Proposals submitted under this topic must address one of the following priorities:

Priority 8: Pathways to school success

Projects should address only one of the following 2 sub-priorities:

• Assessing learners’ competences – developing assessment practices to support school success for all learners (with a special focus on formative assessment).

The Council Recommendation on Pathways to School Success, aimed at improving quality and inclusion in school education, invites Member States to place a special attention to assessment policies and practices, which have a key role to play to help adapt teaching and learning more effectively to learners’ needs and support learners’ progression.

• Building a systemic, whole-school approach to mental health and well being in schools in Europe.

At EU level, Pathways to School Success places special attention to well being, both of learners and teachers and supports a whole school approach to well being and mental health.

The whole-system, school approach to well-being and mental health focuses on universal strategies for all school children as a major goal of education.

Pathways to School Success is complemented by an informal expert group on supportive learning environments for groups at risk of underachievement and for supporting well-being at school, that stared its activity on 30 March 2023.

Priority 9: Building sustainability competences

It is crucial for everybody to strengthen and develop competences and skills that help us live, work and act more sustainably.

To support the development and assessment of knowledge, skills and attitudes for sustainability, the Commission published GreenComp, the European competence framework on sustainability in January 2022.  It does not target any education level in particular; rather, policy makers and practitioners can use it and adapt it to their contexts and needs in education and training programmes.

Policy experimentation should support education stakeholders and institutions to strengthen sustainability competence development and foster its systemic integration into education and training by building on the GreenComp framework. Embedding sustainability in a competence-based education can help learners foster a sustainability mindset based on the knowledge, skills and attitudes to think, plan and act with empathy, responsibility, and care for our planet.

Priority 10: Support structures and mechanisms for enhancing mobility of teachers

The Council conclusions on enhancing teachers’ and trainers’ mobility, in particular European mobility, during their initial and in-service education and training, issued in 2022, stresses the benefits of mobility for the professional development of teachers themselves but also for the European development of their education and training institutions, and the education and training systems.

The objective for this European policy experimentation is to support the embedding of learning mobility abroad for teachers (and more generally staff) as standard in the internationalisation strategy of schools, in the education and training systems, as well as in teachers’ careers.