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European School Education Platform

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Reports and studies regarding school education policies from both European and national levels

Big picture thinking: how to educate the whole person for an interconnected world

Global competence is not an automatic by-product of academic learning, it is something that needs to be nurtured. But how can this be done effectively? How do we design curricula, instruction, assessments, and learning environments that develop students’ global competence?
Cultural diversity
Policy development
Professional development
School leadership

A compendium of the 2021 European Innovative Teaching Award laureates

A lot of innovation takes place in schools across Europe driven by teachers and school communities. Teachers have developed new ways of integrating technologies in teaching and learning. As such, the European Innovative Teaching Award aims to recognise achievements within the Erasmus+ programme, showcasing projects that incorporate outstanding innovative teaching practices.
Pedagogy
Online learning
Language learning
Entrepreneurship
Distance learning
Digital tools

Enhancing learning through digital tools and practices: how digital technology in compulsory education can help promote inclusion

This EU comparative educational study aims to assess the actual and potential role of digital technologies in promoting access, quality, and equity in compulsory school education across Europe, along with their role in complementing and enhancing traditional forms of teaching and learning.
Special needs education
Online learning
Migrant students
Distance learning
Digital tools

DigComp 2.2: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens - with new examples of knowledge, skills and attitudes

The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, also known as DigComp, provides a common language to identify and describe the key areas of digital competence. It is an EU-wide tool to improve citizens’ digital competence, help policy-makers formulate policies that support digital competence building, and plan education and training initiatives to improve the digital competence of specific target groups. This report presents version 2.2 of the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens.
Digital tools

Input paper: A whole-school approach to learning for environmental sustainability

This expert briefing paper was drafted in support of the first meeting of the EU’s Working Group Schools in the context of education for environmental sustainability. It brings together government representatives and education stakeholders from the EU, and partner countries, to support closer collaboration on education for a green transition.
Policy development

Compendium of inspiring practices on inclusive and citizenship education

This compendium presents a comprehensive range of inspiring practices aiming to provide ideas and inspiration for policymakers and practitioners who strive to improve the inclusiveness of education and training systems across the EU. It additionally intends to contribute to developing the growing body of evidence on the importance and added value of inclusive education.
Migrant students
Cultural diversity

Inclusion of young refugees and migrants through education

The Thematic Fiche on Inclusion of young refugees and migrants through education was produced by the members of the ET 2020 Working Group on Promoting Common Values and Inclusive Education.
Well-being
Tackling early school leaving
Policy development
Migrant students
Disadvantaged learners
Cultural diversity

Education Policy Outlook 2021: shaping responsive and resilient education in a changing world

This Framework for Responsiveness and Resilience in Education Policy aims to support policymakers to balance the urgent challenge of building eco-systems that adapt in the face of disruption and change (resilience), and the important challenge of navigating the ongoing evolution from industrial to post-industrial societies and economies (responsiveness).
Policy development