EDURegio: Digital Regions for Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

EDURegio: Digital Regions for 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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

EDURegio project is a strategic association among regional educational authorities and European Schoolnet aiming for a permanent network that stems from the need to:

Foster digital competences and digital citizenship at the regional level
Share good practice and networking among regional educational authorities useful for long-term exploitation, continuous improvement and scale-up.
Implement and develop Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) actions at
regional level; highlight the core objectives of DEAP by illustrating how
various regions face common challenges and assist in establishing a solid European education policy.

Our focus is to empower schools, students and teachers in using digital technologies, encouraging them to be proactive and innovative, and to implement the development of main EU Commission priorities related to digital citizenship and skills building, as well as its deployment on actions addressed to K-12 school education according to Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) at the regional level. Cooperation among regions has clear European added value: helping to solve common problems, facilitating the sharing of ideas and assets, and encouraging strategic work towards common goals.

The document Addressing brain drain: The local and regional dimension released by the Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture (SEDEC) of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) outlines digital skills as a factor leading to economic growth to avoid flight of rural population, so we expect early digital skills to lead to smoother transition from education to employment.

Digital technologies may help to create new opportunities but also generate unprecedent risks, especially focused on younger Europeans. All of them are attending compulsory education in European regions with many different levels of digital technology integration in classrooms, and regional education authorities must be involved to build digital skills. Innovation in school education depend on supportive school leadership, teacher’s preparedness, commitment and capacity, engaged educational community and coherent policy foundations for innovation-friendly learning systems and innovative school cultures, so a bottom-up approach is core in EduRegio project.

Partner regional Councils of Education and European Schoolnet expect mutual exchanges and knowledge transfer coming from strategic seminars, study visits and the educational resources generated in a joint EduHackathon (sprint-like events to co-create innovative, concrete solutions on education) to their educational communities and advisory staff. We expect also participants to transfer knowledge directly to their schools to improve the use of ICT in classrooms and teacher training systems. Learnings and recommendations will be implemented both in regional policies and schools.

Project Website

https://fcl.eun.org/edu-regio

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 137633,15 Eur

Project Coordinator

DEPARTAMENT D’EDUCACIÓ- GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI TRENTO
• CONSEJERIA DE EDUCACION DE LA JUNTA DE CASTILLA Y LEON
• GOTEBORGSREGIONENS KOMMUNALFORBUND
• Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Coimbra
• EUN PARTNERSHIP AISBL