We here at Työväen Akatemia appreciate the benefits of cooperation with both local and international bodies. Over the years we have been involved in a range of projects with partners here in Finland, in Europe and further afield too.
The aim of our project work is to improve the quality of our teaching and guidance, and to broaden the future possibilities for our students.
We are accredited for Erasmus+ mobility for the years 2025-2027.
At present, we are involved in two Erasmus+ projects funded by the European Commission.
This project, completed in April 2026, built on the work of the highly successful Fit for Digital Linguistic Education Erasmus+ project (2020-2023), which developed materials to help language teachers in the adult education sector improve their digital competences.
Having seen at close hand the impact that technology is having on both teachers and learners, project partners from Finland, Austria, Italy, Greece and Spain were keen to provide teachers with a new batch of training and other resources to help them make the most of new technologies such as AI while at the same time being able to deal with the challenges that digital tools sometimes cause. Exact topics were fixed once we’d asked our target groups about their main priorities.
Our specific objectives were:
to help teachers develop their digital competence, so that they are more able to make the most of the digital tools available;
– to improve feedback practices, including through the use of digital tools;
– to improve inclusion and accessibility, so that disadvantaged groups, such as those with Specific Learning Differences can learn more effectively;
– to promote digital resilience and media literacy, so that users can take care of themselves online and think carefully about what they encounter there;
– to encourage teachers to make productive use of new digital tools such as AI to enrich their teaching, and to help learners to make positive use of the tools too.
We created four main project outputs, which can be accessed through the project website: https://www.empower4digiline.eu/ All but the main policy report (1 below) are available in English, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
Project results are:
1. Policy report (EN only). Based on 501 survey responses and in-person interviews with 24 language educators, the report provides an in-depth picture of the current language teaching situation in Europe and the most urgent challenges that language educators face. The main report is in English, with summaries available in all project languages. Project results were then developed to address the needs expressed in these consultations.
2. Online train-the-trainer course. 10 interactive modules to help educators learn about: using new technology such as AI in language education; feedback and assessment with digital tools; inclusion and support for learners with Specific Learning Differences; and developing digital resilience and media literacy for both themselves and their learners. There are also sets of downloadable summary cards for all modules.
3: Digital resilience game. A free, easy to use online game to help language learners and teachers build digital resilience and media literacy, and to develop their own digital competences. 8 modules, with questions, hints and follow-up facts: about 10 minutes’ playing time each. Each module uses a grammar / linguistic element at B1 level, so it can also be used for language learning. For teachers, there is also a teacher guide with no-prep classroom activities and other support materials.
4: Video-based MOOC. 6 sets of videos for teachers, giving practical examples of how digital tools can be used to help empower learners and to enhance the learning experience. Topics covered are: SLDs; digital resilience; AI; inclusion; bringing learning to life; and giving feedback. Each video ends with reflection questions or follow-up exercises. Videos are in English, with subtitles in project languages: there are also summary cards containing the main points in all languages.
The project webpage also includes blogs and articles about language teaching and/or making use of digital tools. You’ll also find more on the project’s Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channels.
More here in Finnish: Link
Teach Peace is an Erasmus+ co-operation project which focuses on developing peace education for adults (duration: 01.09.2025–31.12.2026). The project builds on the small-scale project Strengthening Peace Education for Preventing Conflicts, or SPEC (2024).
The project involves five partner organisations:
The objective of the project is to create a peace education programme that can be used on a wide basis in adult education and other fields. The project aims to improve adult educators’ competences in teaching conflict resolution skills. In addition, the project aims to promote peace as well as civic engagement and participation.
The main project activities are the following:
The project began in September 2025 and will last until December 2026.
Reaching the Stars aims to develop guidance and counselling in adult education by collecting and creating practices that can help adult learners to reach their personal goals, as well as to broaden their vision for the future. The project began in January 2022 and will run for 26 months, until the end of February 2024.
The plan is to produce three concrete outputs:
Reaching the Stars continues in the footsteps of a previous Erasmus+ project, Improving Guidance and Counselling, where the project consortium collected practices for recognising the competences of adult learners. Reaching the Stars will advance the previous work by focusing on how adult learners can reach their goals while taking into account their personal competences and background. Accordingly, the project centres on the concept of hope-based guidance and counselling, which means that it places an empahsis on helping adult learners to better envision their own hopes and wishes for the future.
The coordinator of the project is Työväen Akatemia (Finland). The project partners are Deinde sp. z o.o (Poland), Ljudska univerza Celje (Slovenia) and Education in Progress (Italy).
The Fit 4 Digital Linguistic Education project (2020 – 2023) aims to improve digital and online language teaching by creating a European knowledge base of digital competences which can be used by language educators in their teaching. The project will create an online assessment tool to help teachers identify areas in which they need further professional development, and will produce a variety of training and other resources to support language teachers in the digital and online landscape.
Click here for the project webpage
Click here for the project’s Facebook page
More here in Finnish: Link
Which aimed to develop student guidance.
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Which developed a range of digital open badges.
More in Finnish here: Link
Which aims to develop training in basic digital skills.
More in Finnish here: Link