CESSIT European Course in November (25 hours)

Aims
The CESSIT course intends to:
• promote the importance of lifelong learning for adult trainers.
• improve pedagogical approaches of adult educators and the attractiveness and effectiveness of adult training.
• diminish adult educators resistance to the daily use of new pedagogical methods and tools.
By participating in the courses you will also have the opportunity to meet other European professionals interested in promoting the development of creative skills and entrepreneurial spirit among their learners

Methodology
The course in organized in 6 modules and the effective training time is 25 hours. The modules are delivered by experienced international trainers. Given the objective of the course, its target group and thematic covered; the methodology applied includes various techniques to actively involve course participants.
Besides being presented with the theoretical aspects of each topic, the participants will have a chance to “test” numerous games, pedagogical methods and interactive techniques designed to promote creative skills and entrepreneurial spirit.

Support materials
• Handouts from keynote speakers
• Hard-copy of the Guidebook for Adult Trainers and Managers
• CESSIT DVD

Language of course
• English

Certification
Certificate of attendance including description of training content and time input will be provided.

Programme (day by day)
Monday:
Welcome session and introduction of participants
Module 1: The Role of Creativity (3 hours)
Set of activities to introduce the creativity and its role in people’s life
Evaluation of the module

Tuesday:
Module 2: Tools for improving creativity at work (6 hours)
Out of the box
Mind mapping
Brainstorming
635 method
6 thinking hats
Method DO IT
Evaluation of the module

Wednesday:
Module 3: Developing creative skills (2 hours)
Inductive and deductive thinking
The use of metaphors
Associations and abstractions
Evaluation of the module
Module 4: Entrepreneurial Spirit (4 hours)
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Barriers to entrepreneurial spirit
Evaluation of the module

Thursday:
Module 5: From the idea to the result (5 hours)
Idea generation
Communication
Personal entrepreneurial spirit development plan
Evaluation of the module

Friday:
Module 6: Actions for the Future (5 hours)
How to promote creativity in educational contexts – case studies
How to promote entrepreneurial spirit in learners – case studies

Evaluation of the module
Evaluation of the course by participants / Closure
Social Program

Fee (Accommodation and meals): 550 €

Fee (Tuition and materials): 700 €
Cancellation Fee: 120 €

Cancellation rules:
In case any inconvenient may arise and avoid applicants to participate, they will notify it within at least 15 days before the beginning of the course (letter of commitment to be signed by participants). After this deadline the applicants will pay the cancellation fee

Contact
Rui Monteiro
ruimonteiro@spi.pt
Tel.: +351 22 607 64 00
Fax.: +351 22 609 91 64

More Information:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=33235

“Entrepreneurs Need Creative Thinking After the Idea”

“Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges.”

Martin Zwilling, contributor at Forbes Magazine, provides this and more comments on the importance of creative thinking, after reading Michael Michalko’s book “Creative Thinkering”.

To read the full article, please press here.

 

 

Think outside the box

Youth employment and job-friendly growth

“We must do more, in particular on growth and employment.” said the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy on the 30th of January. Gathered at the European Council to discuss the current and future situation, European leaders statted that jobs, particularly for young people is a key priority, as important as financial stability.

 

For more information click here.

Innovact Campus Awards – for young students!

“If you are a student with a creative and innovative idea for a business project, you can, with a team or individually, take part in the 10th edition of the Innovact Campus Award. The aim of this European competition is to reward new and challenging projects. Your project can either be in its design stage, in progress or already launched.”

Participate!! – All students can take part in the competition either individually or within the framework of their institution.

 

More information here.

The link between creativity and time…

An interesting perspective on the relation between creativity and time!

National Seminar – CESSIT highlighted!

“Innovation for Adult Education” was the theme of the National Seminar held the past November 23rd, in Portugal. Gathering over 50 participants, all of them having theme related professional experience, the event purpose was to present different opportunities and results from european initiatives, with a special focus on the CESSIT project.

The participants also had the chance to network and exchange experiences among them and were offered relevant products developed under CESSIT, namely the Guidelines for European Trainers and Managers.  Participants were pleased about the overall experience and feedback was positive – “Very intersting projects as a good alternative for adult education and training”. We hope to see you again in a nearby future!

 

 

Creativity e-Learning Course – it’s free!

Did you miss the oportunity to participate in the workshops on creativity and entrepreneurship? Or do you “simply” want to learn methods and techniques to develop  these skills? If you answered yes to any these questions, then we are sure the next information is for you!

The CESSIT project will be implementing  very soon, in November, a 12-hour e-Learning course focused just on creativity. And it is completely FREE!

The programme will include a brief presentation on some theoritical concepts, followed by some tools that can be used to increase creativity at work (like “out of the box”, “635 method”, etc) and then what can be used  to develop creative skills (like “inductive and deductive thinking”, “transformation”, etc).

Stay tuned! More information will be available shortly! And don’t forget to check the project website for this and other related information at www.spi.pt/cessit.

Promoting creativity and entrepreneurship…

On its quest to promote the importance of creativity and entrepreneurship, the CESSIT project has been recently presented at three different conferences. This is also a great way to present the project results and most importantly some of the techniques and methods that can be used to foster creativity and entrepreneurship.

This participations allowed the project to promote the importance of such skills with persons from different backgrounds, all directly or indirectly working in education and creativity and entrepreneurship.  We therefore invite you to take a look at the website of each of these conferences for more information:

– International Conference on New Horizons in Education 2011, Guarda (Portugal);

– 12th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, Faro (Portugal);

– International Conference on European Transnational Education 2011, Salamanca (Spain).

 

Creativity and Entrepreneurship at work in Latvia!

After several months of preparation, the CESSIT European Seminar finally took place in Riga from 14th to 16th of September. Attended by a total of 35 persons from 7 different European countries, the participants had the chance to explore different techniques and methods for promoting creativity and entreneurship skills among adult early school leavers.

During the 3-day seminar, the participants also had a chance to understand the concepts of creativity and entrepreneurship and to discuss and exchange ideas on how to improve the education of such skills in the future.

Mixing theory and pratical examples, the seminar reached its objectives by motivating the sharing of experiences between adult trainers and training managers on the importance of fostering creativity and entrepreneurship.