Educom+

03/09/2026

🔎 Μια εικόνα, ένα βίντεο, μια ανάρτηση… Πόσο κριτικά «διαβάζουμε» όσα συναντάμε στο διαδίκτυο;

Σας προσκαλούμε στο δωρεάν, διαδραστικό webinar:
«Κατακτώντας τον πολυτροπικό γραμματισμό: Εμβαθύνοντας στις ψηφιακές δεξιότητες και την κριτική σκέψη»

Θα εξερευνήσουμε πώς το κείμενο, η εικόνα, ο ήχος και το βίντεο συνδυάζονται για να διαμορφώσουν μηνύματα και να επηρεάσουν την αντίληψή μας.

Μαζί θα μάθουμε να:

✅ Αναλύουμε το ψηφιακό περιεχόμενο με κριτική ματιά.
✅ Αναγνωρίζουμε τεχνικές χειραγώγησης και παραπληροφόρηση.
✅ Ελέγχουμε την αξιοπιστία των πηγών.
✅ Επικοινωνούμε υπεύθυνα, αξιοποιώντας διαφορετικά μέσα έκφρασης.

📅 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2026
🕕 18:00 CET | Διάρκεια: 1 ώρα
💻 Διαδικτυακά μέσω Zoom
🎟️ Δωρεάν συμμετοχή

👉 Δήλωση συμμετοχής: https://forms.gle/n4SmeTBtqQWWvgmW9
🔗 Σύνδεσμος παρακολούθησης: https://sl1nk.com/cpv1orb
*Θα σταλούν βεβαιώσεις συμμετοχής.

Ας κάνουμε την καθημερινή μας επαφή με τα ψηφιακά μέσα πιο συνειδητή και δημιουργική!



🔎 An image, a video, a social media post… How critically do we read the messages we encounter online?

Join our free, interactive webinar:
“Mastering Multimodal Literacy: A Deep Dive into Digital Skills and Critical Thinking”

Explore how text, images, audio and video work together to shape meaning and influence our perceptions.

Together, we will learn to:

✅ Analyse digital content critically.
✅ Recognise manipulation and misinformation.
✅ Evaluate the credibility of sources.
✅ Communicate responsibly across different media and formats.

📅 29 September 2026
🕕 6:00 PM CET | Duration: 1 hour
💻 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free participation

👉 Register here: https://forms.gle/n4SmeTBtqQWWvgmW9
🔗 Join the webinar: https://sl1nk.com/cpv1orb
Certificates will be sent to attendees.

Let’s become more thoughtful readers and more responsible creators of digital content!

28/08/2026

📢 New publication

Educom+ is pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article in the *International Journal of Development Research:

“From AI Knowledge to Inclusive Practice: How SmartEd Supports Teacher Learning and Inclusive Education".
Georgia Konstantia Karagianni, Vida Šarauskienė & Ausma Šereivienė

The article analyses the three intellectual outputs of the Erasmus+ project SmartEd – AI Integration in Schools and how they support teachers' professional development in using Artificial Intelligence for more inclusive education. The findings draw on a virtual piloting across seven countries, with 206 teachers.

📖 Read the full article here:
https://journalijdr.com/ai-knowledge-inclusive-practice-how-smarted-supports-teacher-learning-and-inclusive-education

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Received 19th April, 2026 Received in revised form 19th May, 2026 Accepted 24th June, 2026 Published online 30th July, 2026

20/08/2026

🌍 Looking for an inspiring Erasmus+ training experience in Greece?

Educom+ invites teachers, school leaders, education advisers, teacher trainers, adult educators, youth workers and mentors to explore our growing range of Erasmus+ training courses in Karditsa and Lake Plastiras, Greece.

Our courses focus on current educational priorities, including:

🔹 Artificial Intelligence and digital learning
🔹 Inclusion, well-being and social-emotional learning
🔹 Leadership, intercultural education and sustainability

📅 Flexible dates are available for Erasmus+ mobility groups.

Does your organisation have specific training needs? Our network of highly qualified and experienced trainers can design a complete tailor-made course from the ground up, aligned with your group’s profile, objectives and Erasmus+ priorities.

Our course catalogue is continuously updated and enriched with new topics.

📲 Scan the QR code on the poster or complete our short expression-of-interest form:
https://forms.gle/rUbX9BPetRhMqDTL6

📧 [email protected]
🌐 educomplus.eu

Let’s learn, connect and transform education together—in the heart of Greece!

22/07/2026

Κυκλοφόρησε το τρίτο newsletter του έργου Erasmus+ «SmartEd – Η ένταξη της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης στα σχολεία».

👉Μέσα στις σελίδες του θα βρείτε όλα τα νέα από την τελική διακρατική συνάντηση στο Βουκουρέστι (7–8 Ιουλίου 2026), τα βασικά αποτελέσματα και τα εκπαιδευτικά προϊόντα του έργου, καθώς και τους επτά φορείς-εταίρους από όλη την Ευρώπη.
Δείτε το newsletter εδώ: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1No5ll6SFLXlH5yxkDdB6_UiUkMgWCTVg/view?usp=sharing

#Εκπαίδευση

17/07/2026

🎉 GREAT NEWS! FOOTT STEPS has been APPROVED! 🎉

We are delighted to announce that our new Erasmus+ project, FOOTT STEPS, has received approval! Coordinated by Bezirksregierung Arnsberg (Germany), this project is the natural continuation of FOOTT PRINTTS—taking the next step in transforming teacher professional development across Europe.

While FOOTT PRINTTS developed a comprehensive six-factor framework for high-quality in-service teacher training, FOOTT STEPS will bring this framework to life:

✅ Validating the framework across diverse European contexts
✅ Building a searchable CPD Scenario Repository with practical, ready-to-use training designs
✅ Delivering a Train-the-Trainer programme so that teacher trainers everywhere can apply the framework with confidence
✅ Creating a sustainable community of practice that connects trainers across borders

At a time when TALIS data reminds us how urgently teachers need meaningful, well-designed professional development, we are proud to move from framework-as-theory to framework-as-practice.

Educom+ is honoured to continue this journey alongside our wonderful European partners. Here's to the next steps—the FOOTT STEPS! 👣

10/07/2026

On 7–8 July 2026, the Educom+ team travelled to Bucharest for the final transnational meeting of the Erasmus+ project "SmartEd – AI Integration in Schools" (2024-1-LT01-KA220-SCH-000244021), wonderfully hosted by our Romanian partner, Asociația pentru Educație și Formare – ASEF.

Over two intensive days, partners from all seven countries — Lithuania (coordinator), Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Turkey and Romania — reviewed the project's final results and shaped a common strategy to keep the SmartEd digital resources alive and growing long after the project's end. 🌱

👉 SmartEd set out to bring Artificial Intelligence into European classrooms in a responsible, inclusive way: equipping teachers with the skills to integrate AI into their lesson design and offering adaptive learning tools for diverse learners, especially students with special educational needs.

🎯Two years later, with three complete sets of educational resources, the SmartEd AI Learning Platform and hundreds of teachers reached across Europe—including the 51 educators, school leaders and advisors who joined our Greek multiplier event in June—we can proudly say this goal has been achieved. 💙

A heartfelt thank you to ASEF and its President, Mihaela Cojocaru, for their warm hospitality in Bucharest; to our Lithuanian coordinator; and to all partners for two years of genuine collaboration. Endings like this one are really beginnings: the future of education is bright, inclusive and future-ready! ✨

🔗 Explore the project results and the SmartEd platform on the official project website: https://smartedai.net/about/

05/07/2026

Supporting "Aephoric Poetry 2026 — Message in a Bottle" 🌊

At Educom+, we are always glad to see creative initiatives that bring the English language, poetry and young voices together—and this one is growing beyond borders.
The Aephoric Poetry 2026 action, organised by MM Education Center—English Language School, Maria Michael (Karditsa), invites students aged 8 to 18 from any school, in any country, to write a poem in English on the theme "Message in a Bottle." The submission deadline has just been extended to November 10th, 2026 and the action will culminate in a hybrid award ceremony in Karditsa, along with the presentation of the first Aephoric Poetry e-Book.
We warmly encourage the schools and educators in our network to take part.
📩 Poems are submitted to: [email protected]

28/06/2026

At Educom+, one of the things we value most in our Erasmus+ partnerships is when a project produces tools that continue to work long after the final report is submitted.

The FOOTT PRINTTS Trainer Companion Card is one of those tools. Co-authored by our President, Georgia-Konstantia Karagianni, together with Anna Kapsalis, the Card translates the six FOOTT PRINTTS factors — Professional Identity, CPD Satisfaction, Professional Support, School Development & Participation, Organisation & Delivery, and CPD Design Elements — into a single-page planning and reflection tool for anyone leading teacher training sessions.

Three questions per factor. Before the session, during it, after it. A complete quality cycle on one page.

But we think it carries a second function worth naming: it can serve as a quality framework for selecting and evaluating CPD under Erasmus+ KA1 mobility funding. Which training providers genuinely address teachers' professional identity? Which courses build in structured peer interaction and active creation, not just passive input? Which connects individual learning to school development?

The Card offers a principled set of criteria — grounded in research across seven European countries and validated through the FOOTT PRINTTS project — to answer exactly those questions, both before and after a KA1 mobility experience.

The Card and the full Guidebook are freely available at foottprintts.eu. We warmly invite colleagues working in teacher training and Erasmus+ coordination to explore them and share their experience with us.

31/05/2026

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Back from Vienna and the International Conference "Facing Global Challenges in Education through Lifelong Learning", hosted by the University College of Teacher Education Vienna (PH Wien), in the Hedy Lamarr Hall (26–28 May 2026).

Together with the Head of the Directorate of Studies of the Greek Ministry of Education (ΥΠΑΙΘΑ), Andreas Nigiannis; the Regional Supervisor of Western Greece, Athanasia Balomenou; and the Quality Supervisor of the Directorate of Primary Education of Trikala, Vassilios Kotoulas, we travelled to Vienna and took part in the conference as members of the research team of the European project FOOTT PRINTTS — and as representatives of Educom+, a partner in the project. The project is coordinated by BR Arnsberg (Germany), which oversees and supports the professional development of 40,000 teachers.

🎯🎯 Two keynote talks set the tone for the entire event. Chrissi Nerantzi (University of Leeds) opened the conference with "Facts, Fairytales and Freedoms: Professional Learning for Educators", inviting us to see the pressures teachers face as opportunities rather than obstacles. On the second day, Cormac Noonan (Wolf Academy) presented "A Rooted Wellbeing Framework: Strengthening Teacher Well-Being in a Changing World" — an ever-timely reminder that teacher well-being and sound mental health are a foundation for everything we do, not a side issue.

Between the keynotes, many engaging workshops, parallel sessions and poster presentations took place — from artificial intelligence in teacher education to school development, professional identity, inclusion, resilience, and the mental health of both students and teachers.

What stayed with me most, though, was how seriously the conference treated networking as an integral part of empowering teachers, rather than a mere coffee break. From the get-together evening before the official opening to the wonderful closing with live music from the university's band, there was real space for professional dialogue among education professionals from different countries and systems — and that is exactly where good practice begins to "travel".

👉 One of the most creative moments for me was the workshop I led with Anna Kapsalis, trainer at BR Arnsberg (Germany). Together we took the Trainer Companion Card — the reflection tool that accompanies the project's Guidebook, which we co-authored — and explored how to turn it into a Trainee Companion Card: shifting it from a trainer's self-reflection instrument into a learning tool placed in the hands of the learners themselves. Built around the six factors that make professional development meaningful (professional identity, satisfaction, peer support, school development, organisation and hands-on design), the Card took on new life when we redesigned it from the learner's perspective.
👉 Both tools are freely available here:
📘 https://foottprintts.eu/foott-printts/

Special thanks to Diana Pastoriza for hosting the event in such a wonderful way and to our Austrian partners at PH Wien (University College of Teacher Education Vienna) for hosting us throughout the conference. Warm thanks, too, to all the FOOTT PRINTTS partners and to Dirk Kolar, head of BR Arnsberg and Anna Kapsalis, coordinators of the FOOTT PRINTTS project, as well as to everyone who made these days so rich! 🙏

09/05/2026

A Major Milestone for Educom+ and the SmartED Project!
We are proud to share that Module 3 of the SmartED Erasmus+ Platform is now live!
🔗 https://smartedai.net/io3-module-3/
20 video lessons on the Adaptation of AI Tools for Special Educational Needs are now freely accessible to teachers across Europe — and Educom+ played a central role in making this happen.

A Major Milestone for Educom+ and the SmartED Project!
We are proud to share that Module 3 of the SmartED Erasmus+ Platform is now live!
🔗 https://smartedai.net/io3-module-3/
20 video lessons on the Adaptation of AI Tools for Special Educational Needs are now freely accessible to teachers across Europe — and Educom+ played a central role in making this happen.

👉What is Module 3 about?
Module 3 is a complete, structured learning path for educators who want to use AI meaningfully and ethically in inclusive classrooms. The 20 videos are organized around real teaching challenges and cover:
🎯 Foundation (Videos 1–3) — Introduction to AI for SEN, Universal Design for Learning, and a taxonomy of AI tool categories
📖 Reading Difficulties (Videos 4–5) — Text-to-speech tools and visual support strategies
✍️ Writing Difficulties (Videos 6–7) — Speech-to-text tools and AI writing assistants
💬 Communication (Videos 8–10) — AAC systems: introduction, implementation, and multilingual/translation tools
🧠 ADHD Support (Videos 11–13) — Organization tools, focus strategies, and AI-assisted task breakdown
👁️ Sensory Impairments (Videos 14–16) — Visual impairments, hearing impairments, and multimodal learning
🌟 Autism Spectrum (Videos 17–18) — Structure & predictability tools and social-emotional learning support
🏫 Implementation & Ethics (Videos 19–20) — Classroom strategies and a thoughtful look at ethics, data privacy, and the future of AI in special education

👉Why this matters
Behind each video is a carefully crafted script designed to speak directly to teachers – with clarity, warmth and practical guidance they can apply from the very next lesson. Each module runs approximately 5–6 minutes and is formatted for accessibility and professional delivery.
This work sits at the intersection of inclusive education, digital pedagogy, and teacher professional development — values that define Educom+'s mission since its founding.

About SmartED
SmartED (KA220-SCH, project no. 2024-1-LT01-KA220-SCH-000244021) is an Erasmus+ cooperation project focused on integrating AI tools into schools with a focus on equity and inclusion. Educom+ is a proud partner in this effort.

🌍 The platform is open to all. Share it with every educator who believes that technology, when used wisely, can open doors for every learner.