<< Background >>The OpenDigCompEdu project aims to accelerate the digital competences of educators in school education from Spain, Romania, Croatia, Greece and Norway towards the sustainable adoption of more online and blended approaches in education through the use of open educational technologies and open education principles. This is necessary for individual, organisational, and institutional levels to enhance their digital readiness, resilience and capacity to withstand emergencies such as COVID19. Under this endeavour, the project will accelerate digital transformation and thenecessary adoption of innovative blended approaches, and target the development of key competences to educators within an open education framework. The new OpenDigCompEdu educators will be open, digital enablers of change and innovation in their countries and regions with new profiles of educators that keep in front of digital content, technologies and practices and mix their in-field competencies with pedagogical values adopting open education. The concept of Digital Competences for Educators are very important within European educational policies. Recent definitions of DigCompEdu are provided in a scientifically sound framework describing what it means for educators to be digitally competent (DigCompEdu: European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (Punie & all 2017) by JRC Science) and in the EU DEAP defined in Sep 2020. The JRC Science group have researched and published the Policy Approaches to Open Education, Case Studies from 28 EU States (OpenEdu Policies) (Inamorato Dos Santos & all, 2017) and the subsequent Policy recommendations on open education in Europe (OpenEdu Policies, 2018). Going open is a process for all involved: institutions, learners and teachers, as well as technological groups creating open education technologies (Open EdTech). It depends on creating both digital and non-digital opportunities to make education more collaborative, transparent and inclusive. Open education needs support from policies, technological development and pedagogical approaches, via a multi-stakeholder approach, that can act systemically to create the change to further advance it in schools and create an “open education ecosystem”. We will build on the momentum created by the pandemic which showed the importance of both digital competences and existing OERs and OEP that can create this vision with the support of Open EdTech.<< Objectives >>The OpenDigEduComp project will serve as a complementary activity to national initiatives providing the common European perspective to develop a European Digital Education Content Framework and a step forward in defining the criterias of a European Digital Skills Certificate (EDSC), both core priorities of EU DEAP 2020.For this, the project will develop detailed courses, incorporate a micro-credential as to improve and validate their digital competences.The OpenDigCompEdu Project Objectives are: 1. To enhance awareness of the need for a digital education ecosystem in European schools.2. To devise and validate the profiles of digitally competent and confident educators within open education, across countries.3. To enhance uptake of open education, open education practices, resources and open digital tools for delivering competence-based teaching.4. To create and validate an understanding of sustainability in education through open education within the framework for open and digital competences for educators.5. To improve achievement and recognition of digital competences for education through e-portfolio and formal learning by introducing OpenDigCompEdu e-portfolio and OpenDigCompEdu MOOC courses for educators. 6. To introduce microcredentials and open badges in open digital competences for school education in the partner countries.7. To enhance collaboration between educators, learners, school leaders, school institutions with education providers, universities, and companies developing open digital tools.The project seeks to learn from the experience of the previous year, but mainly from the joint experience of universities, school governing bodies, and digital educational technology companies that form the diverse partnership.<< Implementation >>The primary task will be the set up of the Conceptual Framework for the application of open and digital competences for educators. This includes the development of a Design Guide and the formulation of design guidelines for Open Digital Competences. To achieve this we'll monitor how schools can use state-of-the-art DigCompEdu and gather inputs. Data will be collected with the Delphi methodology and results will be analysed using SELFIE. That will allow us to set up a roadmap report on OpenDigCompEdu in schools. Then a compendium of best practices, training and resources will be created, establishing specific criteria for European OpenDigCompEdu validation.The partnership will work with the setup of the OpenDigCompEdu e-portfolio, building the group of experts for the OpenDigCompEdu validation, developing the model and criterias of integration of prior digital education experience and integrate the online digital structure for OpenDigCompEdu validation. In parallel we will work on the courses for the OpenDigCompEdu, defining the curricula, the detailed syllabus for each of the five courses and set up the OpenDigCompEdu training program for the open digital competencies for educators.To assure the validation and sustainability of our project results we will be building the regional capacity. OpenDigCompEdu for Educators courses will be enhanced and aligned to meet national specifics, integrating online the OpenDigCompEdu for Educators and start the training of the OpenDigCompEdu facilitators.Finally, we will work on the OpenDigCompEdu for Educators micro-credentials, setting up the quality validation micro-credentials process and the Open Badges and Certificates. The quality validation process includes the designing of the quality assurance standards and the designing of evaluation instruments and periodical progress reports to guide the implementation of the OpenDigCompEdu for educators micro-credential. The Open Badges and Certificates include the definition and the design of the open badges, the set up of the badges and certificates, the user testing and reporting, as well as actions to ensure OpenDigCompEdu sustainability.During the project the communication and project promotion will be continuous and five multiplier events will take place, in every country of the partners.<< Results >>The main result will be an educational program developed for school education, Open Digital Competence Training for School Educators - OpenDigCompEdu Course as a Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) with 5 modules, a certified Micro-credential with all 5 courses on 3 different learning paths, OpenDigCompEdu e-portfolio for educators as an online, open-access and free to use mode structure for Digital Competences e-Assessment and the OpenDigCompEdu Open Badges and Open Certificates. All will be available in EN, RO, HR, ES, EL, NW with at least 40 new OERs in DSC; and 2400 adults trained (2000 online and 400 through blended learning).R1. Conceptual Framework for the application of open and digital competences for educatorsR1.1. Develop a Design Guide and formulate design guidelines for Open Digital CompetencesR1.1.1. State-of-the-art of DigCompEdu in schoolsR1.1.2. Analyse of SELFIE resultsR1.1.3. Data Collection with the Delphi methodology (with result 2)R1.1.4. Roadmap report on OpenDigCompEdu in schools (with result 2)R1.2. Supporting European OpenDigCompEdu validation (Creating a compendium of Best practices, training programmes and resources)R1.2.1. Establishing criterias for European OpenDigCompEdu validation R1.2.2. Creating a compendium of Best practices, training programmes and resourcesR1.2.3 First version of the Conceptual Framework for the application of open and digital competences for educators (to be validated in the result 3 )R1.2.4. Final version of the Conceptual Framework for the application of open and digital competences for educatorsR2. The OpenDigCompEdu e-portfolioR.2.1. Building a Experts Group for DigCompEdu validation R.2.2. Developing a model and criterias of integration of prior digital education experienceR.2.3. Integrating the online digital structure for OpendigComp validationR3. The Open Digital Competences for Educators courses R3.1. Open Digital Competences for Educators curriculaR3.2.Open Digital Competences for Educators Syllabus of 5 courses R3.3. OpenEduComp training program Open Digital competences for Educators - 5 coursesR4. Regional Capacity building and formation for school educators MoodleR4.1. Adapting the OpenDigCompEdu for Educators courses for national specificsR4.2. Integrating online OpenDigCompEdu for EducatorsR4.3. Train the facilitators in OpenDigCompEduR5. OpenDigCompEdu for Educators Microcredential UPRCR5.1. Quality validation for OpenDigCompEdu for Educators Micro-credentialR5.1.1.Design of quality assurance standards for OpenDigCompEdu for Educators Micro-credentialR5.1.2. Design of evaluation instruments and periodical progress reports to guide OpenDigCompEdu for Educators Micro-credential implementationR5.2. OpenDigCompEdu Open Badges and CertificatesR5.2.1. Definition and design of the open badges R5.2.2. Set of OpenDigCompEdu Open Badges and CertificatesR5.2.3. OpenDigCompEdu User-Testing and reportR5.3. OpenDigCompEdu sustainabilityFurther tangible outputs will be produced as part of our dissemination and sustainability activities, blending social media with traditional media promotion and see Key Performance Indicators.