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Fifteen countries are going to take part in iTEC cycle 3 pilot activities!

More information will be published soon the map on activities implemented in each country and opportunities of collaboration with teachers from all over Europe. 

Click on the map and discover which countries are carrying out iTEC pilots and how!
School pilots overview School pilots overview

iTEC cycles

The iTEC school pilots will be delivered in five overlapping 18-month cycles. Each cycle includes the following steps:

  • Scenario development including:
    • Desk research and stakeholder surveys
    • Scenario workshop with partners resulting in selection of 20 mini-scenarios
    • Online ranking of mini-scenarios resulting in 8-10 detailed scenarios
  • Participatory design (PD) sessions with a focus group of advanced teachers. The sessions work on the detailed scenarios identified in the previous phase turning them into six prototypes.
  • Pre-pilots with a focus group of regular teachers to test the prototypes. After the pre-piloting, the iTEC partners will take a decision on which ones of the tested prototypes will be used in the large-scale piloting.
  • Large-scale pilots are prepared and then implemented.
  • Data and feedback from the pilot schools is gathered from the processes throughout each cycle and provided at the end for analysis (resulting in an evaluation report).

School piloting

Participating countries

The iTEC school pilots will be carried out in the following 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia and Turkey.

Furthermore, some other European countries are involved through SMART, Promethean and iTEC Associate Partners. These countries may be different in each cycle.

School pilot schedule

Here you see the schedule for the five cycles:

 

Participatory Design sessions

Pre-pilots

Large-scale pilots: preparation

Large-scale pilots: implementation

Evaluation report

Cycle 1February 2011Apr – May 2011Jun – Jul 2011Sep – Dec 2011February 2012
Cycle 2June 2011Oct – Nov 2011Jan – Feb 2012Mar – Jun 2012July 2012
Cycle 3January 2012Apr – May 2012Jun – Jul 2012Sep –Dec 2012February 2013
Cycle 4June 2012Oct – Nov 2012Jan – Feb 2013Mar – Jun 2013July 2013
Cycle 5January 2013Apr – May 2013Jun – Jul 2013Sep – Dec 2013February 2014

 
National coordinators

The national coordinators are appointed by the Ministries of Education. There are two different roles:

  • National Pedagogical Coordinator (NPC): a NPC is responsible at national level for the overall piloting in schools which includes organising Participatory Design sessions, selecting and supporting pre-pilot and pilot schools, and overseeing evaluation data collection and case studies.
  • National Technical Coordinator (NTC): a NTC is responsible for setting up the technical conditions for pilots in schools.

For information on each country, please click here.