HYBRID TEACHING 

The first multiplier event took place on November 28th, 2003, at the premises of ATEC, in Portugal and brought the first ideas on the development of the Hybrid Teaching Project. During this first gathering, besides getting to know eachother, the Partners established the project’s main guidelines, key tasks, and visual identity.

The second Partners’ Meeting took place at Flensburg University in Germany, in April 2024. During this meeting, partners reviewed the project’s progress and exchanged ideas, experiences, and insights on hybrid learning and tecahing — key elements for the successful development of the training modules.

In October 2024, the Partners met at the premises of NHL Stenden in Leuuwarden, The Netherlands. Badges and Modules were presented, discussed and improved. 

In the first days of October 2025,  the four partners entities gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, hosted by Vilnius University, for the final project meeting. During the event, each partner presented the training modules developed throughout the project. The session was open to the teaching and training commmunity of all partner organisatins, who joined both on-site and online. Participants had the opportunity to experience the modules firsthand and explore how these innovative tools can enhance hybrid and blended learning in vocational education. The meeting concluded with a discussion on the next steps to ensure that the outcomes of Hybrid Teaching Elevated continue to support educators and trainers across Europe.

Learning Innovation Summit is an annual event organized by ATEC to promote pedagogical innovation in vocational education and training. The event brings together teachers, trainers, and educators eager to explore new approaches to learning. The 4th edition, held on November 30th, 2024, focused on the theme “In the Age of Artificial Intelligence. - the role of teachers and learners”. As part of the program, Andrejus Račkovskis, project manager, presented the advantages and potential of Hybrid Teaching.

The event also featured a hands-on lab, where participants had the opportunity to experiment innovative tools for creating hybrid learning experiences.

From 17 to 19 March 2025, the Hochschultage Berufliche Bildung took place in Paderborn (Germany). The Hochschultage Berufliche Bildung are held every two years in Germany at different locations with over 1,000 participants and are unique in Germany in this form and size.

The Higher Education Days for Vocational Education offered a variety of table sessions, one of which was organised by the vocational education cluster of the Schleswig-Holstein state programme ‘Future Schools in the Digital Age’. The content focused on the development of digital competence in teaching and learning processes in vocational education and training, with a particular emphasis on teacher training and continuing education. The modular training concept of Hybrid Elevate was presented as a practical example of contemporary and future-oriented teacher training and continuing education.

Once again, biat was present at the Hochschultage 2025 in Paderborn. Nikolaus Steffen and Axel Grimm contributed to the topic ‘DigCompEdu in teacher training in the federal states and the resulting opportunities and challenges in commercial and technical teacher training’.

The ‘European Framework for the Digital Competence of Teachers’ (DigCompEdu) was published by the EU in 2017. In December 2021, the KMK adopted the guidance document on ‘Teaching and learning in the digital world: Supplement to the Strategy of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs “Education in the digital world”’. This document states and stipulates (ibid., p. 24):

 ‘Based on DigCompEdu, the federal states will develop, if they have not already done so, a state-specific competence framework [for the initial and continuing training of teachers’ digital competences] that takes into account the specific conditions of the respective state as well as national and international compatibility, and will update this framework on an ongoing basis.’

Anyone looking around the federal states will notice that, despite the KMK requirement, DigCompEdu has hardly found its way into teacher training and continuing education. It should also be noted that DigCompEdu has not yet been discussed within the BAG or at its specialist conferences in recent years.

This conference paper began with a brief presentation of DigCompEdu, i.e. its 22 competences in six dimensions and six phases, from ‘beginner’ to ‘pioneer’. An insight into the state programme ‘Future Schools in the Digital Age’ of the state of Schleswig-Holstein was provided and the relevance of DigCompEdu for this programme was discussed.

Furthermore, DigCompEdu was specified in terms of the objectives of a current Erasmus+ project on hybrid learning. Subsequently, DigCompEdu was discussed specifically with regard to its integration into commercial and technical teacher training and further education. The aim, initiated by the BAG, was to form a cross-state community of practice on DigCompEdu in order to achieve the relevant KMK objectives.

At the fifth edition of the Learning Innovation Summit, ATEC’s flagship event on educational innovation, Pedro Vasconcelos, member of the Hybrid Teaching Project, led an inspiring Learning Lab titled “Hybrid Teaching in High Definition – The Hybrid Teaching Elevated Project.”

In this hands-on session, accessible technology was turned into pedagogical superpowers. Participants discovered how to use OBS Studio to deliver high-quality live broadcasts, repurpose their smartphones as alternative cameras, and design immersive visual experiences using multiple screens.

The session also unveiled the creative potential of Microsoft PowerToys and demonstrated how the right lighting setup can transform any class — even without high-end gear.

Learning Innovation Summit took place on October, 11th, in the northern city of Maia in Portugal.