ESF-projektet "Modda"

We are in the middle of a paradigm shift where new technology affects all industries and professions. The school and its staff are absolutely decisive in influencing and enabling the next generation of study- and career choices and thus future skills needs. The skills enhancement therefore not only benefits the employability of the target group, but contributes to strengthening Sörmland and Sweden's competitiveness in the long term. The project is conducted in Sörmland with all municipalities as partners, but we see the importance of spreading the working method to other counties in Eastern Central Sweden and nationally.

The project creates the conditions for relevant competence development among educators and principals in order to meet the future transition that both the school and the individual need to face.

The problem analysis results in the following areas that the project aims to work with, these are:

• School staff lack the technical competence to meet the digitization and technological development that is taking place, for example the possibility of XR technology as experiential learning.
• Lack of competence in how the technology is integrated into educational plans, how it can be used to create content that creates interest in everyone regardless of gender and background, how it becomes a learning experience.
• A majority of all teachers are women, there is a need for students to meet different role models and to get more men attracted to the profession.
• Organizationally, it is required that decision-makers - principals and school heads are locally involved and drive the issue- The school lacks technical resources and process to integrate the use of new technology and new technical accessibility to equipment and educational content needs to be structured and facilitated.
• Strategic influence work to enable, for example, the integration of XR/experience-based learning in teacher training, clarifying competence requirements from industries and business regarding future technology to integrate in schools.

The project includes activities at the individual, organizational and structural level and creates the conditions for long-term planning and implementation.

The project contains skills development activities for a total of 450 people. By using internal ambassadors and internal supervisors, additional people than the direct target group will benefit from the project.

In the project, we will work with the following:

Individual - skills-enhancing initiatives:

• Increased competence in new technology/XR among educators and school staff
• Increased competence on how technology/tools can be integrated into learning - so-called experiencebased learning
• crease interest and commitment of the target group to integrate and use new technology
• igh level of competence and understanding of how technology makes it possible, based on different standards and backgrounds, to create interest in all school subjects
• ompetence and understanding of how teaching can become accessible to everyone, regardless of any functional variations

Organization - school level/principal area:

• nable and clarify methods for how technology is integrated and linked to subjects and how pedagogy is ensured at school level
• nable the use of new technology through access to technical equipment
• stablish a working method with ambassadors, local supervisors and networks to implement the skills increase at organizational level in each school

Structure - regional and national:

• Spreading knowledge and increasing interest in the project's area to identified stakeholders, including MDU, to show the possibilities for technical integration, which can attract more people to the profession outside the given norm, the importance of high competence and how it affects long-term competence supply and children's choice of education and profession. The results can be linked to both individual and organizational level. The competence development efforts give the individual a direct result, while at the same time it gives a result for the municipality/school where the individual is employed. The efforts in the project of a more strategic nature mean results above all at the organizational level, but also affect the individuals.

The project is anchored with participating municipalities.