Education

The availability of quality education is critical to all countries' social and economic development.

We support partner countries as they implement educational reforms and innovations in:

• Access to education and quality policy-making

• Teacher training

• Teaching methodologies

• Curriculum reform

• Educational technology

Estonia has nearly three decades of education reform experience and has created a highly regarded education system. In addition to deploying digital skills, we are also ready to offer Estonia’s fresh reform experience in integrating green skills into curricula in development cooperation, considering the OSKA digital and green skills forecast.

Partners

We prioritise capacity building for the third sector and allow only private and third sector organisations to participate in future calls for proposals in education (e.g., skills related to twin transition, entrepreneurship training, internal security training, etc.). The latter does not preclude the involvement of expertise from public sector bodies in private sector or third sector projects or participation with them in a consortium.

Regional priorities

EU Eastern Neighbourhood

• Ukraine — Modernise early childhood education at the national level; support vocational education reform by creating an internal assessment system, enhancing management capabilities and integrating digital and entrepreneurship education into curricula to better align education with labour market needs; implementing digital solutions and e-learning in schools and developing institutional accreditation and internationalisation in higher education.
• Moldova — Support education’s digital transition, boost digital skills and entrepreneurial literacy, increase electronic publications for teaching materials, and integrate these topics into the education system.
• Armenia — Support policy-making and data-driven monitoring, advise on curriculum reform, and support educational innovation, including creating and implementing educational technology solutions; provide professional development for Armenian teachers, especially in rural areas.
• Georgia — Develop multilingual education and a quality education system and empower school leaders to increase schools' autonomy and teachers' professionalism by introducing modern teaching methodologies.

Africa

• Kenya — Modernise teacher education and introduce modern teaching methodologies, improve the education system’s digital capacity, and increase the use of digital applications; support the development of skills that support employment and competitiveness, including digital skills and entrepreneurship for young people and women.
• Uganda — Develop a comprehensive qualification system and digital skills training.
• Namibia and Botswana — Increase digital capabilities and skills development in the education system.

Global education

Global education is defined as education that enables people to understand the world and their role in it. It opens their eyes, hearts and minds to the realities of the world, locally and globally. It empowers people to understand, imagine, hope and act to create a world of peace, solidarity, justice and equality by encouraging environmental sustainability and international understanding.

ESTDEV supported the development of the World Citizen Competency Model in 2022 to add a global dimension to the Estonian curriculum and relate it to the learning outcomes of different subjects.

This model must be incorporated into Estonian curricula. We are working with partners to promote global education among children, young people, and educators and increase demand for sustainable development topics in the Estonian school system. Similarly, we can integrate the global dimension into curricula in our target countries.

ESTDEV's cooperation partners in the field of global education are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education and Research,  NGO Mondo and Mondo Maailmakool, the Development Cooperation Round Table and the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO.