Our Erasmus+ Projects

Current Erasmus+ projects

You can find below a brief introduction to the projects in which our Academies are currently participating.

SWELL logo

2025 – 2028

Self-directed learning for Wellbeing of Educators & Lifelong Learners — SWELL

A partnership of 11 European organisations (universities, schools, and training centers), created an Erasmus+ Teacher Academy to train over 400 pre-service and in-service teachers in Self-Directed Learning, to improve their wellbeing and that of their students.

Key features

Outcomes

  • MOOC adapted to national contexts — in progress
  • Community of Practice (CoP) — in progress
  • Competence Framework — in progress

TREE logo

2025 – 2028

Teaching Resources for Ecological Education — TREE

This project aims to increase secondary school teachers’ understanding of environmental education by creating up-to-date resources that enhance students’ green skills, a broader approach to environmental sustainability, and civic engagement.

Key features

Outcomes

  • 4 self-paced online courses on green topics — in progress
  • 4 toolkits for student activities — in progress

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2025 – 2027

Building Respectful, Inclusive Dialogue for Genuine Engagement — BRIDGE

This project equips teachers with structured tools to facilitate dialogue on sensitive topics, fostering critical thinking, media literacy, and civic engagement in students. By integrating non-violent communication and inclusive education strategies, the project strengthens democratic values in schools.

Key features

  • Topic: Citizenship
  • Website: in progress

Outcomes

  • Self-paced online course for educators — in progress
  • Downloadable toolkit for teachers — in progress

UNITE logo

2024 – 2026

University Network for Inclusive and Technological Education — UNITE

A European University network to develop services, digital tools, and strategies to foster inclusion, digital transformation, and quality of teaching at the higher education level.

Key features

Outcomes

  • I-TEACH: 5 virtual laboratories and podcasts — in progress
  • AWARE: free self-paced awareness training
  • DONE: AI-based tools for inclusive learning — in progress
  • GUIDANCE: smart sensor room — in progress

Since 2020

Erasmus+ Accreditation project

Europass Italian Language School received an Erasmus+ Accreditation in 2020. Since then, its staff have been updating their professional skills thanks to Erasmus KA1 mobility. The 2021 KA121 project has been labelled “good practice” by Erasmus+.

Accomplished Erasmus+ projects

EUropean TEAchers on the Move — EU-TEAM
2022 – 2025

This Jean-Monnet project offers opportunities for improving teachers’ ability to explain the European Union using different engaging methodologies.

Key features

Outcomes

Learning Out Loud — LOL
2022 – 2024

A KA2 partnership that developed inclusive and innovative teaching practices inspired by Theater (Humor, Stand Up Comedy, Improvisation Theater) and Positive Psychology in Education, with a special focus on teaching foreign languages to adult learners. Website: lolearningoutloud.com

Gamified Introduction to Gamification — GIG
2022 – 2024

The project taught Dilemma-based learning (DBL) to Greek school teachers. DBL promotes learning by having students discuss and make decisions within specifically designed case studies. Europass Teacher Academy trained a group of Greek teachers from the Peloponnese region using the DiBL Platform, developed by Serious Game Interactive.

DigiTise! Digital Toolkit for 50+ Teachers
2021 – 2023

A partnership of 6 European training institutions addressed the needs of older (50+) educators to teach online and deliver appealing lessons. By creating 10 MOOC courses and a Handbook containing 45 digital exercises, the project improved digital competencies of 50+ educators. Website: digitiseproject.eu

DIGI SCHOOL
2021 – 2023

DIGI SCHOOL — a partnership of European secondary schools that provided digital content for distance and online learning in various subjects and languages. This project has been labelled “good practice” by Erasmus+.

reCREATE healthy narratives to tackle fake news
2021 – 2023

A project of Europass Academy Berlin aimed at fighting the spread of fake news about migration in Europe, raising awareness among young people of media manipulation around migrants and refugees. Erasmus+ KA227 Partnerships for Creativity.

Creativity for innovation
2021 – 2022

A partnership of European schools implementing innovative and creative methods for adult learners, including story-telling, creative writing, and the Callan Method, to improve all segments of organizational working life.

Guidelines4Training
2020 – 2022

Guidelines for international structured training providers — a 2-year partnership aiming at increasing the quality of international-level, job-related short-term professional development training courses. Labelled “good practice” by Erasmus+.

Art 4 You – A new method of working with excluded people
2020

A project of Europass Academy Berlin developing innovative methods for the professional and social education of excluded and disadvantaged people, particularly targeting educators and trainers who work with people affected by mental diseases.

Teachers – Leaders
2018 – 2021

Teachers as Leaders and Trendsetters of Changing — a 3-year partnership among European schools and training centers, promoting Teachers as Leaders and developing training courses for teachers. Partners from Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, and Turkey.

Best 4 Languages
2018 – 2020

A 2-year partnership among European language schools aimed at improving managers’ professional skills, the schools’ international presence, and the quality of language teaching. Partners from Romania, Poland, Germany, Italy, and Slovenia. The findings are presented in a handbook covering exercises for the foreign language classroom and institutional development strategies.

ICT4LWUL
2017 – 2019

Technology-based methods for teaching Less Widely Used Languages — a 2-year partnership among European language schools focused on ICT solutions and guidelines for language learning and teaching. Download the ICT4LWUL Handbook.

Griftis
2016 – 2018

“Divided we fall, together we stand: improving strategies in European schools and teacher training centers, to prevent bullying and discrimination across Europe.” A project for the exchange of best practices in school education with partners from Italy, Finland, Greece, and Spain.

MOVET
2013 – 2015

Movies For Vocational Education and Training — a Transfer of Innovation Project for testing and implementing a language teaching method based on the realization of short movies with students. Partially supported by the EU through Leonardo da Vinci funds.

PractiCAL
2011 – 2013

Practice Culture and Language — an international partnership for the exchange of ideas, information, and methods concerning the teaching of less widely used and less spoken languages of the EU. Funded by the EU through Grundtvig funds.

Cill – Creativity in Language Learning
2010 – 2012

An international partnership aiming to exchange, test, and adapt innovative and creative teaching methods for foreign languages. Funded by the EU through Leonardo da Vinci funds.

Procedimientos da Acogida
2010 – 2012

An international partnership aiming to study, compare, and improve welcoming and monitoring methods for students at risk of social exclusion. Funded by the EU through Grundtvig funds.

New Generation 50+
2009 – 2011

An international partnership investigating the learning needs of the population over 50 and developing new didactical methods. Funded by the EU through Grundtvig funds.

Learning Italian through Movie Making
2010

An innovative workshop in which participants learn Italian by writing a script, acting, filming, and editing a short film entirely in Italian. Funded by the EU through Grundtvig funds.