Newsletters ATS2020, No. 3 (October 2016)

About the project ATS2020

ATS2020 is a three-year European research project aiming to support and enhance the teaching, learning and assessment of transversal skills in 10 to 15 year-old students. Central to ATS2020 is a seven-month classroom pilot, which facilitates the implementation of electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) and innovative learning approaches into participating classrooms. The ATS2020 learning model and My Learning Cycle are specially-developed resources that are used for guidance during this pilot.

Throughout ATS2020's lifecycle, the project partners from 10 countries (Belgium, Cyprus, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovenia and Spain) work towards fulfilling the project remit which is to provide teachers and students with new learning approaches to develop and assess transversal skills.

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What are we doing now? 

This is where the ATS2020 project currently stands:

• This September, 250 schools begin the seven-month pilot phase of the project. This phase is set to engage 10,000 students across Europe and 1,000 teachers. They will be trained and provided with new teaching and learning approaches to develop and assess transversal skills.

• Pre-pilot evaluation tests are being finalized and will be issued to students in mid- October, 2016.

• A project partners meeting will take place on 10th and 11th October 2016, in Tampere (Finland).

• Project evaluators will participate in an evaluation workshop on 12th October, 2016 in Tampere (Finland).  

• The ATS2020 annual report has been confirmed by the European Commission.
   

International and national events:

• Cypriot teachers familiarize themselves with ATS 2020 tools during the 4th workshop for teachers.

• Presentation of ATS2020 project at the international workshop.

• ATS2020 strategic team meeting at the National Education Institute of Slovenia.

• Short presentation of ATS2020 at the (Aus) Bildungskongress der Bundeswehr conference, in Hamburg, Germany.  

• The first ATS2020 workshop for Croatian teachers on June16, in Zagreb, Croatia.  

• ATS2020 talk delivered to teachers involved in the education project, ‘Classroom of the Future’ in Austria.  

• Fourth Central Meeting of the Schools in Slovenia.  

• Fourth Project Partner Meeting in Dublin.  

• Presentation of ATS2020 project at the International Workshop on Preparing New Policy Experimentation Projects.