European Innovative Teaching Award: European Ceremony
The European Ceremony will celebrate the 98 laureates of the 2022 edition of the European Innovative Teaching Award.
The European Innovative Teaching Award is a European Commission initiative launched in 2021, which aims to highlight and reward the work of teachers and schools, and to showcase innovative teaching practices.
The initiative forms part of the broader European Education Area initiative and awards successfully finalised projects funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
It provides an opportunity to highlight the benefits of European cooperation in education through transnational activities.
The European Ceremony, which took place in a hybrid mode, celebrated the 98 laureates of the 2022 edition of the Award.
This year, the Award was organised around the theme ‘Learning Together, promoting creativity and sustainability’, with three sub-topics, namely ‘Creativity’, ‘Inclusion’ and ‘Sustainability’. The theme connects the Innovative Teaching Award to the New European Bauhaus initiative of the Commission.
Within these 98 projects,
- 20 projects represent the ‘early childhood education and care’ category
- 26 projects represent the ‘primary education’ category
- 27 projects represent the ‘secondary education’ category
- 25 projects represent the ‘vocational education and training (VET) schools’ category
Programme
Moderator: Mared Gwyn, Communications expert, political commentator and event moderator
Biography
Mared is a communications expert, event moderator and political commentator. She has five years of experience in EU public affairs and frequently reports from Brussels for the BBC.
As a moderator Mared uses her breadth of information to challenge established ideas and spark insightful debates. Her goal is to put audiences at ease and to empower everyone to speak their minds.
Mared is passionate about inspiring young people from all backgrounds to contribute to policy debates. She speaks native Welsh and English, is fluent in Spanish and French, and speaks basic Portuguese and Italian.
Biography
Mariya Gabriel is the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport. Under her leadership, the new Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, and the cultural strand of Creative Europe programmes (2021-2027) will be defined and implemented.
Between 2017 and 2019, Mariya Gabriel was European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. She proposed the new Digital Europe programme, worked on EU Strategy on AI, disinformation online, cybersecurity and launched the EuroHPC strategy. She has extensively engaged with external EU partners to enhance digital cooperation, in particular with the Western Balkans and Africa. She was elected as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009, 2014 and 2019. Mariya Gabriel is First Vice-President of the European People’s Party (EPP), and, since 2012, Vice-President of EPP Women.
Commissioner Gabriel is a board member of the United Nations youth programme Generation Unlimited (GenU). She has been ranked among the 50 most influential women in Europe in the field of cybersecurity by the leading European cybersecurity magazine SC Media UK (2019).
Commissioner Gabriel is also known for her involvement in the fight for gender equality. Among others, she received the prestigious Italian prize “Golden Apple” for highest achievements for women. At the European Parliament, she was awarded twice “MEP of the year” – in 2016 for the Development category, and in 2013 for the Gender Equality category.
In November 2020, Commissioner Gabriel received the Annual Award of the Vienna Economic Forum “Partner of the Year 2020” for contribution to the economic development, rewarding Ms Gabriel’s vision of a European knowledge strategy comprising the European Education Area, the European Research Area and the new Digital Education Action Plan.
She holds a Master’s degree in political sciences and international relations from the Institute of Political Studies (Bordeaux, FR) and a Bachelor’s degree in Bulgarian and French Languages from “Paisii Hilendarski” University (Plovdiv, BG).
Biography
Mared is a communications expert, event moderator and political commentator. She has five years of experience in EU public affairs and frequently reports from Brussels for the BBC.
As a moderator Mared uses her breadth of information to challenge established ideas and spark insightful debates. Her goal is to put audiences at ease and to empower everyone to speak their minds.
Mared is passionate about inspiring young people from all backgrounds to contribute to policy debates. She speaks native Welsh and English, is fluent in Spanish and French, and speaks basic Portuguese and Italian.
Biography
Mared is a communications expert, event moderator and political commentator. She has five years of experience in EU public affairs and frequently reports from Brussels for the BBC.
As a moderator Mared uses her breadth of information to challenge established ideas and spark insightful debates. Her goal is to put audiences at ease and to empower everyone to speak their minds.
Mared is passionate about inspiring young people from all backgrounds to contribute to policy debates. She speaks native Welsh and English, is fluent in Spanish and French, and speaks basic Portuguese and Italian.
Biography
Mared is a communications expert, event moderator and political commentator. She has five years of experience in EU public affairs and frequently reports from Brussels for the BBC.
As a moderator Mared uses her breadth of information to challenge established ideas and spark insightful debates. Her goal is to put audiences at ease and to empower everyone to speak their minds.
Mared is passionate about inspiring young people from all backgrounds to contribute to policy debates. She speaks native Welsh and English, is fluent in Spanish and French, and speaks basic Portuguese and Italian.
Biography
Mariya Gabriel is the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport. Under her leadership, the new Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, and the cultural strand of Creative Europe programmes (2021-2027) will be defined and implemented.
Between 2017 and 2019, Mariya Gabriel was European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. She proposed the new Digital Europe programme, worked on EU Strategy on AI, disinformation online, cybersecurity and launched the EuroHPC strategy. She has extensively engaged with external EU partners to enhance digital cooperation, in particular with the Western Balkans and Africa. She was elected as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009, 2014 and 2019. Mariya Gabriel is First Vice-President of the European People’s Party (EPP), and, since 2012, Vice-President of EPP Women.
Commissioner Gabriel is a board member of the United Nations youth programme Generation Unlimited (GenU). She has been ranked among the 50 most influential women in Europe in the field of cybersecurity by the leading European cybersecurity magazine SC Media UK (2019).
Commissioner Gabriel is also known for her involvement in the fight for gender equality. Among others, she received the prestigious Italian prize “Golden Apple” for highest achievements for women. At the European Parliament, she was awarded twice “MEP of the year” – in 2016 for the Development category, and in 2013 for the Gender Equality category.
In November 2020, Commissioner Gabriel received the Annual Award of the Vienna Economic Forum “Partner of the Year 2020” for contribution to the economic development, rewarding Ms Gabriel’s vision of a European knowledge strategy comprising the European Education Area, the European Research Area and the new Digital Education Action Plan.
She holds a Master’s degree in political sciences and international relations from the Institute of Political Studies (Bordeaux, FR) and a Bachelor’s degree in Bulgarian and French Languages from “Paisii Hilendarski” University (Plovdiv, BG).
Biography
Sofia Fors is the founder of the Copenhagen based architecture studio, Fors Arkitekter. She founded Fors Arkitekter with the aim of bringing nature, buildings and people together in a higher unity. The studio gained recognition early on after winning the two-stage competition for the Maatullin School and Kindergarten, currently under construction in Helsinki. The studio works with the belief that we can create more synergy and cohesion in architecture by working with building and landscape together across all scales. Their work ranges from small pavilions and transformations to large public buildings. In all their work they are committed to create generous buildings and landscapes that move us, last for generations and are strongly rooted in its context.