TASC International piloting of Face to Face grade B – Lisbon, Portugal 

Training Week Lisbon  in Lisbon Marks the Culmination of Grade B 

At the beginning of December, Lisbon hosted an intensive international training week, bringing together trainees from across Europe for the final phase of Grade B in the TASC (Teacher Academy Sustainable Communication) programme. This face-to-face event represents the closing chapter of a virtual and  blended learning journey that has combined European virtual sessions, personal virtual activities trained in the own school environment of the trainer, national-level activities, and collaborative exercises over the months October and November. 

The Lisbon piloting week will focus on deepening skills, attitudes, values and knowledge on nonviolent, restorative and intercultural communication, cooperation and awareness across the five core modules: Human Rights and Values, EU Values and Identity, Non-discrimination and equity, Understanding ourselves and others and dialogue. Participants will engage in interactive workshops, group assignments, and train skills designed to consolidate learning and foster cross-border collaboration. Beyond the formal training, the event emphasizes communication, connection and community, offering opportunities for participants to meet in person, share experiences, and celebrate their progress. 

This international gathering follows earlier national face-to-face sessions, where trainers within the same Community of Practice worked together to strengthen local implementation. In Lisbon, the spotlight shifts to European cooperation, reinforcing the programme’s commitment to inclusive and sustainable communication in education 
practices. 

The week will also include feedback sessions, enabling participants to contribute insights that will help refine future training initiatives. Looking ahead, the next step after Lisbon will be the Grade B assessment, scheduled for January 2026. This online evaluation will mark the completion of Grade B and pave the way for participants to advance toward their European microcredential of grade B. 

TASC’s Physical Kick-Off of A European joint training programme (20 ECTS) on Sustainable Communication Launches in Murcia in Spain. 

After months of collaborative development and feedback cycles from the TASC Teacher Board and the Community of Practice, the first grade of the joint training programme on sustainable communication—Grade A (Initial Grade)—is set to officially launch with a physical kick-off with 42 teachers in Murcia, Spain, from May 20th to May 24th, 2025. 

This event marks the start of the first physical international training experience for in-service and pre-service teachers within the programme. Grade A is a 6 ECTS EU micro-credential, designed to build foundational competences in sustainable communication for both pre-service and in-service teachers. It introduces initial components of the programme’s five core modules: Human Rights and Values, EU Values and Identity, Non-Discrimination and Equity, Understanding Ourselves and Others, and Dialogue.  It also integrates essential digital competences. 

Programme Structure 

While the entire Grade A covers 6 ECTS, the physical training week in Murcia focuses on a 2 ECTS portion of the course, the face-to-face learning path. Six teachers from each of the seven TASC partner countries will come together in 3 transnational communities, fostering non-violent, intercultural and restorative communication and collaborative learning with awareness and reflection in the centre of the communication.  

Following the Murcia training, the programme continues through a blended learning path of one week from 28^th of May till 4^th of June 2025, combining a national physical meeting day and European meeting day with the communities online next to individual online activities. The final phase of grade A consists of a virtual learning path in September 2025, allowing the trainees to deepen their learning independently at their school community and at home. Next to this they meet online in small EU groups. 

Testing Impact and sustainability 

The TASC consortium will assess the impact of the training  of sustainable communication and mobility on participants. TASC aims next to this a long-term goal of shaping a green, inclusive and sustainable European teacher education framework. 

The physical kick-off in Murcia not only launches the programme but also represents a key milestone in the broader mission of TASC: to empower teachers as cornerstones of the society with the competences they need to foster dialogue, equity, and belonging in increasingly complex classrooms in schools across Europe.