European School Education Platform newsletter – 8 January 2026

Basic skills in every classroom, for every learner

Strengthening basic skills – literacy, mathematics, science, digital competencies and citizenship – is crucial to prepare pupils for future challenges. Our current eTwinning annual theme 2025/26 – Skills for life – offers many opportunities to explore this topic in depth.

Take a look at our latest article full of resources and ideas, including videos, teaching materials and project ideas, and see how you can boost basic skills learning in your classroom.

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Take part in the European School Education Platform user survey

We invite you to share your feedback on the European School Education Platform by completing a short survey. Your input will help us improve the platform to better meet your needs.

The questionnaire takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete and is available in English until 15 January 2026.

Take the survey.

In focus

New resources available for teaching basic skills

We’ve published five new guides on teaching basic skills to help schools strengthen their pupils’ literacy, mathematics, science, digital skills and citizenship. They offer practical, whole school strategies for universal, targeted and individual support. Developed to support the European Commission’s basic skills action plan, these guides provide concrete steps to strengthen learning and inclusion. 

Discover how your school can put these guides into action.

Discover

Our most watched webinars of 2025

Looking back at 2025, our most popular webinars explored topics such as developing pupils’ critical thinking with technology, the journey to becoming an eTwinning school, volunteering as a pedagogical approach, children’s rights in education and teaching about human rights.

While you wait for our 2026 webinar schedule to get underway, why not watch some of our recordings from last year and hear about strategies and insights to make learning more engaging, collaborative and meaningful?

• Supporting critical thinking with technology in the classroom
• The journey to becoming an eTwinning school
• Building bridges: How volunteering transforms classrooms
• Enabling children’s right to be heard in education
• Teaching about human rights in the classroom: practical strategies and activities

Courses and webinars

Unless otherwise indicated, professional development activities are only available in English.

The European School Education Platform offers self-paced activities designed to tackle real classroom challenges. Our series of online courses and tutorials can help you get new ideas and equip you with hands-on, actionable strategies for your classroom.

Explore our self-paced professional development activities.

Latest content

Explore our recent content

• News article: New podcast episode: schools as learning organisations 
• News article: The Blue Schools group: connecting Europe through the ocean 
• News article: Educating children about sustainability through STEM 
• News article: eTwinning prize winners: stories behind the awards 
• News article: Learning for sustainability in Europe’s schools: new resources from the European Commission 
• Survey results: Building attractive teaching careers 
• Practice article: Building inclusive and resilient schools for crises 
• Teaching material: Terra Mission: bringing environmental education to young pupils 
• Education Talks: Tackling and preventing cyberbullying in schools

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