Category: Erasmus+ Content

Erasmus Staff Mobility: Your Practical Guide to Funding and Planning Over the last 30 years, thousands of professionals have benefited from Erasmus staff mobility programmes, forging new partnerships, exchanging methodologies and experiences, and refining work processes and skills. International collaboration brings together bright minds and transforms the European education landscape locally and globally. Expanding on… Continue reading Erasmus Staff Mobility: Your Practical Guide to Funding and Planning

Skills Training for All? An evolving global job market has seen a strong focus on professional skills training across all industries. In part to identify skills gaps and in part to refine the workforce, employers and education policy makers have doubled down on drumming home the indispensability of delivering quality training programmes. The benefits are… Continue reading Skills Training for All?

Lifelong Education and Erasmus+ The promotion of lifelong learning is a cornerstone of EU education policy, in part to address skills shortages and to raise education levels across European societies. Lifelong education does indeed, as the EU’s Erasmus+ tagline suggests, “enrich lives and open minds.” Thousands of innovative adult education initiatives exist within the Erasmus+… Continue reading Lifelong Education and Erasmus+

Testing Peer Observation Criteria at Atlantic The TOP Training Course in Job Shadowing Principals, a two-year Erasmus+ KA2 project bringing together four institutions, including EOI Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain; CPIA, Milan, Italy; CDI Univerzum Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Atlantic Centre of Education, Galway, Ireland, is in full swing. Last week, two of our ESL teachers, Aislinn Meaney… Continue reading Testing Peer Observation Criteria at Atlantic

Continuing Professional Development Courses for Teachers and Higher Ed Staff European educators prioritise career development, EU statistics prove. Across the bloc, over 90 per cent of teachers have attended continuing professional development courses (CPD) for teachers. Statistics for higher education professionals indicate similarly high participation rates. These figures point to the success of the EU’s… Continue reading Continuing Professional Development Courses for Teachers and Higher Ed Staff

Culturally Diverse Classrooms Now the Norm With thousands of people seeking out Europe for shelter and sustenance, culturally diverse classrooms are now the norm. At all education levels, you find diverse classrooms and lecture halls, tasking educators with inclusion and integration. Teachers find themselves in a place where it falls to them to provide multi-faceted… Continue reading Culturally Diverse Classrooms Now the Norm

The European Education for Climate Day 2024 28 November 2024 Under the special heading ‘Climate Resilience – Preparing for the Future’, educational communities across Europe highlight how education plays a significant role in protecting Mother Nature. The EU has recognised nearly 100 projects by awarding them with special merits. Among them, you will find an… Continue reading The European Education for Climate Day 2024

Why Is Innovation Important in Education? On 15 November, the European Education Area (EEA) is hosting the 2024 European Innovative Teaching Award ceremony. The event will celebrate the creativity of 96 educational facilities in promoting well-being in schools. The EEA launched the Innovative Teaching Award in 2021. Since then, almost 400 Erasmus+ projects have received… Continue reading Why Is Innovation Important in Education?