Insights

The spring campaign focused on promoting well-being in the classroom. With engaging webinars and a curated gallery of tips, teachers explored strategies to create a supportive learning environment for themselves and their students.

In 2024, the city of Mechelen is organising a festival to celebrate the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union. eTwinning Flanders has joined forces with the Mechelen city council through the eTwinning project ‘Construct Europe 2024’ to create a connection between education and the festival.

ChatGPT and other AI tools are increasingly used in learning and teaching. This raises important questions about how teacher education should address this challenge and help future and current teachers understand and use AI tools in the classroom and beyond.

In view of the forthcoming European elections (6-9 June 2024), take a closer look at our material on citizenship education.

School education is only possible thanks to teachers. They help children develop essential skills for their future working life and become active and responsible citizens. However, most EU countries struggle to engage young teachers and to keep experienced teachers in the job, which increases the need to reinforce the attractiveness of teacher careers.

In February 2024, the European School Education Platform explored issues relating to the teaching profession and the attractiveness of teacher careers.

Are you a teacher working on digital education content or teaching informatics? Apply to join the European Commission’s new expert groups.

Digital education content (DEC) is becoming progressively more engaging, interactive and integrated across formats and platforms, but criteria for the selection, creation and use of accessible, well-designed and high-quality DEC remain a challenge in Europe.