educators face an enormous challenge: how to rapidly adjust service provision to respond to learners’ new needs. Transnational collaboration in EU-funded projects, have long been a fast-track to improving and innovating education services. Our ability to identify new solutions and work with colleagues from other sectors can make the difference in bringing real change. To this end, Creative Change seeks to learn from the creative sector.
Design thinking has emerged as a proven, more human centric approach and empiric studies have shown that project managers exposed to design thinking, “played an active role both in the problem definition phase and in synthesizing new solutions that create value for users.”

The TARGET GROUP of Creative Change are project managers and staff from adult education organizations, most of them being active educators. Estimated at 25,000 persons across Europe they need a practical way to develop new skills in the design, delivery and evaluation of AE projects with a strong digital focus, given the limitations that Covid-19 has imposed.

Working with this group, our OBJECTIVE is clear: develop the skills of adult education project staff to embrace the use of creative project methodologies, digital tools and collaborative strategies which will help them move from narrow process-oriented work to broader people-centred, impact-oriented practices.

RESULTS & ACTIVITIES: The overall result of Creative Change will be more inclusive, creative and agile EU projects in AE which better respond to the post-Covid challenges. Specifically we will produce 3 new resources that transfer creative methodologies from the cultural industries for use in AE, enabling 500 project staff to FIND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, CREATE EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL SPACES and ENSURE SUSTAINABLE CHANGE in the projects they manage.:
– IO1 The Creative Change Guide presents human-centred and impact-oriented project methodologies used in creative sector and guide participants as to why and how to apply such methodologies to adult education project design.
– IO2 Creative Change Space, is an online multimedia environment in which project managers can explore and build their skills as they use new approaches, methods and tools in three main areas i) Finding Creative Solutions ii) Creating Effective Collaboration iii) Ensuring Sustainable Change.
– IO3 Creative Change Hackathons is an innovative training design which enables project managers to set up and run hackathons with colleagues and adult learners, to better understand and collaboratively develop practical solutions to the problem they face.

We will rigorously use, test and refine the resources in collaboration with 210+ target users, to optimising their effectiveness and quality.

The project ensures strong uptake of the resources with a persuasive dissemination campaign that reaches over 6000 organisations.

IMPACT: Impact begins among our main target group of project managers and staff, who will benefit from:
– Increased knowledge of why to move from narrow process-oriented work to broader creative people-centred, impact-oriented practices.
– Greater confidence and skills in applying new approaches and using digital tools to lead, creative and ensure sustainable change.
– Ability to set up and run hackathons and other digital co-creation spaces to involve learners and educators in designing improved learning and skills development services.
This will enable AE project managers and educators to build inclusive, responsive and effective learning programmes.

At a systemic level, Creative Change will boost the capacity of the adult education sector to conceptualise, organize and deliver educational projects in ways that respond much more creatively and flexibly to the real-time needs of adult learners.

PARTNERS: The Creative Change consortium is led by DIE BERATER, a leading adult education provider from Austria, experienced EU project actor and editor of widely acknowledged transnational project management resources like the Survival Kit.

The composition of the partnership mirrors the core idea of the project: mutual learning of the adult education and creative sectors to improve the quality and creativity of EU projects in AE:
EUCEN (BE) is a non-profit, international membership organisation whose goal is to further the quality of lifelong learning across Europe..
EUEI (DK) brings in their expertise in the creation of immersive online educational environments and experience in running hackathons.
MOMENTUM (IE) bring a strong track record in train-the-trainer approaches and as managers and evaluators of Erasmus+ transnational projects.
MATERAHUB (IT) is a creative consortium that helps cultural and arts’ initiatives to grow.
PRO PROGRESSIONE (HU) is an artistic hub that helps innovative cultural initiatives and projects to emerge, using artistic and creative tools.

Project Website

http://creative-change.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 283113 Eur

Project Coordinator

DIE BERATER UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNGS GESELLSCHAFT MBH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED
• PRO PROGRESSIONE KULTURALIS NONPROFIT KOZHASZNU KFT
• European E-learning Institute
• CONSORZIO MATERAHUB INDUSTRIE CULTURALI E CREATIVE SCARL
• EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES CONTINUING EDUCATION NETWORK