Events in the United Kingdom

Projects in the United Kingdom

A vision of the future: Creativity and innovation in the EU Lifelong Learning Programme and Youth in Action

Come and celebrate the 2009 European Year of Creativity and Innovation with us!

Why attend?

Share ideas with organisations that have used their involvement in European partnerships, placements and study visits to boost creativity and innovation in their sectors;
Hear from learners and young people about how European work and learning experiences have made them stand out from the crowd;
Speak to policymakers about lifelong learning and youth issues in your area.
Who will be there?

Representatives from:

Government and local authorities
Education institutions (schools, colleges, universities)
Not for profit, adult education, arts and youth organisations
Emergency services (fire service, police, NHS)
Businesses
Trade Unions and Chambers of Commerce
PLUS: Experience theatrical performances, interactive displays, awards and demonstrations ― all brought to you by EU Lifelong Learning Programme and Youth in Action projects.

Main sector: Society / Other sectors: Education and Training

Website of the project: http://avisionofthefuture.eventbrite.com/

 

Cornwall’s Creative Consortium

The Creative Consortium aims at offering an innovative solution to the problem of how small and micro businesses can provide much needed training, work placements and small-scale apprenticeships to talented, but disadvantaged people. For the target group, the practice specifically develops innovative and creative thinking, helping those individuals to harness their own creative potential.

 

Main sector: Arts and creative industry / Other sectors: Education/Training/Lifelong learning, Business and Entrepreneurship, Society

 

Website of the project: www.realideas.org

 

More information: project file

 

Dynamo Role Model Programme

The Dynamo Role Model Programme aims at promoting entrepreneurship as a realistic career aspiration for young people across the Wales. It provides a link between local business owners and schools, colleges and universities across the country through the Dynamo Role Model Network – one of the largest networks of entrepreneurs who regularly engage with the education sector in Europe. This interaction allows business owners to share their experiences and skills and pupils and students have the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship through the stories of people they can relate to.

 

Main sector: Business and Entrepreneurship - business creation, social enterprises / Other sectors: Education/Training/Lifelong learning, Arts and Creative Industry, Science, Research and ICT Society

 

Website of the project: www.projectdynamo.com

 

More information: project file

 

I'm An Inventor

National Schools Partnership is an agency that combines expertise in marketing and education to deliver free and useful projects and resources to schools to support them with their teaching. Our programmes are sponsored by organisations that want to engage with children and their families, and our job is to deliver effective, creative and impactful campaigns that address a wide range of social and educational issues.

Sony Pictures are releasing a new animated film in September 09 called ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’, which tells the story of an innovative inventor. To celebrate the film's launch we are creating an exciting set of free educational resources and launching a competition which will unite all 24,000 primary schools across the UK (equting to 3.6 million children) as well as across France, Italy, Spain and Germany. The project is a celebration of innovation and Science, linking to the subject of famous inventors / inventions and supporting the educational curriculum taught in school. The project aims to get children inspired by the talents and achievements of inventors of the past, and excited about Science and being inventors themselves. The project will culminate with an exciting competition, where children will be asked to develop their own innovative ideas by designing an invention to solve a problem that the world is facing.

Main sector: Education and Training / Other sectors: Society, Arts and Creative Industry

Website of the project: www.nationalschoolspartnership.com

 

Next Practice – Stimulating, Incubating, Accelerating

Next Practice is a framework used to support innovation and creativity in a number of sectors in England. These include education, local government services and within the third sector (not-forprofits). The methodology encourages networking of the key players in the field in order to develop more effective ways of designing public services in the 21st century. More specifically, it aims at ensuring that practitioners – head teachers, youth workers, those working in social care – are at the forefront of the creative process and can ensure that the service users can be fully involved in redesign so that their needs are better addressed.

 

Main sector: Public Administration / Other sectors: Education and training, Society

 

Website of the project: http://www.innovation-unit.co.uk/education-experience/next-practice/background-to-next-practice.html

 

More information: project file

 

Sankofa Project

The Sankofa Project aimed at engaging the young African Caribbean community in an assignment that would not only involve them in the journey of an artist, from creation of an artwork to its accession into a museum, but would also provide innovative and creative ways to visit museums. It also encouraged the young people to view these institutions for their significant cultural and heritage value. The project provided the participants, eight young people aged between 14 and 17, with the opportunity to work together towards the creation of an art object,inspired by the 18th century Wedgwood anti slavery medallion. The young people created the ‘Globe of Freedom’, which would then be displayed in prestigious local art galleries and community organisations as a ‘contemporary legacy’ for the commemoration of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act.

 

Main sector: Society / Other sectors: Arts and Creative Industry

 

Website of the project: www.renaissanceeastmidlands.org.uk/our_work/audience_development/sankofa_the.html

 

More information: project file

 

Watershed Media Centre

Watershed Media Centre in Bristol promotes creativity, collaboration, innovation and participation from cultural, commercial and community sectors. The building houses three cinemas, a café/bar and a suite of conference and event spaces. Watershed is a facilitator, a hub and a catalyst for creative industries offering a wide range of cultural programmes and cross-sector partnerships. Creativity, innovation and difference are the cornerstones of the Watershed brand.

 

Main sector: Arts, Creative Industry, Media / Other sectors: Education, Training and Lifelong Learning, Society, Science and ICT, Business/ Entrepreneurship

 

Websites of the project: www.watershed.co.uk, www.pmstudio.co.uk, www.dshed.net, http://www.eshed.net/

 

More information: project file

 

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