On 22 and 23 April 2026, the ESLTI partnership held its Training of Trainers session in Málaga, hosted by the two Spanish partners, FECCOO and Asociación de Cooperación y Desarrollo Internacional. The activity brought together expert trainers from the partner organisations to prepare for the next phase of the project: the delivery of national training […]
The ESLTI project has reached an important milestone with the completion of the Competence Profile for Leadership Teams. This is one of the first key outputs of the project and will serve as a basis for the next stages of work, including the development of the School Team Leadership Guide for Sustainable Innovations and the
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Inkubator Savinjske regije d.o.o. presented the ESLTI project to members of its incubator, introducing the project’s main goals and upcoming activities. ESLTI focuses on strengthening the capacity of school leadership teams to plan, manage, and sustain innovation, so that new ideas, digital tools, and modern teaching approaches become a natural and long-term part of everyday
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Insights from Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Spain show strong agreement on what makes innovation last in schools. Innovation is not described as novelty or technology alone. It is seen as purposeful change that improves learning, inclusion, organisation, or wellbeing and continues to matter over time. School leaders outline common obstacles that make sustaining innovation difficult. One
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ESLTI has collected input from school leaders in Slovenia through interviews and an online focus group (22 December 2025). The aim was to understand what helps innovation last in schools and what challenges leaders see coming next. Leaders described sustained innovation as something that becomes part of daily practice and continues after a project ends.
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On January 20, 2026, an online focus group titled “Competences for Sustainable Innovation in Schools” brought together 18 members of school leadership teams from across the country, including principals, deputy principals, senior teachers, and innovation coordinators. The discussion highlighted a shared understanding that sustainable innovation is not a one-off initiative but a long-term process embedded
On 27 November 2025, the team of the Federación de Enseñanza de Comisiones Obreras held a focus group in Spain with 25 education professionals. The group included headteachers and teachers from schools in Málaga, Madrid, Santander, León, and Cádiz. The discussion focused on one main question: what helps schools sustain innovation over time. Participants agreed
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Work on the School Team Leadership Guide for Sustainable Innovations is now well underway. This guide will offer practical support to school leadership teams who want to plan, introduce, and sustain innovation in a consistent and realistic way. The first step in this process is the creation of the Competence Profile for School Innovators, a
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On 23 October 2025, the partners of the Empowering School Leadership Teams for Innovation (ESLTI) project met in Sofia for a one-day kick-off meeting, marking the official start of the collaboration between organisations from Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Spain. The meeting focused on aligning the team around the core aim of the project: strengthening the capacity
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