What do we do?

The Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills -TRENDSS Project was brought to life as a prompt response to the digital shift in educational paradigms generated by the pandemic. The 2-year-long project is funded by ERASMUS.

The transnational consortium of the TRENDSS project consists of 6 partner organizations from Hungary, Poland, Greece, Croatia, Romania and Georgia, and they are all experienced actors in adult education (trainers, coaches, mentors, teacher trainers, professors, youth workers training young adults and support staff).
The members of the consortium have already established practices of working both face-to-face and online to exchange good practices, to experiment and support each other as a community.

The novelty of the TRENDSS project lies in its integrated approach of recognizing the need for different pedagogical approaches in the digital era and in instantly responding to the current issues in the educational paradigm shift by focusing on an area of its members’ expertise: soft skill development.

Our innovation project consists of 6 intellectual outputs:

1. “Roadmap” – E-learning Course (9+1 asynchronous and interactive e-learning modules to develop soft skills for digital instruction.)
2. Methodological Guidelines – E-book (Theoretical framework describes the specific competencies and approaches of digital education.)
3. Exercises for online classes (Practical and engaging exercises, tips, activites for the digital classroom.)
4. Selection of popular software for educators (How can you leverage the engaging functions of some well-known apps?)
5. TRENDSS digital platform with FREE resources (The repository of all the intellectual output results, free resources, our contact platform, regular blog posts and news, surveys, assessment test, polls.)
6. Video Tutorials (Practical tips and tutorials on how to create engaging educational videos simply and how to overcome your camera-shyness.)

As part of our innovation project, we regularly work together online but occasionally we also have chances to meet in person when we can bring our collaboration to a higher level. We have 4 Learning Teaching Training Events in our project to share our results and good practices with each other. We also use these special opportunities to develop our innovations and explore new tools, methods, technologies, and of course to learn about other cultures as well.

In 2022 we are going to organize 2 big-scale multiplier events for digital educators where we will present our intellectual output results embedded in interactive and engaging training exercises.
Venues:
Budapest, Hungary 26th May 2022
Karditsa, Greece June 2022
Admission is free but registration is required.