This project aims to train teachers to work with digital tools after the pandemic, building further on skills and needs developed during the pandemic. We tested and improved the developed toolkits in several existing educational programmes on sustainability, with a focus on the Energy Challenges programme. We firstly focused on facilitating discussions and evaluations of teacher’s experiences with using digital tools in the classroom. The lessons learned we used to improve and strengthen digital educational tools, make them more sustainable, future-proof, and pandemic-proof. Secondly, we are investigated how we can improve the content of our developed toolbox. To do this, we had to testing it in multiple schools executing different existing educational programmes from our international project partners. Tknika, the center promoted by the Deputy Ministry of Vocational Education and Training of the Education Department of the Basque Government, was a central supporting partner in this. Tknika is modeled after some of the world’s most advanced vocational training centers.
The DIGITECH project is about the Development of dIGItal and information TECHnological competences by primary education teachers and takes place in the context of the COVID-19 crisis with the climate crisis and the energy transition in the background. This project focuses on the digital skills that school teachers from both primary and secondary schools need for digital teaching during and after the COVID-crisis. Based on experience, work needs to be done especially on the way of teachers in coping with digital learning environments. Hence, our main goal with the DIGITECH project was to decrease and ultimately take away the backlog of current teachers in using digital skills in teaching. The time of having a separate IT department has passed. If you want to work with digital skills, you have to do this in every terrain. No matter if you teach mathematics, chemistry, languages, or any other subject, we have to work on the digital skills of both teachers and students in all areas. In this project, we are going to work on the improvement of digital skills in the area of sustainability and energy transition. We chose to focus on teachers because that is the start; the have to teach their students the digital skills.