In November 2025, the European Foundation launched its ETF New Learning Award 2026, a competition aiming to collect and recognise innovative and creative teaching and learning approaches and resources helping learners to develop key competences across subjects and in real-life contexts.
We have received more than 450 submissions, in the fields of formal and non-formal education as well as adult learning, sent by individual educators and teams from schools, training centres, companies, and learning communities.
We are happy to announce the finalists selected by the international jury:
| Armenia | Community renewal Lab | Ararat state regional college |
| Belgium | Education, Entrepreneurship and Encounters @ Campus Corso VET Center | Campus Corso Leuven |
| Estonia | Navicup Location-Based Learning Ecosystem for Schools, Museums and Lifelong Learning Communities | Navicup OÜ |
| Georgia | Theatre and Simulation Methods: Replicable Tools for Integrated Competence Development | Baghdati Municipality Village Vartsikhe Public School |
| Germany | Cooperative play | Bad Hamburg FIS |
| Ireland | Building a Greener Future | Organisation Fifty Shades Greener |
| Jordan | Masahati Student Clubs | Al Aman Fund for the Future of Orphans |
| Serbia | Back to the nature | Elementary school ,,Vera Blagojević" |
| Ukraine | Become an Agent of Social Changes – a digital simulation game for developing key competences through experiential learning | A consortium of Union for the developmnet of education and science |
These finalists will be invited to an International Learning Innovation Event in Brussels, in May 2026, where three practices will be selected for the ETF New Learning Award 2026.
The International Jury was impressed by the wealth and breadth of innovative practices that were submitted for their consideration. To recognise the value of this work and to allow wide sharing of know-how and peer learning, the Jury reserves the right to invite some of these practices for including them into the ETF Innovative Teaching and Learning Database. These innovators will earn an ETF Open Badge and will gain visibility through the ETF Community of Innovative Educators.
More about the Award
This award aimed to give visibility and allow peer learning among education practitioners and policy makers looking for innovative teaching and learning practices on cross-curricula, cross-subject, integrated approach to the development of key competences. Such teaching methods put learning outcomes in the centre and integrate them into the “canvas” of education and training curricula, designing learning experiences which link learning with real-life contexts, promoting inclusive, future-ready, and competence-based education systems.
In line with the Union of skills goals, and supporting European key competences for lifelong learning, this award addressed the talents and creativity of educators designing and implementing teaching and learning practices that integrate or combine learning outcomes for at least two of the following key competences: digital, citizenship, entrepreneurial, STEAM competences, as well as personal, social and learning to learn competence.
Who is behind the initiative?
The call is initiated by European Training Foundation (ETF) in cooperation with partner organizations: European Association of Institutes of Vocational Training (EVBB), European Vocational Training Association (EVTA), European Forum of Technical and Vocational Training (EfVET) and Lifelong Learning Platform - European Civil Society for Education (LLLP).
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