Developing the Entrepreneurial Spirit at the Heart of EUPeace: Creativity at the Service of Societal Projects
Learning Objectives and Brief Outline
Abstract
Teamwork, digitalization, well-being in the workplace, and the ability to “switch” from one project to another — these are some of the key motivations of today’s generation of students.
This course aims to build on those motivations by introducing pedagogical tools drawn from the entrepreneurial approach, focusing on creativity, initiative, and collaboration.
The goal is to help students develop projects using collective intelligence — creating spaces where people from diverse academic backgrounds, levels of study, and cultures can work together effectively.
In essence, this module is a methodological resource that provides innovatie project management tools aligned with the values of the EUPeace project.
It enables students to create, invent, and implement initiatives that make them active contributors to their university and society.
Within this framework, interculturality becomes a real strength: when supported by the right methods, it fosters creativity, idea generation, and the design of projects anchored in real needs
Learning Objectives
The module is divided into four short video lectures, each addressing a specific stage of the creative and collaborative process:
- Collective Intelligence for Societal Projects: theoretical framework
- Becoming a Facilitator: roles and postures
- Leading a Creativity Protocol: from needs identification to the final deliverable
- Toolbox: examples of tools to encourage ideation and project structuring
By the end of the module, students will be able to:
- Understand the principles and benefits of collective intelligence ;
- Adopt a facilitator’s posture to guide group work effectively ;
- Apply creativity protocols to structure ideas and develop concrete solutions ;
- Use practical tools to ideate, plan, and implement impactful projects.
Contributor
Dr. Valentin Moulin, University of Limoges, valentin.moulin@unilim.fr
Field of expertise: Semiotics
Prof. Cécile McLaughlin, University of Limoges, cecile.mc-laughlin@unilim.fr
Field of expertise: Literature
