We are ready for digital education Erasmus Project

Project Title

We are ready for digital 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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

This project called “We are ready for digital education” follows the strategy of the European commission claiming that digital technology is changing people’s lives and the EU’s digital strategy aims to make this transformation work for people and businesses and therefore the education of the 21 century should be transformed to be fit for digital Europe. This partnership consists of three secondary schools and three educational institutes from the Czech Republic, Germany and Spain – Obchodní akademie a Vyšší odborná škola Příbam, Berufsbildende Schule Idar-Oberstein, IES Profesor Antonio Muro, Vzdělávací institut středočeského kraje, Pädagogisches Ladesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz, Centro del Profesorado de Cádiz.

The objectives of this project include enhancing digital skills of teachers, compiling a digital tool manual and organising a set of methodology courses related to digital education in the following areas:

1) presentation tools ( (Microsoft, Google, Moodle)
2) apps for classroom (Padlet, Learningapps, Mentimeter, Contextminds, etc.)
3) testing tools (Google/Microsoft Forms, Quizzes, Quizlet, Kahoot, Actionbound)
4) conferencing tools (Goodle classroom, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Blizz, eTwinning)
5) GDPR and internet safety
6) 3D Print

The project will have about 4000 participants including students and teachers of involved schools, workers of educational institutes and attendants of courses organised by the institutes. During the project lifecycle, we intend to organise 3 transnational meetings and 3 LTA activities with a total of 72 mobilities. As a result of our cooperation a digital manual will be created, worksheet related to ICT will come into existence. This project will lead to sharing innovative digital practices and follows the aim of the EU Commission to support EU Member States to improve the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of national education and training systems to support the acquisition of key competences, including digital skills. In every country, there are different standard and rules about IT issues, international comparison is important as it broadens our perception of the whole problem and is in accordance with our internationalisation strategies.

Methods applied in this project include analysing needs of teachers, preparing and piloting of materials, sharing them with all project partners during transnational meeting and LTAs, experiencing them with students of participating schools and free educational institutes and finally publishing them on project web site, websites of partners and in E-twinning. This project also focuses on disadvantaged groups of students and tries to suggest methodology how to deal with them in blended learning.

The impact of this projects includes a wide range of skills and experience to be gained by all direct participants, as well as indirect participants such as parents, other teachers and professionals in the partner regions. First of all, regional cooperation among different institutions will be deepened and personal relationships between public authorities and workers in various educational fields will be developed. All project leaders will enhance the skills of management, leadership, communication, foreign languages. Associated partners including national E-twinning centres, other educational institutes in the surroundings, local schools and school funders will be acquainted with this project and the programme Erasmus+.

The long-term goal of this project is to create a strategy of use of digital technologies in the field of education, after the end of the project workers of educational institutes will encourage cross-sectorial cooperation, they will promote courses of ICT for teachers of different types of schools and cooperation of teachers on different educational levels. Activities aimed at sustainability of this project include spreading of project results through different channels. The digital manual and created worksheets will become an internal part of lessons in different subject.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 91560 Eur

Project Coordinator

Obchodni akademie a Vyssi odborna skola, Pribram I, Na Prikopech 104 & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Vzdelavaci institut Stredoceskeho kraje
• IES Profesor Antonio Muro
• Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz
• Centro del Profesorado de Cádiz
• Berufsbildende Schule Idar-Oberstein Harald Fissler Schule