Output 3
Educational Organisation’s readiness towards a swift to Digital Learning Certification

School Certification Process

  1. Interested schools must express their intent to participate in the self-assessment process by submitting a Google Form accessed through a Newsletter, flyer, or website.
  2. The self-assessment process will be completed by answering the Self-Evaluation criteria.
  3. The scoring system for the self-assessment process is as follows: The Teacher/Headmaster completing the self-evaluation will calculate the average score per category.

i)                 If the result is a score less than 3.5 in any category, the school will be deemed to have failed the assessment and will be required to review Intellectual Output 1 & Intellectual Output 2 before retaking the self-evaluation, along with providing an explanation for the low score.

ii)               If the average score is above 3.5 in all categories, the school will be considered fully equipped and ready to receive certification.

  1. Through the self-assessment process, the school will be able to identify its weaknesses based on the evaluation criteria. Any average score lower than 3.5 will be considered an indication that improvement is needed.
  2. The school will be required to submit the results of the self-assessment, along with any required evidence, to the internal ETRe evaluation committee.
  3. The internal ETRe evaluation committee may invite the school to participate in a short online interview before confirming certification.
  4. If the initial self-assessment indicates that the school does not require improvement (average score of 3.5 or higher), the school may apply directly for full certification (valid for 2 years) by submitting the results of the self-assessment along with concrete evidence.
  5. If the initial self-assessment indicates that the school requires improvement (average score lower than 3.5), the school will be required to repeat the self-assessment after a minimum of 3 months from the submission of Stage 1, and submit the results along with an evidence-based improvement report. The improvement must be accompanied by evidence of concrete changes.
  6. The consortium will evaluate the application and make a decision on granting certification.

·       Level 1: Results of self-assessment, plan of Action (if needed), concrete evidence.

·       Level 2: Results of self-assessment, improvement report with evidence of concrete changes.

Enter the ETRe Certification page

Project Result Description

The project, aiming to critically impact the educational organisations’ readiness towards a digital swift and the implementation of a distance/hybrid learning model, will develop a set of processes, tools and competences, as part of a certification process aiming to set a standard for an educational organisation’s readiness towards a swift to a distance/hybrid learning environment based on the needs that were observed during the last time such a need was present and more importantly, based on the findings and results of Output 1 and Output 2, taking, in parallel, under consideration the feed-back from the Focus-Groups and the schools of the partners’ networks that were asked to provide feed-back for O1 and O2 results.

A certification, at an EU level, will empower the collaboration between the educators and schools community as a common framework will act as a reference, enabling the exchange of ideas that schools and educators are ready, have the know-how and the tools to implement in a short notice.

The areas of focus of the certification, based on O1 and O2 will be:

  • key personnel competences
  • technological infrastructure
  • digitalisation of content
  • readiness for rapid transition

The project, aiming to critically impact the educational organisations’ readiness towards a digital swift and the implementation of a distance/hybrid learning model, will develop a set of processes, tools and competences, as part of a certification process aiming to set a standard for an educational organisation’s readiness towards a swift to a distance/hybrid learning environment based on the needs that were observed during the last time such a need was present and more importantly, based on the findings and results of Output 1 and Output 2, taking, in parallel, under consideration the feed-back from the Focus-Groups and the schools of the partners’ networks that were asked to provide feed-back for O1 and O2 results.

A certification, at an EU level, will empower the collaboration between the educators and schools community as a common framework will act as a reference, enabling the exchange of ideas that schools and educators are ready, have the know-how and the tools to implement in a short notice.

The areas of focus of the certification, based on O1 and O2 will be:

– key personnel competences

– technological infrastructure

– digitalisation of content

– readiness for rapid transition

Partners will find at least 2 schools to go through the certification project. Contacts have started between partners and Doukas School (Greece) and Gimnazija Koco Racin (Republic of North Macedonia) in the preparation phase of the project.

The innovation of this output is in the determination of a standard to evaluate a school’s and an educational’s organisation’s readiness towards a rapid transition to a, digitally supported, distance/hybrid learning model. The process of certification a that a school will follow, will educate schools and schools’ decision makers on how to work in order to prepare themselves to efficiently make such a transition.

The transnationality of this output is ensured through the transnational aspect of the input utilised to develop its results and that derive from findings and results of the previous outputs.

Project Result Implementation Period

Start date: April 2022
End date: March 2023