OBJECTIVES

Our ambition

Our position paper establishes the comprehensive strategic vision, operational methodologies, and explicit European policy integration for the EVOKE (European Visions - Operational Keystones for Education) project at its launch. As we initiate this collaborative endeavor, this document serves as an institutional blueprint to ensure that our future objectives, training activities, and structural frameworks are seamlessly synchronized with the European Commission’s overarching vision. Specifically, EVOKE aims to build a holistic, didactic-methodic concept that fosters student self-efficiency and directly counters the risks of early school leaving and social marginalization across Member States.

1. Institutional framework and transnational consortium

The operational architecture of EVOKE is deliberately decentralized to capture diverse socioeconomic and educational landscapes across the European Union. By pairing localized educational authorities with practical laboratory schools across six nations, the project is structured to pilot and test its deliverables across primary, secondary, and vocational strata:

Germany: Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz working alongside IGS Ernst Bloch Ludwigshafen.
Croatia: Europe House Vukovar (Europski dom Vukovar) paired with Osnovna škola Dragutina Tadijanovića Vukovar.
Poland: Regional Teacher Training Institute Opole (Opolskie Centrum Edukacji - OCE) collaborating with Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa Kluczbork.
Finland: Jyväskylän Yliopisto (University of Jyväskylä) working with Korpilahden yhtenäiskoulu Korpilahti.
Spain: CFIE de Valladolid (Teacher Training and Innovation Center) operating alongside CEIP Gonzalo de Berceo Valladolid.
France: Maison de l'Europe Bourgogne-Franche-Comté / DRAREIC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in coordination with Collège Diderot Besançon.

2. Macro socio-educational challenges addressed by EVOKE

The contemporary European education ecosystem is grappling with compounding vulnerabilities induced by global multi-crises, economic fragmentation, and structural inequalities. EVOKE targets specific systemic risks identified across participating regions:

Socioeconomic disadvantage and alienation: Addressing increased student absenteeism, loss of institutional trust in state and society, and a widespread lack of perspective among marginalized youth.
Deficiencies in democratic literacy: Countering vulnerability to intolerant behavior, disrespect, and a lower willingness to take on personal responsibility within a pluralistic society.
The paradigm vacuum: Moving past traditional, rigid instruction styles that frequently fail at-risk students, transforming classrooms into dynamic spaces that champion collective engagement and critical problem-solving instead.

The EVOKE mandate: Our core transformation process asks: How must the structural evolution of schooling be managed so that ALL young people find their active place in society? Can interdisciplinary, topic-oriented project work strengthen democratic competence while driving real-world social inclusion?

Outcomes

The operational core: planned teacher training activities (TTAs)

To translate European educational priorities into real-world school environments, the consortium centers its structural work around four distinct transnational workshops. These sequential training activities are deployed across the partner regions to address key components of an inclusive and democratic school culture:

Inclusion and diversity

Analyzes the diverse ways in which pupils experience exclusion and identifies bullying as a critical challenge to safe spaces. Focuses on school development, student-centered learning, and pedagogical strategies that build mutual respect and civility.

Democratic culture

Explores state and civil society methods to cultivate empathy, responsibility, and active citizenship. Includes observation modules at the Finnish Parliament, dialogues with educational NGOs, and academic presentations on teacher training and EU institutions simulations.

Project work / Project-Based Learning (PBL)

Focuses on designing collaborative school projects that merge inclusion, digital tools, and democratic parameters. Features field observation visits to local primary and secondary schools and the collaborative creation of media examples to share good practices.

Systemic thinking

Shifts the school lens away from analyzing individual and collective student behaviors. Focuses on relational and holistic institutional processes to ensure that all young people find their active place in school and society without facing marginalization.

About Erasmus+

Erasmus+ is the EU's programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.

It has an estimated budget of €26.2 billion. This is nearly double the funding compared to its predecessor programme (2014-2020).

The 2021-2027 programme places a strong focus on social inclusion, the green and digital transitions, and promoting young people’s participation in democratic life.

It supports priorities and activities set out in the European Education Area, Digital Education Action Plan and the European Skills Agenda. The programme also

supports the European Pillar of Social Rights
implements the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027
develops the European dimension in sport

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