REthinking EDUcation COmpetencies. Εxpertise, best practices and teaching in Digital Era (RE-EDUCO) is an action research project aims to create the best conditions of exchange best practices to produce innovation and cooperation in and between countries’ partners (Italy, Spain, Finland, Greece, Cyprus). The RE-EDUCO project aims to strengthen the role of digital culture as a means to improve the growth opportunities for students and teachers, widening their choices in private and professional life, through research, exchange of good practices, training and creative activities.

In the context of the first of the RE-EDUCO outputs, several information and orientation seminars and training activities took place in all partner countries to empower people and community and increase their awareness of risks and opportunities of digitalization for life, learning and professions. The actions had an overall duration of 52 hours (per country) and the topics addressed included:

• European Context for digital innovation
• New technologies: risk and opportunities for work and life
• CyberBullismo
• Digital Ethics
• Critical use of social media and internet data
• New skills and new labour perspective: Trends, profile, emerging competences
• Digital technologies & Society 5.0
• New Digital Identity and Active citizenship
• Secure data and privacy skills and new labour perspective: Trends, profile, emerging

Specifically, seminars and training activities in Greece took place from 1/3/2021 until 24/4/2021 with the participation of three provincial schools, namely the 5th General Lyceum of Agrinio, the 5th General Lyceum of Heraklion and the Model High School of Mytilene. A total of 127 students and 9 teachers were registered and participated. Since the schools were closed throughout Greece due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all actions were realized in an online manner. Both teachers and students expressed their satisfaction with the topics and the educational content and their willingness to participate in other project activities as well, such as the RE-EDUCO’s teachers’ online training and school contest.

On November 16th, the first virtual meeting of the ReEDUCO “Rethinking Education Competencies” project, co-financed by the Erasmus + program of the European Commission, took place online.

The international consortium is composed by Link Campus University, Italian Digital Revolution (Italy), Hellenic Open University (Greece), Omnia (Finland), Cyprus Computer Society (Cyprus) and Insomnia consulting (Spain).

The meeting allowed the partners involved to introduce themselves and share skills, methodologies and tools for the development of the activities that will follow in the coming months. During the meeting, the foundations of the first phases of the project were laid.

The RE-EDUCO project promotes the production, experimentation and sharing of new approaches and training methods in digital innovation. Through research, the exchange of good practices, training and creative activities, the role of digital culture is strengthened as a means to improve the growth opportunities for students and teachers.