Capacity building of education employers through the promotion of teacher induction programmes

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortage of teachers has put great challenges on a wide range of European Member States and its education systems. Studies have shown that one of the reasons for this shortage of qualified teachers roots in the lack of adequate induction programs, resulting in difficulties to attract and retain young academics in the teaching profession in European schools. Aiming to tackle this challenge and establish a supportive environment for young teachers entering the teaching profession, this project will contribute to the strengthening and further development of the European social dialogue on the basis of lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic by underpinning the principles enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights. More specifically, in this manner, the project addresses the following objectives of the call: 1) Tackling the employment, social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, and the particular role of social partners in this respect 2) Quality of work, working conditions and health and safety at work 3) Digitalisation . Against the backdrop of these objectives, the project assembles as practitioners 9 entities, including education employers, providers and teacher training institutions from six different EU member states. They will support the implementation of the three cornerstone conferences the project foresees to take place in Portugal, Hungary and Belgium. The first two cornerstone conferences will be dedicated to the mapping and exchange of induction practices amongst project partners and invited guests from both the European and international level. The third and final conference will aim to showcase and disseminate the the 4 outputs generated out of the findings gained during the project (a survey, a report of the best practices of teacher induction models and therewith bound guidelines of action as well as policy recommendations).