“Design and Creativity Development Toolkit” project will be carried out within the framework of a strategic partnership of three EU countries - Latvia, Estonia and Denmark. The main purpose of the collaboration is to strengthen the significance of creative and design thinking among adolescents.The idea and necessity for the project is rooted in recent findings about increasingly growing numbers of young people who are not employed, not currently learning or training. The term is known as NEET youth and makes up to 12,6 % of the EU population. According to research, most often this status is not chosen voluntarily. Adolescents are affected by various risk factors, including migration, financial insecurity, social and territorial exclusion, family factors and many more.When pre-interviewing teachers and educators, results showed that currently there is no specific toolkit or set of methods adapted for the age of adolescents in Latvia, which would allow them to act proactively. Adolescents lose motivation, their self-esteem decreases, and the risk of mental health problems and deviant behavior grows. While unemployment rates among young people rise, latest discoveries prize creativity as a key competency for leaders (IBM 2010 Global CEO Study), providing definitions, components and tools how to enhance the quality of life satisfaction, work with our mindset etc. Current project focuses on the development of design thinking, emphasizing spatial, visual thinking as something relatively easy for teenagers to be perceived, as well as easy to use and interpret from a methodological point of view. “Perspective NEET group” i.e. those adolescents who are most likely to be exposed to a set of preventive and proactive activities, including the use of creative and design thinking tools were chosen as the main target group.The “Design and Creative Thinking Development Toolkit” will be created as a preventive tool for adolescents in the last grades of primary school (13-15 years of age), in order to contribute to minimizing the number of NEET youth.Project goals are:To promote the development of creative thinking in the adolescent age group by using age-appropriate design thinking development tools.To promote the interest and awareness of non-formal education teachers and other specialists in the field about the specifics and significance of creative thinking by providing methodological material for further independent work with adolescents.To promote the exchange of experience and opinions between the strategic partners of the project, ensuring learning mobility activities during the project implementation.To reduce the stigma about the incompetence and competitiveness of the creative professions in the labor market by emphasizing the multidimensionality and value of creativity in the examples of the world's leading companies.Promote a set of preventive actions to reduce the quantitative and qualitative numbers of the NEET group. Project tasks are:Carry out a meta-analytical study on currently available design and creativity development tools and their characteristics in the general age group. Results of the study will help to identify and analyze the experiences in all three Member States and to identify key areas for action with the chosen adolescent target group.To organize working groups among strategic partners in order to implement the process of exchange of experience of the project member states and to develop common tasks for the creation of creativity development tools for the target audience of teenagers.To create design and creative thinking development methods (games, tasks, etc.), adapting them to the specific stage of adolescent age group.To create design and creative thinking development tools for teenagers. Make it freely available to anyone interested in the form of a website.To develop methodological material for non-formal education teachers in Latvian, Estonian, Danish and English.To ensure the sustainability of the project by implementing cross institutional cooperation between project implementers, media, local governments, educational institutions and responsible ministries.Advise stakeholders to conduct in-depth research, including longitudinal studies, to determine the role of design and creative thinking in adolescents 'developmental stages and their potential impact on adolescents' self-esteem and overall well-being.Intellectual outcomes of the project:Meta-analytical research in each partner country;Design and creative thinking development (DCTC) toolkit;Methodology for implementation of the DCTC toolkit; Web - page as a mean of communication for project results and further activities.