CONTEXT AND NEEDSAdaptive tools, including AI-based software in education, are predicted to have a huge potential to empower learners through personalized learning and at the same time a profound impact on educational practices by enabling new ways of teaching. This new and rapidly growing area of education has been identified by researchers and experts as well as several European framework and reports as the key of future learning. Yet it is an area where practitioners and politicians alike lack information and understanding. The EMPOWER2LEARN project derives from an urgent need for strengthening the profiles of the teaching profession and support for educators in the area of personalized learning with ICT, through transnational and explorative (both scientific and practical) approaches. The project partners from Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK are teacher trainer institutions, local authorities and universities that all have a broad network of primary schools teachers/educators and that bring not only their own area of expertise to the project but also the expertise of associated partners.OBJECTIVESThe objectives of the EMPOWER2LEARN project is to: EXPLORE, DEVELOP, PERFORM, EVALUATE AND DISSEMINATE METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED LEARNING WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN BOOST THE COMPETENCIES OF TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS AND EMPOWER ALL STUDENTS IN THEIR LEARNING.More specifically this means to: -Explore and analyse existing studies and best practices, useful digital tools and pedagogical models in primary schools EU-countries related to personalized learning -Develop an analysis and design framework that will be used to design (and redesign) effective CPD-activities supporting personalized learning -Perform and evaluate CPD activities with teachers in each country -Collate and disseminate digital resources for personalized learning to a wider target group within and beyond the partnership-Create synergies between research and innovation and promoting new technologies as drivers of improvements in education-Initiate international cooperation and strengthen the European dimension in partner organizationsPARTICIPANTS AND ACTIVITIESMore than 100 ICT educators, researchers and policymakers and 400 K-12 teachers will take part in activities that will be disseminated and have the potential to reach and benefit a minimum of 5000 K-12 teachers and ICT educators, 60000 students and 500 policymakers across the partner countries.Tasks have been organized into 4 WP:s (1. PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 2. PROMISING PRACTICES , 3. CPD-ACTIVITIES ON PERSONALIZED LEARNING WITH ICT, 4. EMPOWER2LEARN TOOLKIT ) and distributed democratically among the partners on the basis of their expertise. They all include intellectual outputs (IO1: ONLINE RESEARCH COLLECTION, IO2: PROMISING PRACTICES, IO3: REDESIGN OF CDP ACTIVITIES, IO4: EMPOWER2LEARN TOOLKIT) that will give both new and complementary input to the entire field of ICT-supported personalized learning in education.RESULTS AND IMPACTAt a general level EMPOWER2LEARN is expected to result in enhanced knowledge how different technologies, including those using adaptive learning and artificial intelligence, support personalization among teachers, educational institutions, school leaders, policy makers and researchers as well as innovative and efficient practice for educators and teachers within and outside of the participating countries. The international cooperation will create expertise and interchange of insights and methods as well as facilitate a validation of methods for ICT supported personalized learning in education, training and youth systems on a regional, national and European level. At the same time it will contribute to more positive attitudes towards European collaboration and shared European values. The integration of the EMPOWER2LEARN-outputs in regional/national/international policy frameworks and reports is expected to lead to changes in national curricula and impact the modernization of European educational systems, increasing the quality and social inclusion in education. Ultimately, EMPOWER2LEARN is expected to impact the learning outcomes and development opportunities of ALL students, through a higher presence of personalized learning with ICT in European classrooms.All these results and impacts are in line with the Erasmus+ programme priorities as well as the one stated in the Paris Declaration from 2015, as differentiation and personalization can contribute to reduce disparities in learning outcomes affecting learners with disadvantaged background.