From the network

• Education for Media Literacy Basic outline of the educational concept Media in Waldorf education

  The declared aim of Waldorf education is to help children cope with the demands of modern life after completing school – and this necessarily includes the development of media literacy. At leaving school, all pupils should be able to use all kinds of media properly for their own education, and also understand exactly how media are technically structured and how they work. They should therefore develop competences regarding the use of educational media through theoretical and, above all, practical media […]

• SOLIDAR – Policy Paper on Global Citizenship Education

  Cooperation, solidarity and interdependence emerged as crucial in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the crisis not only pushed people to more solidarity, but it also revealed systemic issues in how societies are organized.
  The upcoming global challenges require a different system which implies structural change. However, the policy paper focuses only on education, and specifically on global citizenship education (GCE), which can align other sectors towards change.

• Securing an EU-UK agreement on future participation in the Erasmus+ programme: a reminder that international opportunities for students are at the heart of any association agreement

  As the EU-UK negotiations on a future relationship continue informally, it is now imperative that both the UK and the EU continue to work constructively and in the spirit of compromise to meaningfully advance discussions on the future of UK participation in the Erasmus+ programme. We welcome both the UK’s and EU’s respective mandates on their mutual desire to foster cooperation in higher, vocational and school education and are pleased to see progress made on the UK’s participation in Union […]

• European School Sport Day calls for in-person and digital events

  Schools and school sport look very different across Europe this year, so it has never been more important to find creative ways to keep children active for their physical and mental wellbeing. The 6th European School Sport Day, on 25 September, invites schools to show the world how they are adapting or re-starting their activities by planning in-person (offline) or digital (online) events for the day, or a mix of both.
  The European School Sport Day is a flagship event of the […]

• Survey ‘COVID-19: Teacher perceptions of teaching online and institutional readiness for change’

  The COVID-19 outbreak has marked a sudden shift in online teaching and I am seeking teacher input and opinions. Survey outcomes could provide significant insight into teacher beliefs regarding online education, which could inform future educational planning related to online teaching.
  Your participation in this survey will help researchers identify how teachers and institutions worldwide can be better prepared for online teaching in the future.

• eucen publishes open resources on Digital Wellbeing

  The Digital Wellbeing Educators project has now fully available an open set of resources in English and Spanish. The tools available include:
  – a compendium of innovative practices
  – a digital wellbeing education OERs and APP
  – a teachers’ digital pedagogy toolkit
  – a teachers’ digital pedagogy short course
  Download them here