The project aims to strengthen teacher education programmes across Europe, equipping student teachers with the digital readiness and capacity to empower learners’ digital competence and address digital exclusion.
Education plays a pivotal role in developing pupils’ digital competencies and facilitating inclusive digital practices. Hence, student teachers need to develop abilities to empower digital citizens and promote safe, ethically mindful digital literacy.
ENHANCE explores student teachers’ digital teaching practices in Ireland, Malta, Norway, Poland and Spain to assess how they develop pupils’ digital competencies. Sharing insights from this exploration, experiential workshops will be designed to educate student teachers on facilitating pupils’ digital competences mindful of new and emerging technologies (e.g. AI). This can promote a positive, robust, inclusive digital citizenship, empowering critical thinking and digital literacy.
Outputs
ENHANCE aims to produce extensive outputs, including comprehensive reports on each project stage for wider dissemination. Developing materials and resources for teacher educators across Europe is a pivotal output.
These outputs will impact teacher education practices at institutional, national, and European levels. Nationally, it will disseminate reports, resources, and guidelines to teacher education providers and inform policy development through stakeholder engagement at the European level
Participating institutions
OsloMet, Norway (lead)
- Prof. Bård Ketil Engen
- Prof. Tonje Hilde Giæver
- Prof. Louise Mifsud
University of Limerick, Ireland
- Prof. Oliver McGarr
- Chief Technical Officer Adrian McDonagh
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Poland
- Associate Professor Łukasz Tomczyk
- Izabela Kielar
Universita Ta Malta, Malta
- Associate Professor Josephine Milton
- Senior Lecturer Patrick Camilleri
Universitat de Valencia, Spain
- Associate Professor Héctor Hernández Gassó
- Assistant Professor Eduardo España Palop
Advisory Board
Lene Karin Wiberg
The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities, Norway
Marijana Kelentric
The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, Department of Continuing Education and Teacher Education (UDIR)
Dr Keith Johnston
School of Education, Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Ireland
Natalia Walter
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Dr Diane Vassallo
Department of Technology and Entrepreneurship Education, Faculty of Education, University of Malta
Dr Antonio Huertas Morales
Faculty of Education and Sports Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid (Spain)