"The PULS+ project aims to enable the entire German-speaking region (D, Ö, Südtirol, CH) to develop schools, education and learning spaces that are up-to-date and meet the requirements of the 21st century.In the course of 3 years, it has developed a certified, well-founded training and further education in the form of two interlinked or interlocked university courses. The courses are offered by the University of Innsbruck (basic course) and the University of Art in Linz (continuing education course) in cooperation. The target group is all professionals from the entire German-speaking area who are involved in school construction and learning space development (teachers, architects, experts from the respective offices and authorities).The basic training (12 ECTS credits) focuses on professionalisation in one's own professional and content-related field of activity. Participants in the advanced training (15 ECTS credits) are given the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary projects and processes in a professional and outward-looking manner. Both courses were successfully piloted between May 2018 and May 2020 in addition to project funding. The broad impact on the targeted professional audience was remarkable. A total of 33 professionals from administration (schools, municipalities, state offices, specialised authorities), planning (architecture, spatial planning, open space design, project management) and education (social work, school development, organisational development) from all nations involved in the Erasmus+ project successfully participated in the two course programmes. Well over a hundred students were involved in the newly established university courses via the ""REALLABORE"" module. The offer is currently unique in the European area, meanwhile with charisma beyond the German-speaking countries.Two further innovative project results are publications that deal with the topic of learning space development and school construction from different perspectives. While the growing handbook approaches the topic from the perspective of pedagogy with various contributions, the growing learning book takes the perspective of architectural practice. Precisely because of the synergy effects due to the complementarity of the contents, it was decided to unite both publications under one roof. The findings from the Covid 19 pandemic also led to the decision not to publish the publications in printed form, but on the specially created digital platform - Notes on Architecture and Education - of a publishing house (www.nab-notizenarchitekturbildung.net). The contents are accessible to a broad audience at any time and guarantee topicality in the international discourse through their continuous expandability with new contributions. The open, digital PULS+ cooperation and learning platform (www.kooperation.pulsverbund.eu) is an innovative, virtual networking and information portal that does not yet exist in this form in Europe or in the transatlantic, English-speaking world. The goal is a long-term, international and multi-professional linking of the three disciplines of education, architecture and administration on a common digital portal in order to contribute to a sustainable European educational landscape. Starting in German-speaking countries, a networking platform was created that also gives interested laypersons the opportunity to obtain well-founded information on the topic of learning and space via various media. School building consultants/learning space developers can register so that they can be contacted by interested municipalities for participatory process support, and an interactive forum invites exchange.The PULS+ School Building Atlas is an interactive, growing database (www.atlas.pulsverbund.eu) in which schools are presented with their pedagogical concept, their goals and the current spatial substance. At the same time, it is divided into spatial and pedagogical modules that can be called up as individual building blocks. The uniqueness lies in the fact that interested parties can either obtain comprehensive information about individual schools or search for specific current individual modules and then find a multitude of answers to related questions.Beyond these intended goals, within the conducive atmosphere of the strategic partnership, in addition to the project results described above, a Master's degree programme in architecture with a focus on educational construction was established at Alanus University (Germany) in cooperation with the City of Düsseldorf, two further Erasmus projects were successfully applied for to expand the subject area, the PULS+ network tripled in size and the results were presented at numerous specialist meetings and conferences. In addition, new participatory processes were integrated into numerous school construction projects and influence was exerted on school construction guidelines in some of the participating countries."

"One of the greatest challenges of our time is to help children and youngsters in the development of their media maturity and digital literacy. Technology is evolving every day. Parents and (pre-school) teachers are confronted with the fact that the children and young people in their care are using technology and are moving in virtual worlds that the adults responsible for them can hardly comprehend.However, the question arises HOW they are using it, whether they are able to digest the contents, and whether they are aware of the dangers and pitfalls lurking in the digital world and how to deal with these at different age levels.In its resolution ""Shaping digital education policy"" of 25 March 2021, the European Parliament suggests to ""introduce digital technologies in a learner-focused, age-appropriate and development-oriented way"" insisting that ""digital learning strategies need to take into account research on the effects that early use of digital technology may have on the development of young children"".This strongly resonates with values and beliefs shared among all partners in this project. At the end of their school career, all pupils should be able to use the full range of analogue and digital media properly for their own education, participation in civil society and the labour market, whereas the timing and form of using digital media in education should be closely aligned with the developmental phases of children. Therefore, parents, teachers and researchers have joined their resources, and aim to work towards helping children and youngsters become resilient and media mature citizens who can make their own informed choices on HOW they use digital technology.The project will result in five tangible results: a website, a framework curriculum, school policy guidelines, trainings for teachers and webinars for parents.Using the wide dissemination reach of formal and associated partners, the project results will have a Europe-wide impact on the target groups."