CARE/SS aims to develop/adjust a pedagogical framework for online and blended learning for arts education and examine its application by developing and delivering innovative teacher trainings that will empower teachers in arts education. Arts education can respond to the increasingly diverse needs for active citizenship, multiculturalism, respect of diversity, digital learning and sustainable development.

Project CARE/SS is about widening the access to the arts through online and blended learning and enhancing arts education with education for sustainable development elements that will promote creative thinking, critical and systemic thinking, reflection and development of skills, attitudes and values. (Pavlou & Kadji 2021, Vare et al. 2019). Thus, through the content of the trainings, CARE/SS responds to the need to support educational programs that enhance social and intercultural competences, critical thinking & creativity. Education through the arts, especially with the integration of education for sustainable development (particularly the social and cultural aspects), reflects the transition into the 21st century education where emphasis is placed on sustainable competences, such as empathy, attentiveness, participation, values, responsibility, decisiveness, criticality, action, and creativity (Pavlou & Kadji 2021, Vare et al. 2019, Hutchens & Pankratz 2000, Inwood 2010, Kim 2015)

The project aims to enable HEI's digital transformation, to support the development & delivery of teacher training programs that will empower school teachers in arts teaching and thus strengthen their teaching profile. At the same time teachers/future teachers will develop their digital and soft skills and acquire quality experience of learning-teaching situations in a digital environment that could be transfer in primary/secondary levels of schooling. We aim at high quality arts education by responding to the increasingly diverse learners' needs and connect education with teachers and pupils' real life needs.