Teachers 4.0 Digital offers a large-scale capacity-building activity for initial training and continuous professional development of teachers and educators across Europe with a focus on Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Romania.

TARGET GROUPS

The main target audience groups of the project are:

• Staff of participating organisations: Public authorities, universities, adult education providers and European networks participating in the project

• Policymakers at local, national, regional, and European levels

• Professional and relevant stakeholders: Local, national and European stakeholders, professionals employed in NGOs, adult educators, researchers, digital literacy experts, teachers’ organisations, youth workers and volunteer organisations

• Wider society at local, national, and European levels

• Development of a comprehensive curriculum that will guide teachers and educators in the ways they may teach their students the necessary skills to thrive in the digital age.

• Design of a University course on the topic of combating disinformation and digital literacy: In addition to integrating elements of digital literacy into all initial teacher education courses, a specific course on combating disinformation, building resilience, as well as digital and information literacy will be developed as a separate course.

• Development of an e-Learning platform for the upskilling of thousands of primary and secondary school education teachers and educators that will offer the Teachers 4.0 Digital course in a blended learning format in six European languages: Bulgarian, English, Greek, Italian, Polish and Romanian.

• acquire knowledge and skills related to digital literacy,

• update their knowledge on contemporary media used by children and adolescents,

• change their attitudes towards the role, importance and future implications of contemporary media

• strengthen their commitment to promote digital literacy in their classrooms

OBJECTIVES

The project partners work together to achieve the following objectives:

IMPACT

The ultimate aim of the project is the delivery of a large-scale upskilling activity involving over 2.100 in-service teachers/educators and teachers-to-be in the countries involved to help them:

The project aims to create a wider impact by initiating a public debate with the involvement of all relevant stakeholders, contributing to a policy reform on digital literacy education at national and European levels, and providing a comprehensive capacity-building framework for teachers on issues relating to tackling disinformation and promoting digital literacy.