This past December, a new European project that brings together educators, researchers, and social enterprises from Spain, Estonia, Portugal, and Serbia has begun. ILLUMINE is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership (K201) project co-funded by the European Commission. The project aims to help school education teachers design more effective learning experiences for their students by making use of research-informed teaching methods that are grounded in cognitive neuroscience (science of learning) and that make use of digital technologies for education.
The project involves four intellectual outputs:
● IO1. Toolkit and Workshops for teachers
● IO2. Evidence-based Teaching Practices Handbook
● IO3. Open Community Website for Teachers
● IO4. Research Studies
As part of these outputs, case studies, lesson plans, and learning activities involving the use of evidence-based teaching practices will be created and documented in an online community website, published in a digital handbook, and shared via research publications. Project participants will work together over three years to establish a community for exploring and sharing uses of evidence-based teaching strategies – a community that is centered around the teacher generated case studies and the free to use open community website.
ILLUMINE involves six partners. Three partners are universities: Tallinn University (Estonia), University of Belgrade (Serbia), and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) – the project coordinator; two are social enterprises: Associação Kokoro (Portugal) and ArchiPLAY (Serbia); and one partner is a school: Escola Pia Sarrià-Calassanç (Spain).
The project kickoff meeting took place online, due to the current covid 19 pandemic, on the 14th of December 2020. This meeting allowed partners to get to know each other and plan the work for the upcoming year. In the near future, ILLUMINE aims to participate in face-to-face meetings between the consortium and also with European educators to share, learn and disseminate evidence-based teaching practices that are grounded in cognitive neuroscience.
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For further information, please contact the project coordinator marc.beardsley@upf.edu