In 2004, Creative Partnerships commissioned CUREE to design the Creativity Action Research Awards (CARA). This was a national programme of action research into creative learning which involved research partnerships in schools across England. The award scheme aimed to enhance understanding of how creative learning works in practice and to share that understanding across the education system. The partnerships brought together a creative professional and classroom teacher, who jointly developed a creativity project, evaluated the benefit of the project for their students’ learning and collected evidence capable of informing the practice of others.
CUREE was responsible for designing the awards programme and for the design and delivery of a series of briefing workshops for potential applicants to help them to put together proposals for successful projects.