Our Mission.

At ELA - Erasmus Learning Academy we focus on designing and implementing international training courses and learning mobility for teachers and education staff. Our mission is to foster excellence in education and training. 

We offers a range of innovative and practice-driven courses tailored for educators, especially teachers. We tailor our courses to the participants needs and profiles thus enhancing personal and professional development. Our focus is on learning outside the classroom in a cooperative and international environment. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange. Fueled by our genuine, motivated and passionate approach, we never stop updating our catalogue by adding new, innovative and high quality courses following the latest innovative education trends.​

Our Knowledge.

We work in the education sector since more than 10 years, thus we know the real context and the challenges which teachers are facing every day. We regularly participate in international training and European conference to keep our know-how up-to-date.

We know how crucial is providing linguistic, pedagogical and cultural preparation before the mobility, as well as support and assistance after it. That's why we go the extra mile to support and guide participants providing clear and comprehensive information before the courses and making them feel comfortable and safe. We have successfully organized board and lodging as well as social activities and cultural visits for thousands of teachers and learners that came to Italy for learning purposes. We ensure constant monitoring and assessment, as well as recognition and validation of learning outcomes through various European tools.

Our Experience.

We holds extensive experience in organizing international training courses for teachers, headmasters and educational staff. Since 2011 we organize our courses with the support of European Union funds and in the last 5 years we’ve successfully received and trained over 2500 teachers and education staff coming from all over Europe. Past participants appreciated our interactive and hands-on approach focused on practice and experiential training and our support in project implementation, practical arrangements, certification and dissemination.

We have a broad experience in European programmes and we’ve successfully received and sent several thousand teachers, headmasters and educational staff for training courses and job-shadowing. We’ve experience as initiators, coordinators and partners, especially in the Erasmus plus and in the European Social Fund programmes.
We work as a hub and a network in the Italian territory where we cooperate with public institutions, schools of all levels, VET centres, universities, adult education providers and other formal and non-formal education institutions.
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Our main headquarter is in Bologna, where most of our courses take place. We organize as well several courses in Sicily and in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. ​During the last year, the difficulty of organizing face to face meetings gave us the opportunity to implement online training courses.

​A peek into our teacher training courses