Leadership – Intelligence – Diversity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Leadership – Intelligence – Diversity

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Alp activating leadership potential is a network of professionals who are passionate about leadership. Together with 3 partners
– The University of Malta (UOM)
– Kamaleonte (Educational organisation working with outdoor and experiental learning methods) and
– Eolas Soileir (a charity working and training vulnerable adults in society)
they explored how to best support adults in leadership development. The aim was to develop an “authentic” and “inclusive” leadership approach and a training frame taking the strength and weaknesses of each person into account.

In details the objectives of the project were
– To explore the topic of “authentic” and “inclusive” leadership taking the concepts of the “Multiple Intelligences” and the “5 mind of the future” of Howard Gardner on board
– To investigate the correlation between Multiple Intelligences and gender/cultural diversity and see how this can be included in a leadership approach
– To develop innovative tools and a training frame for leadership development, which supports authentic and inclusive leadership
– To build on the knowledge of MILD (Grundtvig Learning Partnership) and develop the concept of “Multiple Intelligences as a resource of leadership development” further with new partners
– To research on authentic and inclusive leadership, gender and cultural diversity and Multiple Intelligences in the partner countries involved

Building on a previous Grundtvig Learning Partnership, where leadership in connection with Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner) was explored, the new project went deeper added the perspective of being inclusive towards gender and cultural diversity additionally with the new concept of the “5 mind of the future” of Gardner.

The project partners developed in four project-meetings a new “authentic” and “inclusive” leadership approach including an innovative training concept and tools. The diversity of partner organisations supported innovative thinking and creative work.
In a testing period in 4 national and 2 European seminars the partners evaluated the impact on the leadership development appracoh and consolidated the concept. A paper on the new leadership approach (= handbook) was written and translated in the three main languages of the partners (German, English, Italian) and disseminated widely within their local, national and European networks and on their websites and social media plattforms. Further a book with the training methods and a Learning Log called “My Leadership Journey” for the participants of the training was developed to support their search for authentic and inclusive leadership.
The project will have an impact on the learner himself, on the partner organisations aswell as on their wider national and international networks.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52550 Eur

Project Coordinator

alp – Aktivieren von Leadership Potential & Country: AT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA TA MALTA
• A.S.D. Kamaleonte
• Eolas Soileir