Discover innovative teaching practices to engage learners in transitions
After some examples of various Blended Intensive Programs (BIP) within the frame of the European Network of Learning and Teaching in Agriculture and Rural Development (ENTER), we are happy to announce the launch of a new Erasmus+ offer: a Blended Intensive Program about Innovative teaching practices to engage learners in transitions.
According to a survey carried out in March 2023 (OpinionWay survey for Ademe, Le dialogue intergénérationnel sur l’environnement, survey of 15–25 year-olds), 79% of french young people aged 15 to 25 say they attach great importance to environmental issues and express their desire to understand these challenges, which they believe will affect their entire lives.
The term ‘transition’ is a key issue for young people. ‘transition’ is both ambiguous and engaging. It usually refers to the idea of moving from one state to another, regardless of whether the change is intended or not. It can be used to describe a linear, gradual process or, on the contrary, a number of radical transformations.
Numerous reports highlight the ambiguity and contradictions in young people’s relationship with the future: optimistic on an individual level and about technological development, but pessimistic on a global level and about environmental issues.
It is interesting to look at the school form in terms of supporting learners. Schooling can be defined as a social relationship between a teacher and a pupil. It is a pedagogical relationship that establishes a specific time (school hours, recess, study), a specific space (the school, the classroom and its organisation: rows of tables, the platform, the blackboard) and rules (immobility, silence, listening, work).
To what extent is a transformation of the school form necessary in order to teach and learn to live in a complex world in transition, in order to co-construct with learners their power to act, their empowerment?
Our BIP invites international students to discover and explore innovative teaching practices to engage learners in transitions, especially in the broad land-based sectors but not only.
It’s open to all students, future European teachers to support together a new generation of young people aware and actively involved in shaping their future.
Main contents:
- Learning time in and out of the classroom,
- Project-based teaching with multidisciplinary approaches,
- Innovative teaching methods such as the flipped classroom and the flexible classroom,
- The development of psychosocial skills,
- Mobilising learners’ attention, concentration, commitment, etc,
- Education for the future, with forward-looking approaches such as design fiction…
- The role of farms in agricultural establishments as training aids,
Engaging learners with transitions means:
- learning to adapt to what is already there or to what is inescapable;
- learning to become the author, individually and collectively, of the desired transformations;
- learning to project oneself into an uncertain world, to imagine the scenarios of a desirable future;
- appropriating the knowledge that helps to think and act, to become a competent professional but also a responsible individual committed to active citizenship specific to the 21st century;
- learning to commit to a training path;
- learning to emancipate oneself from determinisms and ready-made thinking.
You could benefit from the course…
- if you are a student from one of the ENTER-partners. There is place for about 20 international students (+ counselors)
- if you are interested in innovative teaching, handling complex issues, making connections between people and perspectives and reflection on your personal and professional development
- if you are open to try new ways of thinking
- if you are willing to cooperate and build bridges
- if you are willing and able to work in English
| A. Online part | B. On-site part |
| Getting to know each other | time for sharing on the concept of transition with games, workshops, discussions …. |
| Exploring young people’s relationship with the future: What exactly do we know about young people’s visions of the future? How can we explain their paradoxical dimensions? Have these visions of the future changed in recent years? Are young people more concerned than before? How do these visions of the future reveal current or future social changes? | Discover innovative tools: Fresco of pedagogical innovation, intercultural dynamics, the flexible classroom… |
| Introduction to the theme of educational innovation and concept of transitions | Excursion to a VET school as pedagogical example |
| Presentation of one of your learning situations in your previous school life experience |
The dates for the virtual meetings of the preparation phase
- First evening: Thursday 19 February 2026, 18.30 – 20.00 CET
- Second evening: Monday 9 March 2026, 18.30 – 20.00 CET
The whole course of the blended intensive programme (BIP) is equivalent to 4 ECTS and consists of all the following parts (A,B):
A) the preparation ONLINE phase
B) the face-to-face summer school at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de formation de l’Enseignement agricole (ENSFEA) in Toulouse, France, from the 16th to 20th of March, 2026
The BIP is free. There are no course fees, plus there will be an allowance to pay for travel, accommodation and subsistence from EU funds as long as you complete the necessary documentation at your home institution.
Where do I get more information, who will I apply with?
Get in touch with M.Marion DEMAY (relations-internationales@ensfea.fr)
