
Erasmus course on Digital wellbeing for teachers and students: how to foster awareness and safety
Overview
Living in the 21st century means living in a fully digitalized world. This has had a profound impact on our lives at the physical, emotional, social, and cognitive level, especially on younger generations, while also transforming the way we teach, study, and learn. Raising awareness of how and why this happens has become a crucial step in protecting and supporting both students’ and teachers’ wellbeing.
Target Audience
This course is addressed to teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff working in primary schools, secondary schools, vocational schools, training centres, adult education schools, higher education and NGOs. Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels.
Languages
The course is held in English.
For groups with at least 8 participants, we can organize an ad-hoc session in a different language. Please write an email to
info@erasmuslearningacademy.eu
to get more information about it.
| Location | Starting Date | Ending Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athens | 18/10/2026 | 24/10/2026 | Open for Enrollment |
| Zagreb | 25/10/2026 | 31/10/2026 | Open for Enrollment |
| Bologna | 14/02/2027 | 20/02/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Lisbon | 14/02/2027 | 20/02/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Tenerife | 28/02/2027 | 06/03/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Palermo | 09/05/2027 | 15/05/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Bologna | 27/06/2027 | 03/07/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Zagreb | 04/07/2027 | 10/07/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Palermo | 11/07/2027 | 17/07/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Tenerife | 15/08/2027 | 21/08/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
Skills
What will you learn?
The general aim of this course is to foster awareness, balance and digital citizenship among teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff, empowering them to promote healthier digital habits and responsible online behavior in their professional and personal lives. Participants will also have the chance to exchange best practices and experiences with fellow educators from across Europe, gaining a broader understanding of how digital wellbeing can be integrated into education.
Learning Outcomes
This course provides participants with an overview of the key concepts and challenges related to digital wellbeing in the context of a cooperative, inspirational and stimulating space where to discuss and practice new mindful and responsible approaches to digital tools.
This course allows participants to explore the concept of digital wellbeing and to use media more mindfully and critically, while developing critical thinking skills and understanding digital citizenship and safe online behavior. Participants will also share and exchange best practices and experiences with fellow European teachers and education staff, promoting a healthier and more conscious digital culture in education.
Digital wellbeing, media literacy and mindful tech use
Understand digital wellbeing and its impact on health; learn strategies to manage screen time and focus; develop critical thinking to spot misinformation and evaluate online content effectively.
Digital citizenship, identity and safe online practices
Explore responsible digital behaviour, empathetic communication and the role of digital identity; discover practical tools and activities to promote students’ online safety and positive digital habits.
Exchange, collaboration and European networking
Share challenges and good practices with peers and trainers, while building connections with educators and organizations across Europe committed to responsible and inclusive use of technology in education.
Daily Program
Please find below the standard indicative daily programme that will be personalized on participants needs and professional profiles.
Our standard programme comprises 7 days, of which the first one is dedicated to networking, preparation and cultural immersion and the last one to follow up, specific needs and cultural activities. Please note that we always do our best to accommodate the specific needs of our participants in a flexible way, including but not limited to budget restrictions and travel arrangements. Participants can choose to arrive 1 day before the start of the course and/or leave one day after the end of it in order to enjoy a deeper cultural immersion. Upon specific request we may organize longer versions of this course.
| Sunday | -Participants arrival -Course introduction -Schools/institutions’ presentation & best practices sharing -Walking tour in the venue’s city | ||
| Monday | – Needs and expectations evaluation – Team building exercises – Understand the meaning and importance of digital wellbeing – Reflecting on personal digital habits – Identifying areas for improvement and balance | ||
| Tuesday | – Getting to know our students – The myth of multitasking – Strategies to improve focus and mindful tech use – Practical work: design ideas to help students manage screen time – Cultural activities in the venue’s city | ||
| Wednesday | – Critical thinking and misinformation – Practice fact-checking techniques – Digital and media literacy – Practical work: develop ideas to teach media literacy | ||
| Thursday | – Introduction to digital citizenship – Key aspects of digital citizenship education – The importance of active participation in learning digital citizenship. – Techniques for engaging learners: learning by doing, interactive discussions, gamification and real-life simulations. | ||
| Friday | – Promoting responsible digital behavior – Digital ethics: data privacy, online rights, and the consequences of irresponsible behavior. – Encouraging self-regulation and positive digital engagement. – Developing classroom guidelines for ethical online behavior – Digital identity and footprint – Encouraging empathy and inclusion online – Consolidating learning and reflecting on key takeaways – Farewell dinner | ||
| Saturday | – Exchange of best practices and experiences and space for discussion of future cooperation – Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities – Course roundup and final evaluation – Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony – Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional) – Participants departure |
Other relevant facts
Methodology
All our courses have a standard duration of 7 days, totaling 35 hours of training. This includes both formal teaching sessions and practical activities, as well as moments for discussion, cultural experiences, and networking, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience in line with Erasmus+ quality standards.
We tailor the working methods based upon participants’ needs, attitudes and professional profiles in order to ensure high productivity, effectiveness and transferability into practice.
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on learning in an interactive and international environment knowledge applicable to the real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange. They include visits with local schools and institutions allowing the participants to better understand the local education system as well as exchange ideas and contacts.
Morning Wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure quality of education and to adapt the learning programme to participants’ needs better tailoring the education.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know Italy as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional cooperation and links.
The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We offer our courses in an all-inclusive format: training and accommodation in the same venue, networking meals during the courses as well as cultural visits are provided by us and are fully covered by the Erasmus+ funding. In this way participants just need to organise their international flights and can rely on us for all the other practical arrangements.
If you prefer you can take care of some of the practical arrangements (e.g. meals, accommodation…) by yourself but we strongly recommend entrusting us with the accommodation booking in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, networking with fellow
participants, safety and time-efficiency.
Read more about how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements.
The most common option that we offer to schools and organizations costs EUR 1,415 in Bologna, EUR 1,235 in Palermo and Zagreb, EUR 1,265 in Tenerife, 1215 EUR in Athens and EUR 1,335 in Porto. This price includes the course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, breakfast, 2 coffee breaks per day, 3 networking meals (shared lunch/dinner opportunities with other participants), a walking tour in the venue’s city and a sum-up dissemination video.
Please note: in Bologna the price includes full board (all meals), whereas in the other locations only the 3 networking meals are included alongside breakfast.
Prices shown may vary for specific courses that include extra services or visits to schools and associations. More detailed pricing information for each course is available upon request or at the time of enrolment.
For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. In this way you can have more flexibility in planning your stay and you can enjoy all the cultural activities planned from the first to the last day of course. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding. Shall you have need any help with filling the budget during the application stage or have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to support you.
Certification and Validation of learning outcomes
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance, together – if requested – with the Europass Mobility Certificate.
The certificate are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and include a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the course provider and the course instructor(s).
We support the participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
We experienced that schools and education organizations may require additional documents to certify the competences learned or the presence in the training course. Upon request we can provide additional certification and reporting documents as well as we provide photos of the training course and a sum-up video that can be used for visibility and dissemination purposes.
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