ELA: Erasmus+ Training Courses for teachers and educational staff

Bologna's famous porticoes weren't just architecture. They were an invitation to walk, talk, and think together. That spirit of collaboration is exactly what you'll find in our Erasmus+ training courses here.
Discover our courses in Bologna: https://www.rfr.bz/fd04d04

I can multitask. Every student says it. Every study says otherwise.
Attention Price Tags makes this visible without a lecture. Small groups receive a limited set of ""attention coins"" and a deck of activity cards representing things that compete for their focus: studying, social media, music, conversations, notifications. They discuss and decide where to place their coins for one typical hour.

Then surprise cards arrive. An urgent message. A deadline that moved. A friend who needs them. They have to reallocate, and they quickly discover that every time they say yes to something, something else loses their attention entirely.
The strength of this activity is that students reach the conclusion themselves. You do not need to tell them that attention is finite or that multitasking is a myth. They experience it, then connect it to their own habits during the debrief.

It practises prioritisation, collaborative decision making, and critical thinking about digital distractions, all in one session.

Three inspiring days in Palermo for the second TPM of the CITIZEN-A project. From 20 to 22 April 2026, partners came together to share ideas, review progress, and shape the next steps of our common journey toward more inclusive digital citizenship education for adult learners with intellectual disabilities.

Hosted by ELA Sicilia, the meeting brought together Erasmus Learning Academy SL (ES), Obrtničko učilište - ustanova za obrazovanje odraslih (HR), Erasmus Learning Academy SRL (IT), and Maria’s World Foundation (BG). We worked on project progress and reporting, finalised important parts of WP2, explored the next steps for WP3, discussed WP4, and brainstormed creative ideas for the awareness campaign and adult-led initiatives.

Beyond the working sessions, Palermo offered the perfect setting for cultural exchange, meaningful conversations, and stronger connections among partners. We leave this meeting with new ideas, clear deadlines, renewed energy, and an even stronger shared commitment to building accessible, engaging, and empowering learning opportunities for all.

A student tells you they are overwhelmed. You respond: ""You should try organising your time better."" Sounds helpful, right? It is actually an empathy buster.

Psychologists have identified 8 responses that look like empathy but actually shut it down: fixing it, advising, explaining, one-upping, storytelling, consoling, sympathizing, and interrogating.

They all do the same thing: shift the focus away from the other person's feelings, either by offering a solution, making it about you, or minimising the emotion.

Real empathy is simpler than all of these. It sounds like: ""I understand you are feeling overwhelmed."" No fix. No story. No judgement. Just presence.
Try it this week. You might be surprised how differently people respond.
Explore our Soft Skills and Classroom Management courses: https://www.rfr.bz/fa44b69

Screen time, misinformation, cyberbullying, data privacy. These are not just headlines. They are what your learners navigate every single day.
The challenge for educators is not whether to address digital wellbeing. It is how. How do you teach critical thinking about online content? How do you help learners build a healthy relationship with technology without banning it?

Our course ""Digital Wellbeing and Safety for Teachers and Students"" in Bologna (5–11 July 2026) gives you practical answers:
✅ Understanding the real impact of digital habits on physical, emotional and cognitive wellbeing
✅ Strategies to promote mindful tech use and manage screen time
✅ Fact checking techniques and media literacy tools you can bring to the classroom
✅ Frameworks for teaching digital citizenship, online ethics and responsible behaviour
✅ Practical activities on digital identity, empathy online and safe digital habits
✅ A week of exchange with educators from across Europe on one of the most current topics in education All inclusive.
Erasmus+ funded. You just book your flight.
⭐ 4.9/5 on Trustpilot from 10,000+ participants.
👉 Register here: https://www.rfr.bz/f955ebd

Ask your class to do one simple thing: count to 15 together. One person says each number. No assigned order, no hand signals, no planning. If two people speak at the same time, everyone starts over from 1.

It sounds trivial. In practice, it is one of the most effective team building exercises you can run in a classroom. Students fail, restart, fail again. Slowly they start paying attention: who tends to jump in? Who waits? How does the group find its rhythm without anyone leading?

The beauty of Count to 15 is that the debrief writes itself. Students can immediately articulate what went wrong and what changed when it started working. Listening, patience, awareness of others, all learned through experience, not explanation.

Works with any age group, any class size, any subject. Try it and tell us how many restarts it took.

This is one of the methods from our Erasmus+ training courses. All inclusive, covered by your Erasmus+ grant.
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When participants become a team, then friends. When the trainer makes everyone feel at home from day one. When the standard is set so high that every future experience will be compared to it. That's Éva's week in Bologna during our Soft Skills for Education Staff course.

Explore the course and upcoming dates: https://www.rfr.bz/f12300e

What do you do when you see bullying happening in real time? Most educators have strong instincts but no clear protocol. These 5 steps can help.
First: stop the action immediately. Step between the students and block eye contact. Your job right now is to interrupt, not investigate.

Second: do not send bystanders away. It can escalate the tension. Sort out the facts later.

Third: talk to each person involved separately, not in front of the group. Wait until everyone is calm.

Fourth: support the bullied student with dignity. Make sure they feel safe from retaliation. Increase supervision.
Fifth: notify colleagues and parents. Make sure the situation is monitored going forward.

These steps are simple but they require practice. Knowing what to do before it happens makes all the difference.
Explore our training course for teachers: https://www.rfr.bz/f38c29d

Zagreb sits at the crossroads of Central Europe and the Mediterranean, a city where different traditions, languages, and perspectives meet naturally. For educators, it's the ideal setting to develop intercultural competence through our Erasmus+ training courses.

Discover our courses in Zagreb: https://www.rfr.bz/f9f4fd8

There is a big difference between putting learners in groups and actually teaching them to work as a team. Without the right structure, group work can quickly become frustrating for everyone involved.
Our course ""Effective Group Management: Team Building and Teamwork in the Classroom"" in Tenerife (14–20 June 2026) gives you the practical tools to close that gap:
✅ Understanding the difference between group work and real teamwork, and how to build the latter
✅ Techniques for promoting a sense of belonging and constructive group behaviours
✅ Strategies for assigning meaningful roles so every learner contributes
✅ Coaching approaches to support learners during the group process
✅ Formative assessment and feedback methods designed specifically for teamwork
✅ A full week of hands on practice with educators from across Europe
You will experience every activity yourself as a participant before bringing it back to your classroom.

All inclusive. Erasmus+ funded. You just book your flight.
⭐ 4.9/5 on Trustpilot from 10,000+ participants.
👉 Register here: https://www.rfr.bz/fc6229e

A child who constantly says ""no"" might be learning independence. A teenager who withdraws might be searching for identity. A student who gives up easily might feel inferior, not lazy.

Erikson's theory of psychosocial development helps us read these behaviours differently. Each stage of life brings a key challenge, and how students resolve it shapes their confidence, relationships, and sense of self.

In this carousel, we focused on 3 stages that directly impact the classroom: preschool (initiative vs. guilt), school age (industry vs. inferiority), and adolescence (identity vs. role confusion).

Understanding these stages doesn't just change how we teach. It changes how we connect with our students.
Explore our Wellbeing training courses for teachers: https://www.rfr.bz/f3f353c