The Third Meeting of the EEC Project was held in Prague on December 2013. The guest of the Meeting was Institute Inpro a.s., an educational, consulting and commercial organization with longtime tradition on the field of the vocational training of the labor force and consulting. AMSP, the Czech partner, organized this important project Meeting.

The principal purpose of it was to validate all the documents prepared so far for the project (Crossing and Blending document, the system of impact indicators, Camp Guide and other educational tools (Innovation Camp, BMC Model) prepared by the IDEA – University of Southern Denmark, and published on the web site www.idea-camp.eu) and to plan the most important phase: the piloting of the tools.

That’s why IDEA, the “innovation exporter” organized for the partners a simulation of the Innovation Camp: all the partners were divided in two groups and worked on the tool. In a very stimulating atmosphere, the two groups, following the Innovation Camp guidelines (www.idea-camp.eu/innovation-camp), elaborated innovative solutions to the problem/challenge presented by IDEA.

At the end of the “innovative phase” each participant was asked to work on the idea, in order to make it feasible and draft a simple business plan. Each group idea was finally pitched and presented to the “jury”, composed by the experts of IDEA. This is, in a few words, the concept of the Innovation Camp: to stimulate creativity, problem-solving capacity and to help thinking in a business related way. With this tool the entrepreneurial competence (the seventh key competence of the European Union) is promoted with an innovative model, that can be targeted to different groups.

The experimentation was very important: now all the partners are called to organize in their country a test of the Innovation Camp. Next months activity will say if Danish tools can be adapted and utilized also in target countries (Italy, Spain, Poland, Czech Republic), in order to be integrated in the educational path of partners and other institutions in Europe.