We devised and set up this project up as a response to the rapidly changing labour market in all our countries and the need to better equip pupils for future jobs and careers.   Raising aspirations was a key objective of the project. Our aim was to increase pupils’ technological skills and address the Erasmus priority of increasing the skills base in European countries and fighting unemployment.

The project involved making links with workplaces that specialise in technology and digital media, bringing entrepreneurs from those industries into school and taking pupils to their workplaces.  It built on a highly successful Comenius project entitled Europe’s Got Talent and involved 4 of the original Comenius participant schools (UK, Croatia, Poland and Turkey). 

For both staff and pupils, the emphasis was on the 3Cs – communication, collaboration and creativity.  Each school produced a range of different digital products linked to existing curriculum areas such as History, Geography, Literacy and Social Sciences/PSHE  (a TV advertisement, a short film, an animation and a podcast).    A variety of different frameworks were trialled during the project to assess pupils’ creativity, communication and collaboration skills.