Welcome to the “FERTILE” Project
The project was co-funded under an Erasmus Plus KA2 partnership.
It initiated in February 2022 and ran for 3 years.
The partners continue the “FERTILE” initiative in their organisations and the educational community.
The “FERTILE” project’s core mission was to promote contemporary pedagogies that embrace interdisciplinary learning by integrating Educational Robotics (ER) with Arts towards cultivating Computational Thinking (CT) skills in a blended learning context.
Overview of the Project Results
The “FERTILE” design methodology assists educators in designing Artful ER projects, i.e., interdisciplinary projects of ER and Arts organised in a blended learning context. It triggers the cultivation of 21st-century skills, focusing on students’ computational thinking.
The “FERTILE” community platform supports educators in co-designing Artful ER projects based on the “FERTILE” methodology, and implementing them with their students.
The “FERTILE” training materials provide educators with the necessary means to comprehend and use the “FERTILE” methodology to design Artful ER projects in the “FERTILE” community platform. They are available as Open Educational Resources in English, Greek, Slovak, Czech, and Spanish).
The “FERTILE” training implemented as training events in a blended learning mode for about 250 pre- and in-service teachers and academic educators from the four countries involved in the project.
Recent Dissemination and Sustainability
- Mar 2025, Research Paper – Presentation at the Panhellenic Conference ELOER2025
- Feb 2025 Presentation to an Armenian university delegation
- Nov 2024 Research paper- presentation at the International Conference ITHET2024, Paris, France
- Oct 2024 Research paper- presentation and poster at the 23rd European Conference on e-Learning, Porto, Portugal
- Oct 2024, Keynote at the Trends Conference, OUNL, Heerlen, Netherlands
- Oct 2024, Poster presentation at the Matfyz Connections Conference, Bratislava
- Sep 2024, Research Paper- Presentation at the Conference of the Czech Association for Pedagogical Research, Prague
- Sept 2024, Research Paper- Presentation and Workshop at the 8th Panhellenic Conference “ICT in Education”
Project Coordinator
Athens, GREECE
Valladolid, SPAIN
Madrid, SPAIN
Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
