Creanova Project

Creanova Conference 2011 was fully broadcast and recorded. All sessions are available online (except the private session related to the legal constitution of the Creanova Association).

Download the complete video: http://ehutb.ehu.es/es/video/2577.html

See the video serie: http://ehutb.ehu.es/es/serial/687.html#1698

The Creanova documentary film “Who could innovate alone?” will be released on October 7th 2011, at the Creanova Conference in Bilbao (See the programme: http://creanovanet.org/conference/programme)

This documentary film presents creative learning experiments conducted as part of Creanova project in three European countries. The experiments focus on creative learning methods which have impact on students’ capacities for innovation.

The 30 minute documentary offers a lively presentation of learning situations where creative learning methods were applied. These creative interventions include e.g. learning in untraditional places (outdoors), storytelling (by entrepreneurs), using arts as part of teaching, De Bono’s Six-Hat technique, LEGO Serious Games and learning from mistakes. The documentary focuses on both students’ and teachers’ views and experiences on the creative learning processes.

The documented Creanova-experiments took place in spring 2010 in the following countries and organisations:

• HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences/Finland
• Tknika/Spain, Basque Country
• Tangram Srl/Italy

The actual filming was realised by students of selected media schools in the different experimenting countries.

“Who could innovate alone?” was directed by Aino Suni, Tampere University of Applied Sciences/School of Arts and Media.

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CREATIVITY AND LEARNING: DESIGNING THE FUTURE

The Creanova Conference will be held in Bilbao (Spain), 7-8th October 2011. This will be the final conference for Creanova European Project and the first conference for the Creanova Association.

The first day the event will be held in Bizkaia Aretoa, the new building of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, close to Guggenheim Bilbao, and will be devoted to the most theoretical aspects.

The second day will be in the Villa de Bilbao Maritime Museum and the programme will be less formal and more practical.

SEE THE PROGRAMME

Standard Tickets: 50,00 €

Students: 25,00 €

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PechaKucha Presentations in the CREANOVA CONFERENCE

Date: October 7th

Time: 18:00h

Place: Bilbao (Bizkaia Aretoa)

Conference website: http://creanovanet.org

Format

It is a chance to present projects or experiences related to learning and creativity or innovation. We look for creative and innovative projects that have been developed in the educational field.

The presentations are based on 20 images that will be shown on screen for just 20 seconds each. The presenter will choose and select these images in advance, and the organization will configure the power point. More information about this format: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

This power point runs automatically (the presenter has no control over it) and the presenter gives his speech in parallel.  All the presentations last 6min 40sec.

Participation

If you wish to participate and present your project, your idea or experience, just send 10 lines about the project to the e-mail address below before September 15th.

Among all the proposals 10 projects will be selected, and the presenters will get instructions about how to send their images. The proposal can be sent in English, Spanish or Basque.

More info: info@creativityzentrum.com

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Creanova Project was presented on EDEN Conference - 19-22th June 2011 in this talk presented by Idoia Fernandez and Ainhoa Ezeiza:

Sharing strategies for a creative and sustainable learning: CREANOVA in the Basque Country

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Creanova Valorization meeting has been held in Bordeaux (France) on 14th June 2011. The Aquitaine Regional Council has warmly welcomed Creanova partners in the main building of the Council in Bordeaux.

The meeting was opened by Mr. Maitia, Vice-President in charge of European Affairs and the cross-border cooperation. We also had the opportunity to share Creanova Project with the Director for vocational training of the Regional Council of Aquitaine: Jean-Philippe Sautonie, the Director of The Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux: Mr François Cansell.

Sheila Zecovic, Executive Officer for European Cooperation in Aquitaine Regional Council organized a nice meeting where different valorization and explotaition strategies were discussed.

It has been a very refreshing meeting thanks to the new ideas and views from the guest participants from France.

HAAGA-HELIA and Laurea, two well-recognised Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland, together with their key partners, are organizing a conference on the new Porvoo Campus to bring together international scholars, researchers, service developers and providers, entrepreneurs, administrators, educators and students with common interest in bridging learners and developing competences for next generation service sectors.

• Development of Future Competencies, Technology in Service Sectors, Communication in Service
• Sectors, Co-creation, Innovative Methodologies and Learning Experiments, Curriculum Planning
• and Promoting Regional Innovations.

Creativity Meeting Point 2011 is the third edition of the International Forum of the Creative Industries. The aim of this encounter is to facilitate a meeting point between local creative people and the best international practices.

http://www.creativitymeetingpoint.com/ 

Creativity Meeting Point will be celebrated in Bilbao (Spain) on 22, 23 and 24th March 2011. Creanova Project will be presented on 23rd March by Ainhoa Ezeiza, coordinator for Creanova.

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On our Twitter account we are posting updated information about Creanova activities and about encounters and conferences attended by Creanova members.

You can follow us, make comments and ask questions mentioning us on Twitter @creanovaeu

You are very welcome!

Would you like to see a brief overview of Creanova Project? Are you interested in presentations and slides in different languages?

Then, follow us on Slideshare. We are uploading our presentations there. Enjoy!

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The Transnational meeting in Bolzano (Italy) was hosted by Tangram SRL and almost all Creanova partners attended this 3 day-meeting: UPV/EHU, Tknika and Creativity Zentrum (Basque Country), Haaga-Helia and Educode (Finland), Tallin University (Estonia), The University of Edinburgh (Scotland), Universal Learning Systems (Ireland) and Thifas (Germany).

 CREATIVITY, LEARNING AND INNOVATION was the summer course given in Donostia (Spain) during the Summer Courses of the Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (5th-6th of July, 2010).

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“Business Start Up” is an International Network developed with the funds of the regional Government of Tuscany. The activities the Network is working on are close related to the field of entrepreneurship. The transnational partners of the Network are the following:

• Bundesweite Gründerinnenagentur, National Agency for Women Start-ups Activities and Services (BGA), sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology, Stuttgart, Baden-Wüttemberg (Germany)
• Frauenbetriebe, an organization supporting women´s entrepreneurship, based in Frankfurt, Hessen (Germany)
• Oficina Da Inovacao, Business Innovation Centre do Minho Braga, Province of Minho, North Region (Portugal)
• TKNIKA, Institute of Innovation for Vocational Education and Training created by the Viceministry of Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning of the Basque Government, Errenteria, Gipuzkoa (Basque Country)
• Eurobic Toscana Sud, member of the group of Vivaio di Imprese of Florence, a structure that supports business start-ups.

During the days 18th and 19th of May the Network held a dissemination Conference with the heading: The Role of the Organisations promoting Business Creation for the Economic Development of the Territory The Value of Networking

All the partners had the chance to present the activities being developed in each Country connected with the entrepreneurial world.   TKNIKA took the opportunity to present CREANOVA as a project that can satisfy the needs of promoting Creativity in the Learning processes of this entrepreneurial world and at the same time presented the first concrete results of the experiment developed in the Basque Country to show that International Networking can be useful to prepare recommendations to policy makers to adopt new tools that will be useful to improve the final results of the processes in the Learning Environments.

Creativity Zentrum organizes a yearly international forum in order to share experiences related to the creative economy. The second Edition will take place next 23th, 24th and 25th of March and the keynote speakers will range from well established specialists in longtime successful firms to new entrepreneurs that have used the potential innovation to form young companies that depict the economy of the future. CREANOVA is going to attend the meeting, and Ramón Martínez de Murgia and Jesús Ibáñez will be there to present the project activities and preliminary results, related to the factors identified in creative learning process and the best practice record that the members of the consortium have undertaken in parallel

From early spring to August 2010, CREANOVA is involved in the experimentation phase and the central activity of the project will be to put into practice the ideas and hypothesis formulated during the background research phase with actual teachers and students.

The main aim is to research how the creative interventions improve the level of creativity and innovation in the trainees. The creative interventions (new tools, learning strategies and techniques) are transferred flexibly from the Best Practices identified in the first stage of the project. These are some examples of those interventions:
 

• Goal mind-map (mind-mapping)
• Autoschedule
• Success-story analysis (competence balance)
• Storytelling
• SWOT Analysis

• Networking 
• Blended learning
• Mobile learning
• Learning by Developing
• Collaborative learning spaces
• Multi user interfaces and virtual learning environments

• Workshops
• Group discussions
• Mixed groups - students groups together with entrepreneurs 

• Outdoors learning and learning in nontraditional places
• Using art - artistic methods as part of teaching and learning
• deBono’s 6 hats technique

This experimentation is being developed in learning contexts that previously were identified as Best Practices, and will be carried out in four different countries. The partners involved in conducting the experiment are Tangram (IT), Tknika (ES), Haaga-Helia (FI) and the University of Edinburgh together with the Scottish Social Services Council (UK).

The experiment is being filmed in all these countries in order to produce a documentary.

CREANOVA project had its third international meeting in Finland last 24th,25th and 26th of January. These were three days of intense work but also of rejoice for the opportunity of seeing friends again and, for those coming from southern latitudes, of astonishment in front of the spectacle of snow and ice. We were hosted by our partner Haaga-Helia in two of their sites: Helsinki-Pasila and Porvoo, a beautiful historical town not far from the capital. We had a very tight agenda due to the transition point in which we were in the project. We finished with the last details of the Technical report that summarizes the work done on the foundations of creative learning and the collection of best practices all along the countries involved in the project. The experimental phase of CREANOVA, in which real students, teachers and trainers will be involved, was therefore launched. A number of methodological tools to be used in the different countries to guide and assess the experiment were also completed, and the survey work to be done in parallel among professionals of the creative and technical industries was scheduled. Thanks to the excellent organization work done by Kitte Marttinen and Heidi-Maria Listo we had the opportunity of experience creative thinking sessions perfectly embedded in our working agenda. For instance we had an opening session with music and warming-up exercises monitored by a dance teacher, or another one under the 6 colored hats' methodology by Edward de Bono, or a discussion panel along a walk in old Porvoo town. Finally we took contact with the strategic gamble that Haaga-Helia has done with the Porvoo Campus project,. A really exciting and unforgettable meeting

EFVET is a professional association created with the support of the European Commission to promote quality and innovation in Technical and Vocational Education and Training throughout Europe. Its 2009 International Conference was held in the Ercilla Hotel of Bilbao (Spain) with more than 200 attendees. An invitation was issued for CREANOVA to present our work. Kitte Marttinen and Jesús Ibáñez were there and CREANOVA project received much attention and a warm welcome from the participants in the conference

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CREANOVA is expected to attend a National meeting  - workshop - the 2nd and 3rd of July. About 40 European projects’ managers (involved in the European programs Comenius, Erasmus, Grundtvig, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus Mundus, Tempus or study visits) will be there to try to identify and develop individual competencies linked to creativity.

Main issues adressed :

• How do European programs succeed in developing individual creativity?

What are the key-factors enabling creativity to flourish:

• risk-taking through the mobility or the involvement in a transnational project ?
• Intercultural dimension? Collaborative dimension of the project?
• Motivation to transfer some competences and knowledge to groups ?

At the very beginning of CREANOVA, when faced to the need of developing a corporate identity sign for the project, we committed to the idea of setting up a process that could stand for a banner of some of the central concepts to be studied in the project.A group of students of the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of the Basque Country have been working in this design under the direction of professor Eduardo Herrera. Now the preliminary designs have been accomplished and in the next days a selection procedure will take place to do the final choice.

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