ERASMUS Project 2022-2025
Project EduSTA focuses on re- and upskilling VET teachers and Teacher Educators and building a community: “Academy of Educators for Sustainable Future”.
I am so excited to be representing the University of Gothenburg as Project Manager for an International Project titled Educators for a Sustainable Future or EduSTA.
The project brings together five teacher education institutions around Europe (Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the Czech Republic) to develop a close network with a strong commitment to educating teachers who are willing, able, and competent to transform educational practices and policy to meet the sustainability challenges and ready to combine innovative approaches to use digitalization in teaching and learning.
Teachers’ capabilities to act as active change-makers in the ecological transition and to educate citizens and the workforce to meet future challenges is key to a profound transformation in the green transition. Teachers’ sustainability competencies have been researched widely but a gap remains between research and the actual work of teachers. There is a need to operationalize sustainability competencies: to describe the direct links with everyday tasks such as curriculum development, pedagogical design, and assessment. Thus, the aim of the project is to respond to the urgent need for a sustainably competent workforce focusing on re-and upskilling VET teachers. Together with our colleagues from Higher Education Institutions in Finland, Holland, Spain, and the Czech Republic, the purpose is to collaboratively create open digital badge-driven learning pathways on teachers’ sustainability competencies supported with multimodal learning modules.
The Institutions involved in the project are,
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland,
- Hanzehogeschool Groningen (Hanze), Holland,
- University of Girona (UdG), Spain
- The Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), Czechoslovakia
- Department of Education and Special Education, Faculty of Education, Göteborgs Universitet, Sverige (below pic)
The below is a book free to download and developed for Work package 3 for the EduSTA Project.
To access the EduSTA Swedish website copy and paste following link to your url, https://www.gu.se/pedagogik-specialpedagogik/academy-for-sustainable-future-educators-edusta-project
EduSTA Meet, Groningen, The Netherlands, Nov 2023
Example Text
ATEE and EduSTA webinar 3 Sept at 15.30 CET
Hi TG-EduSTA team! The program for our September webinar is now ready. You can find the event news (and the registration link) both at our website and in LinkedIn. Please spread the word, thanks! Welcome to join us in EduSTA and ATEE Webinar 3 September 2024 at 15.30–17.30 CET | Academy for Sustainable Future Educators (EduSTA) | Tampere Universities (tuni.fi)
Final EduSTA seminar in Prague: Digital Open Badges Enabling Sustainable Future Educators to Become Change Makers 31 MARCH - 4 APRIL 2025
The final meet included representatives from the European Commission and the partners from the 5 countries Higher Education Institutions. The Institute of Education and Communication Prague, Czech Republic, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the Catalan University of Girona, Spain and Hanze Groningen, Netherlands as well as AERES Wageningen.
A key highlight of the event was the international webinar held on 1 April, focusing on "Digital Open Badges: Enabling Sustainable Future Educators to Become Change Makers." The webinar centered on sharing experiences from pilot initiatives across partner countries, with an emphasis on teacher development for sustainability.
In the afternoon session, panelists reflected on the project’s key learnings, challenges encountered, and the most significant outcomes. They also offered valuable insights into how these results can be implemented within each participating Higher Education Institution moving forward.
Throughout the discussions, short videos showcasing the Czech, Catalan, and Swedish pilot projects in initial teacher education were shared with webinar participants. In addition, videos from Hanze and TAMK highlighted pilots conducted within professional development programmes.
The project’s external evaluators, Dermot O’Donovan and Jan-Willem Noom, contributed their reflections as critical friends, offering independent perspectives on the project’s progress and impact.
The webinar community—comprising 136 participants including teachers, researchers, policymakers, and project managers from both EU and non-EU countries—also received messages from several distinguished guests. These included Policy Officer Cécile Le Clercq, responsible for Erasmus Teacher Academies at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC); Monika Hoang, Policy and Project Manager at the European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE); Mariagrazia Tagliabue, Head of Office at the project’s associate partner, the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE); and Sophia Queckenberg, Policy Assistant from the Green Education Team within the Schools and Multilingualism Unit at DG EAC, who delivered the closing remarks.
THE SWEDISH WEBINAR PRESENTATION
