Hôtel de la créativité

"<< Background >>The ""Hotel de la créativité"" project has created a strong and lasting partnership between 4 organisations in France, Italy, Spain and Greece. We applied for this project to facilitate a cross-fertilisation of practices in European youth work, and to create links and solidarity between worlds at local and European level that are too often separated.Our creativity training scheme has given youth workers, trainers and project coordinators the opportunity to develop their skills. The ""creativity hotel"" has made it possible to carry out 4 key training sessions, mapping out the training programme for each participant. The aim was to stimulate meetings between European structures in order to create and develop new projects. All the elements that punctuated the course helped us to achieve our objectives, which are to drive innovation in 3 areas: - New forms of structure for youth work and the development of youth initiatives. - New projects and innovative processes for training youth workers in Europe. - Re-examination of our methods, programmes, activities and processes.<< Objectives >>Our project has been a skills accelerator which has been sustained by an individual and collective pathway.Thanks to this programme, participants are able to: - Develop personal creative skills (through exercises, workshops, routines)- Understand and overcome the obstacles to stimulating creativity (through theoretical and practical input)- Solve problems creatively (using tools and methods)- Putting idea generation tools into practice (by running workshops with their young public and having tested them themselves to generate new project ideas)- discovering and using tools to sort and select ideas.The cross-disciplinary work was based on real-life situations involving participants and partners.This was punctuated by a number of practical exercises, designed to help participants develop lasting creativity reflexes.The aim was also to demonstrate an experimental approach:There was an alternation of individual and collective practical experimentation, exchanges and theoretical input. Each partner was responsible for co-constructing the training programme for the participants.<< Implementation >>The activities we implemented to achieve our objectives were marked out by 4 training sessions: The 4 training themes were:1- vocabulary and history of creativity2- Obstacles to creativity3- Tools and group facilitation techniques for creativity.4- Creativity for future projects.There were many activities: Exercises to familiarise ourselves with the basic concepts: language research on the term ""creativity"", creating a lexical field in language, creating an Abcdaire, creating an exhibition entitled ""For me, creativity is..."". For the brakes, we tested ""trap"" activities which reveal to those who practise them the unconscious brakes on our creativity. Between theoretical input and practical implementation, the activities were participative and open to any initiative or proposal from the participants. These open spaces allowed participants to test and experiment with activities. The results were enough to make people want to set up creativity workshops at local level in each of the organisations. For training courses 3 and 4, we used different types of brainstorming and informal educational activities (conferences on creativity, visits to museums).<< Results >>At the end of the project, we produced an educational kit that summarises the course we followed, combining theoretical input with a compilation of the exercises we carried out. The kit is made up of 9 elements: a theoretical presentation booklet, a booklet on the definitions, a booklet on the activities linked to the obstacles, a pathway for the emergence of projects (with lists of the problems and obstacles to the development of projects), a bibliography, a collection of quotes on creativity and a photo diary of all the stages of the project.The results are freely available on: ""https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/ksvws/?fbclid=IwAR2Bc5_ynrphZCa1ngKJ6dZaVFkExJjNlHgC9aNV1q59n-Eegqtj3bbYLG0.Translation work is currently underway. This will amplify the impact of the project, as dissemination will enable us to broaden the group of partners and open up new perspectives.In addition, a 'standard' 4-day training module for youth workers has been produced.This will enable each structure to make proposals to local partners.An association to promote creativity among youth workers has been set up.2 strategic partnership projects have been submitted, as well as 2 youth exchanges,and 4 local Workshop on creativité with youth ( 13-30 years)"