Creativity Training for Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creativity Training for Europe

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Research and innovation

Project Summary

Creativity Training for Europe (CT+) is a project whose main objective was to promote the development of relevant and high-quality creative skills and competences, linked to its entrepreneurship, making it possible for low-qualified or low-skilled people with talent and creative abilities, to use their capacity in today’s environment for their professional and personal growth, while taking care of the differences in gender promoting the inclusion of women in creative and entrepreneurial sectors.

The context analysis detected an important group of low-skilled or low-qualified people with significant creative skills and significant potential for application in the market, but who had never trained that creativity, nor did they have the knowledge and skills necessary to generate and develop their own creative projects.

This was identified through 4 needs:
Need 1: Alarming unemployment rates in this target group.
Need 2: There are many adult people low-skilled or low-qualified but with a high creativity potential that need a good training to improve their creative competences.
Need 3: The lack of basic knowledge for manage a project or idea, make people distrust own capacity to entrepreneur.
Need 4: The deeply theoretical character of the “creativity education” discipline that takes place in vocational and technical schools, and normally not accessible to all collectives.

Those needs set the CT+ objectives:
Objective 1 (Need 1): Reduce unemployment levels in the target groups.
Objective 2 (Need 2): Effective strategies for Development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences.
Objective 3 (Need 3): Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among people.
Objective 4 (Need 4): Balance differences between woman and men.

CT+ project’s target has been low-skilled or low-qualified adults with high creativity potential, in particular young adult people and women (all ages). Secondarily,professionals linked to training in creative activities, trainers, teachers, coaches, social workers, and other professionals who work with this group and/or in the development of creative skills have also been included.

To achieve these objectives for this target, CT+ has produced the following Intellectual Outputs:
– IO1 European Framework of Creativity training in entrepreneurship: a framework with detailed information on the situation, lacks, needs, opportunities, requirements, characteristics and specific shortcomings of creativity training in Europe, and its development from an entrepreneurial perspective.
– IO2 European Curriculum of Creativity training in entrepreneurship: design and creation of specific content to improve the creative skills and capacities of the target and their ability to undertake their own projects based on the conclusions of the framework.
– IO3 European Methodology of Creativity training in entrepreneurship: based on the framework and curriculum conclusions, a specific creativity training methodology linked to the entrepreneurship of creative people was developed.
This IO3 was expanded due to its importance, to guarantee the potential for impact on low-qualified and low-skilled people; as well as with the aim of enabling this through trainers, human resources managers, or other interested groups. For this reason, in addition to the Methodology, an “Activity Booklet” and a “Pedagogical Activities Guide” were created.
– IO4 E-learning course of Creativity training in entrepreneurship: with the above tools, an e-Learning course was created designed to train creative people to improve their skills while thinking about developing their own projects.

In order to promote the potential of these tools, meeting its objectives, three Transnational Project Meetings and a Short-Term Learning Activity with 20 people were carried out. Local working groups were also organized with the participation of more than 125 people.

With all this, in a project severely affected by the pandemic during its second half, requiring extra effort, time and resources from partners, both in development and dissemination activities, 3000 target people have been impacted by the project and this way to develop their creativity in order to develop their own creative projects.

In addition, an on-line CT+ Community of creative people has been created, with a common space to carry out exchanges and expose their skills, experiences, offers or link their work; a source of creative talent available to the community and creative companies.
Likewise, now this target and many organizations linked to this training has several important tools so that they can design specific creativity training plans according to a field or sector, and improve people’s creativity in addition to facilitating them to develop their own projects.

These tools have been created in an open format that allows third parties to update, improve, reuse or adapt them to their needs, promoting a deep long-term utility.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 193508 Eur

Project Coordinator

Academia Postal 3 Vigo S.L. & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Lancaster and Morecambe College
• EURO-NET
• A & A Emphasys Interactive Solutions Ltd
• STICHTING AMSTERDAM EUROPEAN MOBILITY