ICEAC - Analysis of the role of Creativity and Innovation in school curricula in the EU27
Client
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Duration
08/2009 - 06/2010
Description
The objective of the study was to carry out an analysis of the role of Creativity and Innovation in school curricula. The study aimed to review if and how Member States are foreseeing Creativity and Innovation in their educational policies, to what extent they are supporting them and if practices reflect the policy priorities. In a nutshell, the study was supposed to collect evidence and analyse the present state of affairs in the 27 EU Member States on the role of, or lack of, Creativity and Innovation in school curricula and/or learning objectives, at primary and secondary level. The aim of the study was “to provide a better understanding of how Innovation and Creativity are framed within the EU Member States learning objectives and practices of education and training at primary and secondary level.” empirica was cooperating with a network of national partners and subcontractors (including organisations and individual experts) in the countries to be covered by the study, thus ensuring efficient information gathering and content analysis of the documents of relevance in these countries. The experts came from the ENIR – European Network for Information Society Research (www.enir.org), a network established by empirica in 2002. The selection of the relevant documents and the validation of the results from the content analysis was ensured through the national members of EUN - European Schoolnet, i.e. 31 European Ministries of Education from EU Member States.