by Sinem İŞBİLEN (Gümüşyaka Anadolu Lisesi, Istanbul Türkiye)
I’m excited to share some wonderful and proud news with you.
With our project, we applied for one of the European Commission’s most prestigious awards, the European Digital Skills Award 2026. We have achieved a great success and have been selected as a finalist in the Digital Skills for Education category.
A total of 220 applications were submitted across 5 different categories. Our category received the highest number of applications, with 90 submissions. Among the 5 finalists in the Digital Skills for Education category, 4 are universities or high-budget initiatives. Therefore, becoming a finalist as a team of schools working through an Erasmus project is already a remarkable achievement in itself.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Brussels on 30 June.
I would like to sincerely thank all our partner schools, fellow teachers, and students who made it possible for us to carry out this project so successfully. I would also like to give a special thank you to José Manuel Pulido (Colegio San Buonaventura, Madrid), our “award hunter ☺️” who managed the application process and completed the submission form for this award.