🌍 Just returned (virtually!) from an inspiring transnational project meeting of the Erasmus+ KA220 project: ”FOOTT PRINTTS – Focus On Teacher Training: Practical Guidelines for In-service Teacher Trainers”, held in the beautiful city of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.

Despite a last-minute flight cancellation, Educom+ was able to join the discussions online, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our Portuguese hosts, who ensured full hybrid participation. A heartfelt obrigado to the CFAE-PVVC team for their warm hospitality—both on-site and online!

🎯 A highlight of the meeting was the insightful presentation of the survey results by our colleagues from the University of Vienna . The team shared both quantitative and qualitative data, sparking a fruitful discussion among partners about current challenges and emerging needs in in-service teacher training across Europe.

These results are laying the foundation for a comprehensive framework that will support teacher trainers with practical tools and evidence-based strategies, ensuring quality and consistency across contexts.

👏 We’re proud to be part of this dynamic and forward-thinking consortium. Looking forward to the next steps as we continue shaping meaningful, impactful training practices for the educators who support our schools every day.

About the Author: Georgia Karagianni

Georgia is an English teacher with further training in educational psychology, inclusive education, counselling and teaching Greek as a foreign language. She has participated in many European projects (Erasmus+ KA2 & KA3) producing intellectual outputs on intercultural education, inclusive practices, creativity, pedagogical exploitation of digital tools, environmental education, and more. She has served for five years as Head of the Department of Educational Affairs in the Directorate of Secondary Education of Karditsa Prefecture. She holds an MA in “New Forms of Education and Learning”, an MA in “Language Education for Migrants and Refugees”, and a PhD in Open and Distance Learning from the Hellenic Open University, with her research focusing on digital metacognition and learning autonomy. She is a teacher trainer in Erasmus+ KA1 mobility courses and a trainer and syllabus creator at the Center of Lifelong Learning of the Hellenic Open University. She is currently serving as an EFL Education Consultant for Primary and Secondary Education at the Directorates of Education of Trikala and Karditsa, Greece.