At the end of the program students will be able to: - Identify characteristics of creative personality and assess the individual level of creativity. - Get familiar with the main creative skills. - Lear and apply different creativity tools. - Improve the ability to use the creative thinking approach to problem solving.

1. Introduction: What is and what is not creativity? 2. The creative personality. 3. Lateral thinking. 4. Creative skills. 5. Key principles of creativity. 6. Evaluation of the level of creativity. 7. Methods and tools for the application of creative thinking. 8. The process of problem solving: models, phases, tools and application. 9. Monitoring and control of decisions. 10. Group decision making. The consensus.

Teaching hours are distributed in accordance to the following activities: ¿ Exposition of different topics related to the program content. ¿ Exercises and team dynamics related to the content specially those reflecting operative problems together with interaction problems (such the helium stick exercise). ¿ In-group comments and evaluation of exercises, including presenter´s suggestions and practical advices. ¿ Video clips for reflection and analysis of models. ¿ Visual metaphor for solving problems in groups.