Digital and Online Creativity Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital and Online Creativity Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The current COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the need for modernisation and digital transformation of education and training across Europe. While many institutions are well resourced and have considerable knowledge and experience in providing effective remote/online teaching and learning to students, others are not so fortunate. During this global crisis educators have found themselves having to adapt and learn very quickly in ‘real time’ how to plan and deliver an engaging and inclusive curriculum ‘remotely’, while simultaneously helping their students adapt to the huge change in how they acquire new knowledge and skills.

The goal of this 18-month project is to advance and reinforce the ability of teachers in vocational education and training institutions to develop and deliver effective, high quality, inclusive digital education within the creative sector and beyond.

The focus of the project is on building teacher’s capacity to develop and implement engaging, effective and transferable online, blended/distance teaching and learning strategies. The project will support teachers to acquire and develop these skills/knowledges through the delivery of practical digital skills workshops using accessible online teaching tools, and also through the sharing of new ideas, digital resources, individual expertise and good practice. It is planned that during training events/exchange of good practice meetings, guest keynote speakers will be invited to deliver masterclasses and share innovative practices, which will be delivered both face to face and ‘virtually’.

In addition, the project will also seek to develop digital pedagogical competences of participating teachers so that they can coach other teachers in their own institutions over the duration of the project and beyond. It is the projects aim that participating teachers will become ‘digital champions’ for their respective institutions and that their learning will benefit as many teachers as possible by enabling them to provide high quality inclusive online remote/blended teaching and learning to their students.

The project involves 7 partner schools GLR (Netherlands). ARTEVELDEHOGESCHOOL (Belgium) ENAC (Italy), ETIC (Portugal), GRADIA (Finland), IES (Spain), NCG (UK), and 1 associate partner school, GBS St.Galen (Switzerland). These schools have worked successfully together on previous projects and in doing so have developed effective collaborative working practices and have a proven track record of developing highly creative/innovative solutions to 21st Century challenges.

The project will provide professional development for up to 35 teachers from a variety of vocational areas. The majority of the teachers currently teach within the creative industries i.e. Audio/Visual, Photography, Graphic Communication, Interactive Media etc.

The project’s objectives are:
To develop accessible digital approaches to deliver effective methods of assessment.
The development of ICT competences of teachers to support both synchronous and asynchronous teaching.
The development of teachers coaching strategies to enable them to support other colleagues in their ‘home’ institutions.

Also, as with all our previous Erasmus projects we want to further consolidate our network of European partner schools and establish new connections between teachers from different vocational areas. Regarding tangibles, while there is no ‘intellectual output’ in this project we want to create a digital repository which will contain all results of our project in all main key areas for improvement, namely learning scenarios, theoretical background of each key area (descriptions of apps, innovative methods and approaches), video interviews of teachers’ stories of learning scenarios implementation, screen recordings, student feedback, useful links etc.
While some participating teachers are very experienced in Erasmus projects, some are newcomers to the project. They will all take part in structured training sessions relevant for the above specified key areas of improvement. With this project we want to enhance teachers’ competences in the field of online/virtual teaching methods, assessment methods, their ICT skills, their intercultural and language competences.

We expect, a real meeting will be possible in November 2021. If not, the LTT meetings will be transformed into online meetings.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89255 Eur

Project Coordinator

Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam & Country: NL

Project Partners

• ARTEVELDEHOGESCHOOL
• The Corporation of NCG
• IES PUERTA BONITA
• JYVASKYLAN KOULUTUSKUNTAYHTYMA
• ENAC ENTE NAZIONALE CANOSSIANO
• Escola Técnica de Imagem e Comunicação Aplicada