DigiSET
The DigiSET project responds to the growing need to reshape European education in line with the Digital Education Action Plan 2021–2027 and the 2030 Digital Compass. The pandemic accelerated the awareness that teachers must be equipped with advanced digital and sustainability competences to ensure inclusive and future-oriented learning.
DigiSET aims to develop the figure of the Digitally Sustainable European Teacher, capable of integrating Artificial Intelligence, Web 3.0, and Open Educational Resources (OERs) into innovative and ethical teaching practices.
Four main needs identified
- Bridging the digital skills gap to ensure that teachers can effectively use emerging technologies and lead digital innovation in their classrooms.
- Enhancing teacher training and professional development to address shortages and guarantee equal access to high-quality, cross-border learning opportunities.
- Integrating sustainability with digital transformation to promote green competences and educate students as responsible and environmentally aware citizens.
- Promoting ethical and gender-sensitive use of AI to prevent technological bias and foster equality and inclusiveness in digital education.
Project objectives
- To formulate the training programme of the “Digitally Sustainable European Teacher” in English, aimed at providing teachers with the knowledge, skills and competences to create, use and adapt Open Educational Resources (OERs).
- To implement the technological platforms of the Community of Practice, ensuring teachers’ upskilling, engagement and knowledge retention across all levels of education and across European countries.
- To train and certify 700 teachers as Digitally Sustainable European Teachers, at least at conceptual learning phase, with 50% pre-service and 50% in-service teachers equally distributed among countries.
- To establish a structured organizational model that facilitates interoperability between different European countries, interdisciplinarity and knowledge management of acquired and developed knowledge by teachers.
- To establish the knowledge management process through which the community of practice learns from itself to develop and disseminate digital learning through OERs.
- To ensure that the project and its developed activities bring the expected and planned benefits and quality is assured through structured evaluation mechanisms.