In 2025, ComeThinkAgain reached a pivotal moment. What began as a shared ambition to rethink how future skills are taught in Europe evolved into a year of bridging worlds: research and practice, European frameworks and everyday teaching, expert knowledge and collective intelligence.
Rather than focusing on isolated outputs, 2025 was about connection, ensuring that ideas, evidence and innovations could travel meaningfully across classrooms, institutions and borders.
Building the Bridge from Research to Educational Practice
Educational innovation is only sustainable when it is grounded in evidence. Throughout 2025, ComeThinkAgain strengthened its foundations by actively contributing to dialogues.
The project presented peer-reviewed work at leading academic and professional conferences, including Constructionism 2025, EARLI 2025—where the consortium shared its poster “Unlocking Learning Potential: Bridging Computational Thinking, Entrepreneurship, and Green Skills”—and ICODSIP 2024 and 2025, as well as the CEPIS Conference. These contributions positioned ComeThinkAgain within ongoing conversations on computational thinking, sustainability competences and innovative pedagogies.
This academic engagement was not an end in itself; it created a shared conceptual foundation.
Translating European Frameworks into Classroom Reality
One of the project’s core ambitions is to ensure that European competence frameworks become usable, concrete and relevant for educators. In 2025, this bridge became tangible.
A major milestone was the completion of the pilot of our primary and secondary modules. Alongside the first pilot workshops with teachers, this marked a decisive step from design to implementation. Teachers did not simply learn about future skills—they experimented with them, adapted them to their contexts, and brought them directly into their classrooms.
Strengthening Quality Through Collective Intelligence
High-quality innovation depends on dialogue. In 2025, ComeThinkAgain invested heavily in building spaces where diverse expertise could meet and shape the project together.
The year saw the launch of the ComeThinkAgain External Advisory Board, followed by its second meeting, bringing strategic insight and external perspectives into the project’s development. At the same time, co-creation workshops with partners and educators proved to be much more than brainstorming sessions. They became spaces for shared learning, challenge and refinement.
Consortium meetings in Athens and Tartu, Estonia, further strengthened collaboration across countries and disciplines, reinforcing a shared vision while respecting local educational realities.
Contributing to the European Skills Dialogue
Beyond its internal ecosystem, ComeThinkAgain actively engaged in broader European conversations on education and skills. In 2025, the project participated in the All Digital Summit as a multiplier event, exchanging experiences with other EU-funded initiatives and exploring synergies across projects.
The consortium also contributed to public debate through an online panel on the Future of Programming Education, while advancing the structuring of the CETS, reinforcing alignment with European certification and skills recognition efforts.
These engagements ensured that ComeThinkAgain did not operate in isolation, but rather as part of a wider European movement towards future-ready education.
Opening Pathways Beyond the Project
Impact does not end with dissemination—it grows through openness and continuity. In 2025, ComeThinkAgain expanded its reach beyond academic and EU circles through publications in the OCG Journal (with further articles forthcoming) and coverage in mainstream media, including a feature in Kleine Zeitung.
A key milestone was the launch of the ComeThinkAgain Community of Practice platform, creating a space for educators, experts and stakeholders to continue exchanging experiences and insights beyond individual project activities. Encouragingly, the project also sparked interest from local businesses in skills-based training and continuing education, pointing to new cross-sector bridges between schools, lifelong learning and the labour market.
Strengthening the Bridges
In 2025, ComeThinkAgain demonstrated that meaningful educational change happens when connections are carefully built and maintained. By bridging research and classrooms, policy and practice, and local experimentation with European dialogue, the project laid strong foundations for long-term impact.
As the project moves forward, these bridges will continue to be strengthened—together with educators, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across Europe.
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