ERGP Project: Extending and Reinforcing Good Practice in Teacher Development
A project funded under the Erasmus+ Strategic partnerships scheme implemented between September 2016 and August 2019
The project aimed to enhance quality of university education in Europe through facilitating professional development of university teachers.
This aim has been achieved by
- offering an educational development course, particularly designed for teaching environments with prevalent teaching-centred practices and with lack of opportunities for teachers’ systematic reflection over their practice;
- assessing the factors that support/limit the transfer of knowledge and skills from educational development course to teachers’ pedagogic practice;
- introducing a program for new educational developers.
Project outcomes
- curriculum of a new course on HE pedagogy
- evaluation of the outcomes of the newly designed course at the individual level
- evaluation of the course outcomes at higher levels (mezzo level or beyond)
- a comparative study of two programs for teachers in higher education and their outcomes
- a book containing case studies into changing student learning
- curriculum of a program for future course leaders
- online resources for academic developers
Researched topics
- the role of trust in program participant relationships and program outcomes
- the nature of conversations about teaching and learning in participant workgroups and how they constrain/support participants while working to improve student learning
- the nature of participant relationships with their significant others and how they influence participants’ pedagogic conceptions and teaching
Project partners
University of Economics, Bratislava (coordinating partner) 
Masaryk University, Brno 
Central European University, Budapest
Lund University 
University of Tartu 
Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) 
Co-funded by Erasmus+ program of the European Union 2016-1-SK01-KA203-022551