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The InnoEd project, located at http://www.innoed.is/, was funded by the EU. The InnoEd project was coordinated by the Iceland University of Education, linking together institutions from Iceland, Finland, UK and Norway.

Innoed involves children inventing new objects, redesigning things that already exist and building for change to enhance and improve the conditions of social life. It encourages children and young people to look carefully and critically at the material world that surrounds them. It teaches, through active engagement, that the material world has been made by people and can be altered, changed and improved. It develops critical thinking and practical skills in design and technology and in marketing and enterprise.

All the Innoed partners have in common the aim to set up a educational structure that promotes the pedagogical aims of Innovation Education.

Innovation Education involves teachers and other experts working with young inventors on their designs and inventions.

In other words it is an approach to education in primary and secondary schools that encourages children and young people to apply the knowledge they have acquired from all subjects in the curriculum in solving real problems. At its core is the release of children’s natural creativity and imagination. Rather than teaching the answers, it encourages a relationship between teacher and pupil that moves the child towards the discovery of their own practical solutions to real problems they have identified.