CIM project aims at developing innovative teaching and learning approaches to include Creativity and Innovation Management (CIM) in HE and in practice.
This will be achieved through a self-directed learning experience at the interface of higher education and business for students coming from different sciences.
CIM competencies are hard to be acquired in frontal teaching lessons or self-learning exercises. The ideal learning contexts to acquire these competences are the informal/non-formal ones such as traineeships or mobility.
For these reasons, the CIM method focuses on a self-learning experience for students coming from different degree courses that will be developed through an internship in between the university and the company.
Only singular attempts have been made to systematically include the development of these competences in curricular or extracurricular HE courses, and the assessment of these competences requires a new competence framework system to give evidence of students’ development, to connect them to existing certification systems and to offer a European wide validation approach.
CIM will develop and pilot an approach to tackle this issue based on a long-term partnership of academia, business and educational partners and through traineeships and team work.
During their internship, students and employees will work along a project management structure and self-directed learning approach; each trainee will plan, develop and assess his/her project, which leads towards at least one of the key competences for Creativity and Innovation Management.
LEVEL5, an ICT-aided validation system, will be used to assess evidence and visualise competence developments in informal learning settings.
The University of Duisburg-Essen, one of the youngest universities in German, hosted the first partnership meeting of CIM, the 19th – 20th of February which reunited the 16 partners of CIM: 6 Universities; 1 Public Institution; 3 SMEs; 1 EU Network; 1 NGO; 3 Educational providers and 1 National Research Centre.
About the project
CIM – Promoting Creativity and Innovation Management in an innovative blended learning and validation programme at the interface between higher education (HE) and business is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme – KA2 Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices – Knowledge Alliances for Higher Education.
Partners
CIM partnership:
- Coordinator: Universitaet Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
- Deutsches Institut fuer Erwachsenenbildung eV Leibniz-Zentrum (Germany)
- Blended learning institutions cooperative (Germany)
- Q21 – Agentur fur qualifizierungs und transfermanagement gmbh (Germany)
- Joker Toerisme nV (Belgium)
- Trendhuis (Belgium)
- Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna (Italy)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
- Vilniaus Universitetas (Lithuania)
- Lietuvos Pramonininku Konfederacija (Lithuania)
- Aristotelio panepistimio thessalonikis (Greece)
- Catro (Bulgaria)
- Die Berater Unternehmensberatungs Gesellschaft mbh (Austria)
- Dublin City University (Ireland)
- Instituto Politecnico de Leiria (Portugal)
- CESIE (Italy)
For further information
Read more aboout CIM.
Contact Caterina Impastato: caterina.impastato@cesie.org.
