Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe has faced the greatest threat to education and training in its modern history. Over 100 million students, teachers and school staff worldwide were affected, with many switching to digital education to continue the academic year. School closures hit countries such as Italy (4.6 million secondary students), Turkey (11.4 million), Portugal (770,000), Spain (3.3 million) and Iceland (21,100).

In response, this project aims to improve the quality of education across participating schools and to support teachers in mastering digital competences, blended learning and e-learning environments. To achieve this, Flipped Learning combined with blended learning has been adopted, integrating in-class face-to-face activities with online out-of-school learning. The Flipped Learning Model allows students to handle lower-level cognitive tasks (knowledge acquisition and understanding) before the lesson, and to focus on higher-level tasks (application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation) with peer and teacher support during the lesson, ensuring excellent alignment with Bloom’s Taxonomy.

The project is built on extensive teacher teamwork and entrepreneurship, with Learning, Teaching and Training activities (LTTs) at its core. It includes three transnational meetings: the first serves as a foundation for six short-term exchanges of teachers, where participants will explore how to tackle the challenges posed by COVID-19, raise key competences and basic skills in line with 21st-century skills (as listed by the World Economic Forum), and boost teachers’ digital competences. Through seminars and the exchange of good practices, teachers will develop solutions and maintain motivation for the upcoming LTTs. The project is directly linked to the international field, aligns all participants with the EU community, and fits well with EU educational targets and youth approaches.