Abstract
Creativity and innovation are crucial skills to face challenges in economy, environment and social context today, especially next decade with 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States. European Higher Education System considers STEM studies play a key role to lead the global labor market and address our economic system towards more sustainability and equality model. Innovative educational projects developed at the Universidad Politécinca de Madrid have identified lack of students skills in creativity and innovation to apply challenge based-learning and others methodologies in classrooms. Hovewer Higher Education institutions need a whole approach to include creativity in university curricula (graduate and postgraduate programs), at the same time, professors claim support to embebed innovative methodologies in their subjects. CHET Project is designed as a solid strategy aimed at developing an innovative process to modernization of Higher Education System in Europe. Step by step, the project begins by defining the learning environment, then developing creativity techniques and tools, and finally validating methodologies and processes. All this supported by free access online platform.
Highlights
The importance of creativity and innovation in addressing the economic, environmental and social crises has been recognized in Europe
From this point of view, we worked on a desing project that would provide a whole vision of learning creativity in Higher Education
Creativity definition is understood like as outcome of a process and has four main characteristics: originality, appropriateness, future orientation and problemsolving ability (EUA, 2007) CHET addresses these challenges by providing STEM Higher Education (HE) teachers, with the skills and pedagogical competences to embed innovation and creativity in their their teaching activities
Summary
The importance of creativity and innovation in addressing the economic, environmental and social crises has been recognized in Europe. Experiences have shown that using creativity techniques and innovation increase the problem-solving and innovative capacity of their students, while at the same time increasing their motivation (Rodriguez-Chueca et al, 2019) This is confirmed by “Innovating Learning: Key Elements for Developing Creative Classrooms in Europe”, a EU Joint Research Centre study (2012), which highlights that HE institutions need to emphasize the importance of creativity and innovation for modernising education, it identifies as one of the main improvement areas the training and education of HE teachers. Educational systems do not answer the demands of the labour market for professionals with innovative, problem-solving and entrepreneurial capacities When teachers finish their university degrees, they have no problems with contents they have to impart; through practice they acquire the necessary skills to became good teachers; what they neither learn at university nor through practice are the skills that make them "innovative and creative teaching professionals". The HE institutions recognise that preparing and motivating students is key and that they are part of the solution, as their teachers are pivotal in fostering and developing students creative and innovative capacities
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