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"The project responds to the needs of the Education Development Strategy in Serbia until 2020, which emphasizes the development of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship of individuals as one of the most important functions of secondary vocational education, which is also one of the strategic goals of the Copenhagen process. Secondary vocational schools educate students for certain occupations in line with the labor market needs. However, there is a clear lack of vacant jobs on the market that will not be resolved in the near future, which is why there is a high percentage of unemployment, especially of young people, in Serbia, Croatia and Italy. The activities of the proposed project are exactly suited to these needs. On the oversaturated and competitive market response to the question of how to establish a company and conduct business does not guarantee success, because it does not offer a solution to the main problem: what products or services to offer in order to survive on the market as new entrants. Only innovative products, especially new types of services, have the potential to provide employment of new start-ups and self-employment. The above implies the necessity for teachers in secondary schools to be adequately trained to master the new skills - teach the students for the ability of creative thinking and innovative generation and evaluation of new functional ideas. The 22-month project encompasses three clusters of activities: 1) Teacher training; Running of creative workshops (for up to 1000 students); 2) Organizing an international event ""The Inspiring Creativity""; and 3) Developing and disseminating the case study; and final conference. The project has a significant focus on the creation of the Communication and Visibility Plan, with the idea of ensuring a multiplier effect of project results, both at local, national and international level. In order to ensure students' interest in acquiring these skills, the project envisages primarily teacher training and then informal learning methods for students through various attractive forms in creative workshops for which empirical data demonstrates far greater efficiency than all other formal forms of education, in particular for stimulating initiative and entrepreneurship. By making informal teams, students reinforce their self- confidence and their social communication, which is an essential prerequisite for transforming initial ideas into functional innovation. The most important priorities to be implemented using the project are: (a) development, implementation and promotion of non-formal educational methods; (b) improvement of entrepreneurial sense and competence; (c) readiness and motivation of students for individual and group creative thinking; (d) enhanced process of generating ideas among students in accordance with business and market conditions; (e) students' ability for the previous assessment of the ideas; (f) student orientation towards innovative entrepreneurship; (g) creating a case study based on completed creative workshops, and its dissemination at the local, national and international levels; (h) transnational linking of students and their joint presentation to the business community at the international event; (i) dissemination of project outputs through traditional and new media, the Internet and the Open Source Platform (eTwinning) for further free use and implementation; (j) formulating and disseminating recommendations. From the perspective of an individual student, the expected results are as follows: (a) Strengthening self-confidence - trust in their own capabilities and values; (b) release from self-censorship; (c) release from the ""Voice of Judgment"" syndrome; (d) the ability of lateral thinking; (e) the ability to think beyond standard patterns out of the box; (f) the ability to create and evaluate original and useful ideas. Participants of the project are 3 VET schools and research institute. These 4 partners are highly complementary; an artistic school that is 100% oriented towards the development of creativity of their students, and on the other side 2 VET schools that teaches entrepreneurship and business. Center Ideall successfully develop methods and tools to encourage creativity, so partners are ideal integral parts of a perfect consortium aimed at achieving relevant and high quality skills and competencies, the mutual exchange of best practices, testing different methods and the creation of even better and more effective educational method for stimulating creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship of students. By implementing the project the community gets a new quality: innovative thinking skills give new ideas that can be translated into innovation through the establishment of their own companies, reduce the pressure on the national employment services, and on the other hand increases the economic activity, the offer of new products and services and services and strengthens competitiveness on the market."
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