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Resilience and creativity in higher education. A short introduction to theory and practices for working with the Resilience & Creativity Canvas

Author: Watolla, A., Kuper, F., Deacon, B., Henker, L., Aust, A.
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Year: 2026
Type: Other publications
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19069813

This presentation serves as a introduction to the theoretical knowledge base of the Learn-and-Do Kit to Strengthen Resilience through Creativity within Higher Education Institutions, developed at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.The Learn-and-Do Kit is designed for higher education institutions that aim to initiate a multileveled reflection process on their resilience strengths and vulnerabilities. It supports universities in exploring existing and potential creative practices that can help them strengthen resilience. This is based on an understanding of resilience as a process that goes beyond merely coping with an immediate crisis and includes anticipating crises as well as adapting afterwards. This processual perspective enables a comprehensive view of how resilience and creativity interconnect and how they can be reflected in practice.A publication by the research projects Organisational Adaptivity in the Higher Education Context (OrA) and Organisational Resilience and Creativity: Exploring the Future of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ORC). Both projects were conducted jointly by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics (CATALPA) at the FernUniversität in Hagen.

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