Final Meeting of TAP-TS: Reflecting and Looking Ahead

1. Juli 2025

After three years of collaboration, innovation, and dialogue, the Final Meeting of TAP-TS took place in Dresden from 3^rd to 5^th of June; and brought together TAP-TS partner institutions to reflect on the project journey for future sustainability of the key project outputs. Held in a spirit of reflection and forward-looking action, the meeting served as both a conclusion and a catalyst – celebrating achievements while exploring future directions for embedding sustainability deeply and meaningfully in Higher and School Education.

TAP-TS, Teacher Academy Project – Teaching Sustainability, is one of the first Erasmus+ Teacher Academies, launched in 2022. TAP-TS aims to strengthen European pre-service and in-service primary and secondary school teachers’ competences for teaching sustainability, with a focus on environmental sustainability, social and linguistic inclusion, digitality, entrepreneurship, and pedagogical approaches to teach sustainability with hands-on, learner-centered, activity-oriented OERs.

PH Wien was co-leading Work Package 2 that aimed to co-design, pilot and validate 7 Learning and Teaching Packages. Part of PH Wien team were Florian Danhel (K:MID & DinaLab), Klaus Himpsl-Gutermann, Elena Revyakina, Petra Szucsich and Martin Sankofi (K:MID). During the Final Meeting in Dresden, Klaus Himpsl-Gutermann and Elena Revyakina led a workshop on Designing Learning and Teaching Materials for Teaching Sustainability, and together with all authors of LTPs organised hands-on workshops for the international guests of the Event. The highlight for this session was a presentation by school pupils of their sustainability project inspired by Enterpreneuriship Sustainability Education (LTP 7). Here are a few highlights from the workshop in pictures:

Gathering Diverse Voices Across Europe

The meeting convened representatives from eleven partner institutions – a secondary school, teacher education institutions, civil society organisation, technology partners, and Project Advisory Group members – and invited teacher educators who have been at the forefront of integrating sustainability into their teaching and training practices. Participants came from across Europe, and Mozambique – each bringing unique insights, experiences, and pedagogical innovations that have been shaping the project’s collaborative journey. Among the participants was Monika Gerbavsits (K:MID), the coordinator at PH Wien for Digital Literacy Seminars for teachers in Vienna.

This diverse gathering fostered rich conversations about how sustainability is interpreted and implemented across different contexts, and reaffirmed the value of working transnationally to develop adaptable and inclusive approaches.

Showcasing Achievements

The meeting featured presentations and showcases of the project’s key outputs, including:

Seven Learning & Teaching Packages as Open Educational Resources – a digital bank of resources, lesson plans, and reflective activities for teacher educators, teachers and student teachers, that can be adapted and implemented in the classroom. Now also LTP 2 Digitality and Sustainability being fully translated into German and available on LTP 2 Moodle Page (at the end of each Unit).
10 TAP-TS Courses – Online Workshops, Hybrid Active Learning Events, and Summer and Autumn Schools
Quality Assurance Report with the key findings on TAP-TS (published soon)

Based on the presentations from the Quality Report, it was inspiring and reassuring to hear how teachers’ participation in the project had transformed their teaching and influenced their approaches to teaching sustainability, and made them feel more comfortable in trying interdisciplinary collaboration and co-teaching. As one participant noted:

This project has made my lessons different. I use this all the time. I have learned more through this project than I have in the past ten years.

Dialogue, Reflection, and Looking Ahead

The final meeting also provided structured space for critical reflection and networking. Participants discussed the challenges encountered – such as varying policy frameworks and institutional barriers – as well as the creative strategies that helped navigate them.

Encouragingly, several partners expressed interest in building on the project’s foundation through new collaborations and Erasmus+ follow-up initiatives. Discussions also pointed to the importance of continuing cross-border exchanges to nurture a pan-European community of sustainability-minded educators.

A Shared Commitment

Above all, the final meeting reaffirmed the collective commitment of the partners to empower teachers as changemakers. TAP-TS has shown that when teacher educators work together across borders, disciplines, and perspectives, powerful learning experiences can emerge.

As the project has formally closed, we hope that its achievements and learnings will continue to shape educational contexts. Sustainability is not a destination but a journey—and we are thankful that we have been on this journey together.

Feel free to explore the photos from the event, and the wonderful resources in the area of Education for Sustainability on TAP-TS Platform.