Open Call for Forward Looking Projects – Digital Education

Deadline: 15-Mar-23

The European Commission (EC) is calling for proposals under the Forward-Looking Projects – Digital education.

This action will aim to foster innovation, creativity and participation, as well as social entrepreneurship in different fields of education and training, within sectors or across sectors and disciplines.

Projects under Lot 1 can address different educational sectors or bridge educational sectors, and must support high quality and inclusive digital education, in line with the Digital Education Action Plan.

Goals

The goal is to support transnational cooperation projects implementing a coherent and comprehensive set of sectoral or cross-sectoral activities that either:

• foster innovation in terms of scope, ground-breaking methods and practices, and/or
• ensure a transfer of innovation (across countries, policy sectors or target groups), thus ensuring at European level a sustainable exploitation of innovative project results and/or transferability into different contexts and audiences.

Objectives

• The general objectives are as follows:
  • Innovative initiatives with a strong impact on education and training reforms in specific strategic policy areas;
  • Contributing to the strengthening of Europe’s innovation capacity by promoting innovation in education and training;
  • Creating systemic change through fostering innovation at both practice and policy-level;
  • Support forward-looking ideas focusing on key topics and priorities at EU level, with a clear potential to be mainstreamed in one or more sectors;
  • As fully innovative, ground-breaking educational methods and practices and/or transfer of innovation: ensuring at EU level a sustainable exploitation of innovative project results and/or transferability into different contexts and audiences.
• The specific objectives include:
  • Identifying, developing, testing and/or assessing innovative approaches that have the potential to be mainstreamed in order to improve education and training systems and improve the effectiveness of policies and practices in the field of education and training;
  • Launching pilot actions to test solutions to present and future challenges with a view to kick-starting sustainable and systemic impact;
  • Supporting transnational cooperation and mutual learning on forward-looking issues amongst key stakeholders and empowering them to develop innovative solutions and promote the transfer of those solutions in new settings, including capacity-building of relevant stakeholders.

Priority Areas

Proposals under this Lot should address one of the following three priorities:

• Priority 1: Education technology (edTech): scaling up of EU-based solutions through cooperation and quality assurance;
• Priority 2: Effective pedagogical approaches on informatics for primary and secondary level of education;
• Priority 3: Teacher training and curriculum development in tackling disinformation and promoting digital literacy.

Duration: For Lot 1 projects should normally last between 24 and 48 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).

Eligibility Criteria

• The consortium must include at least 3 applicants (coordinator and full partners) from a minimum of 3 EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
• Affiliated entities do not count towards the minimum eligibility criteria for the consortium composition.
• The consortium must include at least one public authority at national or regional level (e.g. Ministries of Innovation, Education, Labour or Economy, qualification or quality assurance authorities etc ), from an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme, as applicant (coordinator or full partner).
• Under Priority 1 (EdTech), the consortium must include at least one EdTech company from an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme, as applicant (coordinator or full partner).

For more information, visit European Commission.