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There remain many questions about what exactly is innovation? Is it the same everywhere? How does it work? What is the relationship between innovation, policy-making and practice? Can peer-learning be an effective tool for encouraging innovation? How can innovation be transferred and expanded on?

This Thematic Dossier seeks to answer some of those questions. It results from the reflections and discussions that took place during EUN’s Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) meeting in Barcelona on 23-24 February 2006. At the meeting, participants came up with quite a diversity of views when asked to explain what the word innovation meant as regards to their national contexts. To shed light on these differences and complex issues this thematic dossier brings together a series of articles and analyses to describe innovative projects and practices in Europe. [download PDF].


1 June 2006 I Alan McCluskey Understanding innovation in education Innovation is one of those weighty words that are eagerly bandied around in modern society. The importance of innovation can partly be seen in the fact that educational policies are expected to be innovative rather than simply appropriate. Yet for all its weight, there remain many... Full article		1 June 2006 I Anja Balanskat, Stella Kefala, Paul Gerhard What is innovation? An illustration of innovative examples across Europe During the recent EUN's Policy and Innovation Committee in Barcelona, PIC participants were asked to explain the word innovation as regards to their national contexts. In trying to shed light on this complex issue, participants selected examples of innovation and explained why they... Full article

1 June 2006 I Alan McCluskey Innovation in policy and practice If we want to talk about change in education and the relationship of that change to the introduction of technologies, we are obliged to take a closer look at the complex concepts of policy and practice and the tightly interwoven relationship between them, especially when it comes... Full article		1 June 2006 I Bert Jaap van Oel Peer learning for inspectors Within the P2P project – co-funded by DG Education and Culture of the European Commission and managed by European Schoolnet – one of the strands focused on peer reviewing by inspectorates of education, p2p-i. Full article

1 June 2006 I Mick James Transferring Innovation As we discovered at the Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) meeting in Barcelona, before we can set about transferring innovation we need to be able to find and define it. At Becta this process of discovery is undertaken by the Evidence and Evaluation directorate. Full article