Education For Future – Partnership Development for a joint and sustainable International Master’s Level Program for Education Professionals Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education For Future – Partnership Development for a joint and sustainable International Master’s Level Program for Education Professionals

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 : Strategic Partnerships addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Research and innovation

Project Summary

Within the Education for the Future (E4F) project – a joint international Master’s level in-service program for teachers, school leaders and other educational specialists – has been developed, tested, evaluated, adapted and implemented. The program created a context for supporting teachers, school leaders and other educational specialists to strengthen their leadership capacities and their expertise with respect to school development and innovation.
The program is developed within a sustainable partnership between three universities and an educational authority in four different countries. The program covers 12 to 15 ECTS covering both national and joint international activities, and is integrated in Master’s programs in Estonia, the Netherlands and Switzerland and accessible for participants from all four countries.

Aim of the program is to strengthen the leadership of teachers, school leaders and other educational innovators, by focusing on the possible impact of international societal trends on schools and by studying and reflecting on differences in educational systems in different European countries. Key elements in the program that stimulate this leadership are three exchange visits focused on school visits (individual and group) and collaborative reflection and analysis. In the time between the exchange visits participants from different countries prepare national assignments that focus on school development. The results of these assignments are shared during the international exchange visits.
The program is unique by bringing together teachers, school leaders and other educational innovators as partners in innovation, by stimulating international exchange at a Master’s level, by stimulating intensive reflection about national systems and school practices, and by combining both individual professional development of the participants and school development within their schools through small-scale innovation projects at local level.

In the development of this joint Master’s level program a design approach has been used characterized by three cycles of (re)designing-running-evaluating. Through this cyclic approach, the program has been tested, evaluated, adapted and implemented, strengthening both the quality and the sustainability of the program after ending the formal project.
Additionally, the project contributed to leadership development more than 140 participants in four countries and to school improvement in their schools.
Finally the project resulted in a sustainable partnership between three universities and an educational authority based on trust, mutual recognition of expertise and shared commitment and responsibility.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 333941 Eur

Project Coordinator

REGIERUNG DES FURSTENTUMS LIECHTENSTEIN & Country: LI

Project Partners

• Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich
• STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM
• TALLINN UNIVERSITY