Learnovate partner and collaborate with schools to bring EU-funded innovation into classrooms, shaping solutions that support long-term change in education.
How we work with schools
We work closely with schools as active partners in our EU projects, making sure everything we develop is grounded in real classroom experience.
Schools typically get involved in a few key ways:
- Taking part in pilot programmes to test new tools and approaches in real classroom settings
- Co-designing project outputs, with teachers and students helping shape what we create
- Contributing to research through classroom activities, case studies, and feedback
- Engaging in professional development opportunities linked to the project
- Supporting student pilots and sharing ongoing feedback to help refine and improve outcomes
Example of Project
TD3C (Teacher Digital Content Creation Competencies) is an Erasmus+ project focused on identifying and strengthening the academic and digital competencies teachers need to create high-quality digital learning content. Edmund Rice College, Dublin was the Irish partner school in the initial pilot, where teachers contributed to Focus Groups that helped shape the early TD3C framework and associated resources. They piloted it in their lesson preparation and implemented their digital content creation with their students, providing feedback that informed its development.
The scaled pilot then extended this work across a broader group of Irish schools: CBS Dungarvan, Villiers School Limerick, High School CBS Clonmel, Stratford College Dublin 6, and Stepaside Educate Together Secondary School. Teachers in these schools contributed feedback on both the digital and academic competencies within the TD3C Framework, and reflected on how using it shaped and enriched their lesson preparation, student engagement, and student feedback in the classroom. Together, these pilot phases helped ensure that the framework and related teacher education resources were grounded in real school practice and could be used more widely to support both in-service and pre-service teachers.
Teacher Digital Content Creation Competencies
Example of Project
TD3C (Teacher Digital Content Creation Competencies) is an Erasmus+ project focused on identifying and strengthening the academic and digital competencies teachers need to create high-quality digital learning content. Edmund Rice College, Dublin was the Irish partner school in the initial pilot, where teachers contributed to Focus Groups that helped shape the early TD3C framework and associated resources. They piloted it in their lesson preparation and implemented their digital content creation with their students, providing feedback that informed its development.
The scaled pilot then extended this work across a broader group of Irish schools: CBS Dungarvan, Villiers School Limerick, High School CBS Clonmel, Stratford College Dublin 6, and Stepaside Educate Together Secondary School. Teachers in these schools contributed feedback on both the digital and academic competencies within the TD3C Framework, and reflected on how using it shaped and enriched their lesson preparation, student engagement, and student feedback in the classroom. Together, these pilot phases helped ensure that the framework and related teacher education resources were grounded in real school practice and could be used more widely to support both in-service and pre-service teachers.
Teacher Digital Content Creation Competencies
School partnerships in numbers
Partnering and collaborating with schools across Ireland through EU and national projects.
- EU projects (active or completed): 14
- Schools partnered or collaborated with: 14
- Counties engaged with: 6
- Students reached across pilots and initiatives (including Engaging Minds, UDL BoE and related projects): 1,150+
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