Empowering pre- and in-service teachers to harness the potential of AI for designing creative and ethical digital education ecosystems No. 101196758 (EmpowerAId)
Implementation period: 01/04/2025 - 31/03/2028
Project manager: doc. dr. Gabrielė Stupurienė
About the Project
The EmpowerAId Academy aims to build an innovative, multistakeholder and participatory reference network of European teacher education providers who join forces to codesign a comprehensive bottom-up training pathway. Innovative training programmes on AI ethics and creative teaching approaches will be developed both for teacher trainers and pre-service and in-service teachers adapted to each trainee group profile and training needs.
These programmes will incorporate all forms of mobilities (physical, digital and blended) and support the development of AI-related digital competences from AI literacy and data reasoning to critical thinking, bias identification and digital leadership skills. The EmpowerAId ITE and CPD programmes developed, along with a variety of multimodal training resources, will be tested and validated through structured blended piloting schemes in real educational settings, resulting into valuable data and insights that will enable the integration of AIED training in formalized and standardized ITE and CPD programmes. On top of that, synergies creation with EU and international projects and initiatives, as well as national and EU policy outreach activities will contribute to the ultimate goal of the project, which is to establish over time a European partnership between ITE and CPD providers to catalyze future digital education ecosystems.
Activities
EmpowerAId Academy is comprised of 7 interlinked WPs and will be running throughout a period of 36 months. WP1 refers to the project management and coordination aspects of the project including financial and contractual administration, the quality assurance and monitoring of risks and together with WP7 which is responsible for the dissemination, communication and exploitation components of the project, span across the whole project lifetime. WP2 is linked to the research activities laying the conceptual underpinings of the EmpowerAId approach and is also the WP whereby the EmpowerAId Interactive Knowledge Hub is established. WP3 is devoted to the co-design, development and delivery of the EmpowerAId TTT programme. Within WP4, both ITE and CPD programmes are being co-created and the joint mobility scheme is being developed. Moving to the implementation and advocacy phase, WP5 is dedicated to the piloting, monitoring and evaluation processes whereby WP6 involves the co-design and introduction of scalable teacher training pathways towards national systemic adaptations.
WP1: Project management and coordination (VU)
WP2: Setting the scene: EmpowerAId's conceptualisation and Interactive Knowledge Hub (UM PEF)
WP3: EmpowerAId Train-the-Trainer Programme (VIU)
WP4: EmpowerAId ITE and CPD programmes and joint mobility scheme (VU)
WP5: Piloting, monitoring and validation activities (UH)
WP6: Policy Advocacy and Uptake Pathways (Dpeath)
WP7: Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation (Stimmuli)
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