TAP-TS

Responsible institution: Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (ZLSB), at Dresden University of Technology (TUD)

This Work Package addresses all activities related to the general administration, management and coordination of the project as a whole. This includes chairing a monthly Project Steering Group meeting, with representation from all project partners, and facilitating communication between partners. It also includes communication with the European Commission on financial, administrative and contractual aspects of the project. Work Package one provides internal monitoring and evaluation to the project, capturing participant numbers over the course of the project and other impact-related activities (such as publications and conferences). 

Responsible institution: Pedagogical University Vienna, Austria (PHW)

This Work Package centres on developing, piloting and publishing innovative, practice-oriented content packages for teacher training, aimed at developing primary and secondary school teachers’ competences for teaching sustainability. The final product will be seven high-quality, open and flexible learning and teaching packages (LTPs), structured into standardised ECTS modules, which can be freely adopted or adapted by teacher education institutions worldwide.

The seven titles are:

• A Sustainable Europe (Secondary Teachers)
• Sustainability and digitality (Primary Teachers)
• Sustainability & Environmental Education (Primary Teachers)
• Climate Crisis Resilience (Secondary Teachers)
• Dealing with climate disinformation (Secondary Teachers)
• Green Citizenship in/for Europe (Primary and Lower-Secondary Teachers)
• Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education (SEE) (Primary and Secondary Teachers)

Participating Institutions:

• Eummena (Belgium-Greece-Croatia)
• Pedagogical Institute of Santarém, Portugal (PIS)
• Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Cyprus (CPI)
• Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (ZLSB), TU Dresden
• Friedrich Schiller High School, Pirna (FSGP)

This work package, led by TU Dresden, consists of three components, each coordinated by one of the project partners listed above:

• Online Workshops (EUMMENA)
• Active Learning Events (PIS)
• Summer and Spring Schools (CPI and FSGP, respectively)

Responsible institution: K und R Education, Sweden (KRE)

This Work Package centres on quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation of TAP-TS. This includes convening the Pedagogical Advisory Board (PAB) a working group of pedagogical experts internal to the project, and the Pedagogical Advisory Group, a working group of ‘critical friends’ external to the project. KRE lead on the development and implementation of a monitoring and evaluation framework (a Theory of Change), monitoring and evaluation tools, and produce an annual monitoring and evaluation report which captures project achievements and areas for further development.

Responsible institution: University College Dublin, Ireland (UCD)

The purpose of this Work Package is to evaluate and apply the project results and to plan the long-term perspective of the Academy. This covers the design of internal and external communication, procedures and tools (including website and social media visibility) as well as all dissemination measures of the project activities and results. Furthermore, it includes a systematic planning of the expected results and the anticipated impact of the project beyond the project’s lifetime. The strategically targeted communication guarantees that all relevant target groups are reached and that the project has impact throughout Europe.

Following the project’s launch on June 1, 2022, five workshops were held on June 7, 8, and 9, 2022, as part of the project’s virtual kickoff event. Each workshop focused on the project’s work packages and brought the project partners together for the first time to discuss, among other things, the specific planning and implementation of project milestones, possible forms of communication within the consortium, and the design of the LTPs.

Further information on the kickoff event can be found here.

As the lead partner, the ZLSB hosted the Project Planning and Partnership Meeting from October 5 to 7, 2022. The meeting provided the project partners with an opportunity to discuss the content of the seven teaching and learning packages directly. In addition, various events were planned for 2023. Further information can be found here.

The first TAP-TS Summer School, which took place from June 26 to 30, 2023, in Larnaca, Cyprus, focused primarily on testing materials, resources, and activities that had already been developed as part of Learning and Teaching Packages 1 through 5. The event also provided opportunities to reflect on resources and activities and aimed to establish a community of educators committed to education for sustainability. In addition, the summer school offered participating teachers inspiration for approaches and practices that can facilitate the learning and teaching of sustainability. More information is available here.

The event was the second Summer School organized by the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute (CPI) as part of the TAP-TS Teacher Academy project. It brought together primary school teachers as well as teachers from all over Europe to discuss methods, strategies and practices to promote sustainability goals.

The TAP-TS Fall Academy took place from September 27 to October 1, 2024, under the theme “Beyond borders: Whole-school approaches to sustainability education for secondary-level educators,” and brought together secondary school teachers, school principals, and multipliers—as well as stakeholders in teacher education—from across Europe. The event focused on the Whole School Approach to education for sustainable development, which was illustrated—among other examples—by the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Pirna, the host of the Fall Academy, using a “mosaic principle” developed in-house. Further information can be found here.