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Education for Climate Day 2025 - 'Learning to Prepare'
This year, the Education for Climate Day will take place online on 23 October from 09:00 – 17:00 under the theme of 'Learning to Prepare', focusing on integrating climate resilience into classrooms, curricula, and communities. Special attention will be given to the EU Preparedness Union Strategy, exploring how its principles can inform and inspire educational approaches across Europe in the face of climate change.
The programme will feature a dynamic mix of live sessions, spotlight presentations and interactive discussions. The event will showcase real-world examples of preparedness in action and explore the role of education in EU climate strategies.
📅 When? October 23, 2025 – 09:00-17:00 CET
📍 Where? Online – register now!
🧑💻 Guest experts
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Experts from EU Preparedness Union Strategy initiatives and educational practitioners across Europe.
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Real-world case studies showcasing preparedness in action.
🔗 Check out the detailed: programme.
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This initiative aims to tackle the growing trend in abusive behaviours online. It creates a coordinated EU approach that will support Member States through sharing good practices, guidance and policies.
The public consultation for the Action Plan against Cyberbullying runs until 29 September 2025 and is available in all EU languages. You can access it on the Have Your Say portal.
To help ensure the Plan meets children’s needs, protects their rights and reflects their lived experiences, we need to hear from children and young people themselves. This is why, the EU Children’s Participation Platform has recently launched an online survey (in all EU languages) for children and teens aged 12-17. It is available via the following link EU Survey on Cyberbullying 2025. Please spread the word!
Please find the ESEP September newsletter here.
Highlights of this edition:
- Podcast: how to counter gender stereotypes in STEM
- Excellence in mathematics: a boys' affair?
- Survey on cyberbullying (until September 29th)
Courses and webinars:
- Teaching EU values in the classroom (online)
- Teaching about human rights in the classroom: practical strategies and activities (webinar)
- Self-paced learning materials:
- Using debate to build critical thinking and communication skills
- Students as designers of learning spaces
- Ethical and effective practices for AI and data in education
- Nurturing thoughtful minds through collaboration and eTwinning
- Enhance numeracy skills with eTwinning projects
- Rethinking classroom smartphone use: the kaleidoscope in your pocket
- Gender gap in basic skills: what teachers can do
We have received the request of sharing this Open Call for Good Practices:
The European Commission has launched an Open Call for Good Practices on School/Culture Collaborations for Citizenship Education!
The European Commission is inviting you to share your good practice example of how schools can work with artists and cultural organisations to enhance pupils’ civic engagement, democratic attitudes and their readiness to engage in civic and democratic life through the power of participatory artistic and cultural experiences within and around schools.
If you have done important work of this kind, please tell us about it!
If you know other people who have done such work of high quality, please forward this request to them.
We are looking for inspirational examples of such work that was/is implemented:
- Within and around primary schools (upper years, age of pupils >10) and (especially) in secondary schools (ISCED 1-3), general or vocational.
- Within and around formal, non-formal and/or informal education environments.
👉Share your good practice example in this form by 31 October 2025.
👉Find out more about the Open Call for Good Practices here.
You can write in any of the EU-27 official languages. Please select your language under “Languages” section of the menu on the right-hand side of the screen.
Your contribution could make a difference! Good examples will inform and inspire policy and practice in the EU and world-wide.
A selection of good practice examples will feature in the Compendium of Best Practices that the European Commission will publish and disseminate widely.
This request is the first step in the European Union’s 2-year project that started in June 2025:
Culture and Democracy Study and Peer Learning
School/Culture Collaborations for Civic Engagement and Critical Citizenship Education - How schools, artists and cultural organisations can work together to enhance young people’s democratic attitudes and their readiness to engage in civic and democratic life.
The project will generate knowledge and concrete guidance for policy and practice on this topic.
It is an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, implemented by its contractor Visionary Analytics in cooperation with KEA European Affairs following an open Call for Tenders.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at citizeneduc@visionary.lt
Explore a curated collection of professional development resources for educators created by Erasmus+ Teacher Academy projects.
Teacher Academies are European partnerships between teacher education institutions and training providers that aim to enhance teacher education and professional development through international collaboration, mobility and innovative methods.
The materials provided on this page come from several Teacher Academy projects. This collection will be regularly updated to include new resources from ongoing and future projects in the fields of citizenship and democracy.
- Age: 8–20+ years old
- Subjects: Citizenship and democracy
- Published by: TESTEd
- Year: 2025
- Languages available: English
Access the resources here.
From their latest email:
"Our next webinar is called Data Literacy in a Digital Age and will take place on Wednesday 3 September, 15:00-16:00 CET. AI and constant data collection have transformed our view of data literacy. But are we keeping up? In this webinar, we will discuss how to build these key skills for students, teachers, parents, and pre-schoolers. Register for the webinar here. If you want to make your colleagues aware of the webinar, we invite you to share this LinkedIn post.
Then we will have the webinar 21st Century Skills – Bridging the Gap Between Education and Reality, in which we will discuss:
· Practical ways to add future-ready skills in classrooms.
· Effective methods for matching education with tech changes.
· Expert advice on building important skills for the digital age.
It will take place on Wednesday 24 September, 09:00-10:00 CET. Register here. Same thing there: if you want to spread the word, here is a LinkedIn post for that.
Finally, on the European Day of Languages, we will have another webinar, on the topic of digital language learning (sorry, no catchy title for this one). Digital language learning/teaching is interesting for several reasons: digital exchanges with native speakers is a hugely effective and cost-saving measure compared to travelling or meeting up with native speakers. On the other hand, it relies heavily on human communication, some aspects of which are difficult to transfer through a screen. In this webinar we will explore when digital tools, including AI tools, could and should be used to enhance language learning. The webinar will take place on Friday 26 of September, 12:00 – 13:00 CET. Register here."
You can also find their latest newletter here.
The ECML is an institution whose mission is to encourage excellence and innovation in language teaching and to help Europeans learn languages more efficiently.
Vision: A Europe committed to linguistic and cultural diversity, where the key role of quality language education in achieving intercultural dialogue, democratic citizenship and social cohesion is recognised and supported.
In the area of valuable resources for the ES network, we can mention the following:
- Resources for assessing the home language competences of migrant pupils
- CLIL in languages other than English - successful transitions across educational stages
- CEFR Companion Volume implementation toolbox
- Developing teacher competences for pluralistic approaches - training and reflection tools for teachers and teacher educators
- Digital citizenship through language education
- Enhancing language education in cross-border vocational education
- Young children's language learning pathways
- Mediation in teaching, learning and assessment
- Building blocks for planning language-sensitive teacher education
There are also new initiatives of the Center, each with valuable resources, such as:
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