From the network

• Together 4 STEM

  CSR Europe, together with its partners Amgen, IBM and Johnson & Johnson, has launched STEM@Home – a new virtual learning platform on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Under the collaborative platform Together 4 STEM, the companies share free online educational resources on a wide range of topics, spanning from biology and physics, to cybersecurity, AI and critical thinking. The material, offered in English, French, Italian and Spanish, is thought for children and young learners aged 6-20+.
  STEM skills are in high demand in the job market […]

• #EVTA4DISTANCE – VET community of best practices

  The COVID-19 health crisis in Europe and the necessary national measures taken to tackle it have caused significant disruptions to the provision of education in the recent months. To help ensure not only the continuity of training activities of its members and the general community but also to inspire them about what’s to come, EVTA has gathered a list of bests practises and interesting articles about digital tools and the future of VET under the initiative #EVTA4DISTANCE.
  Check it out!

• EDEN – Education in time of new normal

  As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic last March, universities worldwide faced the need to move all their classes to an online environment overnight, in order to ensure continuation of their teaching and learning activities. Institutions that had already ventured onto the path of online education realised this transformation much more quickly than those who were less prepared. Others made the transition more modestly, only beginning to take the first steps into online education. In a remarkable short time, courses […]

• European Basic Skills Network – Capacity Building Series

  This series of units, each of them presenting a collection of open educational resources (OER), has been designed to support European policy-makers and other stakeholders involved in the implementation of the European Commission’s Upskilling Pathways recommendation.
  Basic skills are a core element in Upskilling Pathways. The EBSN wishes to support the successful implementation of the recommendation by contributing to raising the level of knowledge of all stakeholders in EU Member States. The main target group are policy-makers in the adult learning […]

• EUA – Universities and innovation in digital learning

  EUA organised a webinar on 4 September to present the progress of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and to provide an occasion for the sector to discuss the initiative from a university perspective.
   https://youtu.be/3bqynq981Qw

• Euroclio – Media and History project

  From cinema to the web. Studying, representing and teaching European history in the digital era
  Students in Europe are exposed to history in various ways: They talking with family and friends, by watching TV and movies, by listening to music, by playing games, by following public debates. All these factors influence the way students look at history. Without critical attitudes and understanding of how history is being made, students simply echo these ideas. The fact that more and more of this […]