Erasmus+ Teacher Academies

The Erasmus+ Teacher Academies aim to facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, mobility and provide teachers and trainers with learning opportunities at all phases of teachers’ and trainers’ careers by promoting close cooperation between organisations active in initial and continuing teacher education and training, complement other work done in achieving the Education Area, and help transfer the results to national and regional policy making and eventually to teacher education and support for schools.

They are to build on the innovations and effective practice that exists within national teacher education and European cooperation and develop them further. Specific attention is to be paid to dissemination and exploitation of effective practice across countries and teacher education providers, and to ensuring feedback and impact also at policy level.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ACTION

The overall objective of this action is to create European partnerships of teacher[1]education institutions and training providers to set up Teacher Academies that will develop a European and international outlook in teacher education.

These Academies aim to develop teacher education in line with the EU’s priorities in education policy and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the European Education Area. The action focusses on networking, mobility and innovative methods, and will also embrace multilingualism, language awareness and cultural diversity topics

The Erasmus+ Teacher Academies have the following objectives:

• Contribute to the improvement of teacher education policies and practices in Europe by creating networks and communities of practice on teacher education that bring together providers of initial teacher education (preservice education for future teachers) and providers of continuing professional development (in-service), other relevant actors such as teacher associations, ministries and stakeholders to develop and test strategies and programmes for professional learning that is effective, accessible and transferable to other contexts.
• Develop and test jointly different models of mobility (virtual, physical and blended) in initial teacher education and as part of teachers’ continuous professional development in order to enhance the quality and number of mobility as well as to make mobility an integral part of teacher education provision in Europe.
• Develop sustainable collaboration between teacher education providers with an impact on the quality of teacher education in Europe and with a view to inform teacher education policies at European and national levels.
• Enhance the European dimension and internationalisation of teacher education through innovative and practical collaboration with teacher educators and teachers in other European countries and by sharing experiences for the further development of teacher education in Europe.

For more information consult the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2025.