The University of Granada (UGR), through its Department of English and German Philology and Department of Language and Literature, is participating in the Erasmus+ KA220 project ‘New-Gen Language Teachers: Empowering Language Teaching with Ethical AI-Enhanced Guidance’. Led by the University of Latvia, the project has a total budget of €250,000 and will run for two years. The consortium, which also includes Anadolu University and Bartin University (both in Türkiye), the University of Granada, and the consulting firm Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH (Austria), held a kick-off meeting on 4 December.
New-Gen Language Teachers aims to ensure that both current and future teachers have the necessary skills and ethical awareness to integrate AI responsibly and effectively into language teaching. The initiative addresses the growing influence of AI in teaching and learning processes, promoting digital readiness, ethical awareness and pedagogical innovation across Europe.
The consortium's main objectives, to which the UGR is actively contributing, are as follows:
- To develop teachers' ethical skills and knowledge of AI through structured, research-based training.
- To encourage the responsible, transparent and inclusive use of AI in language classes.
- To drive digital transformation and sustainability in teacher training by developing open-access learning tools.
- To strengthen cross-border collaboration between higher education institutions in Spain, Latvia, Türkiye and Austria.
As part of the project, the consortium plans to create a 20-hour curriculum module on the ethical use of AI in language teaching. This will be accompanied by a game-oriented toolkit for AI-supported language teaching, as well as an interactive, multilingual, open-access MOOC designed to deliver scalable teacher training. These materials will be piloted with 200 prospective English language teachers and will be refined based on feedback from experts and users. They will then be adapted for use in undergraduate and postgraduate teacher training programmes. Complementary activities will include workshops, webinars and summer schools aimed at engaging educators, researchers and policymakers.
The New-Gen Language Teachers project is one of 21 Erasmus+ Key Action 2 cooperation partnerships in which the University of Granada is currently participating.
Contact details:
Ángel Felices Lago
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