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School Management for the School of the Future is an education for principals and persons who, along with principals, participate in school management, as part of the activities of the Slavonika Regional Competence Center 5.1 project.

During the education, several workshops were held with the active participation of participants under the leadership of Igor Štavlić.

In order to encourage the successful implementation of New Opportunities for Adults (Upskilling Pathways), the European Commission organized online mutual learning workshops "Upskilling Pathways (UP Labs)".

The first online workshop, held from January 19 to 21, 2021, was attended by 7 EU member states - Estonia, Croatia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Spain.

Members of the Croatian delegation were: Davorka Schmidt (Ministry of Science and Education), Nikola Stopfer (Ministry of Science and Education), Dario Baron (Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy), Višnja Rajić (University of Zagreb Faculty of Teacher Education), Antonela Šimunović (Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education), Ivana Drobac Kern (Croatian Employment Agency), Igor Štavlić (IGOR, Lifelong Learning Center) and national expert Marija Pavkov.

During the online workshops, the current state of implementation of "Upskilling Pathways" in EU member states was presented, a presentation of support for policy makers for the implementation of "Upskilling Pathways" and examples of good practice were exchanged. National approaches to the implementation of "Upskilling Pathways" were worked on in national and mixed working groups.

As part of our project "More innovations" 2020-1-HR01-KA104-077207, within the framework of the ERASMUS+ program, key activity 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals, Igor Štavlić chose and attended the structured course Innovative Approaches to Teaching lasting five days.

The structured course was held from August 17 to 21, 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic. The host institution was ITC – International TEFL Certificate s.r.o., Institute for Teacher Training. According to the available data, the host institution has many years of experience in organizing and implementing structured courses in several thematic areas and in several locations.

During the structured course Innovative Approaches to Teaching, the following topics were covered: Theoretical module – 21st Century Skills, Critical and creative thinking, how can it be developed?, Inquiry Based Learning, Task Based Learning, Gamifying the classroom, Using online applications in the classroom, Blended Learning - Flipped Classroom, Adapting teaching materials to suit the needs of differentiated, cases, Metacognition - teaching students to learn, ICT as a tool for development of creativity and critical thinking – Digital Storytelling, Modern trends in Formative assessment and Peer Education.

The structured course was excellently done and organized, and Igor Štavlić's participation in the mobility will contribute to raising the level of quality of preparation and implementation of future educations that will be led by IGOR, Lifelong Learning Centre.

On 13h July 2020 The Grant Agreement was signed by Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes and Lifelong Learning Centre IGOR for a project called "More innovation", 2020-1-HT01-KA104-077207 as a part of ERASMUS+ project, Key Action 1: Mobility of individuals.

This is the first ERASMUS+ project which IGOR, Lifelong Learning Centre is exponent to, which lifts our hearts and encourages us for the future enhancing of work quality in sector of adult education.

Igor Štavlić has participated in NTC Learning System part I and part II seminar in Belgrade on 12th and 13th October 2019. The seminar was given by Ranko Rajović, the author of the NTC programme, and Uroš Petrović, the co-author of the NTC programme.

The NTC programmme connected the knowledge of modern medicine in neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology and neurophysiology to children's everyday activities. It was originated with the purpose of enabling the children to effectuate their own potential, as well as the need to defeat increasingly present problems such as speech, reading and writing disorders. The children from the EU countries achieve above-average results compared to the children from Asian countries in PISA tests. Therefore, the EU accentuated the pertinence of so-called functional knowledge, i.e. the development of speed of thinking, connecting and inference.

The main role of NTC programme is the usage of new inventions in neuroscience, both in classrooms and everyday life. NTC learning programme is compound of different activites and games for children, which are based on knowings about brain development and brain work and, according to a lot of research, they have a positive impact on brain development in the period when it is the most important, in the period of the most intensive growth and development - from the bith to age 10. The game, as an inner motivation of the child, is the key factor of the NTC programme.