Digital Storytelling for Enhanced Learning

Name: Digital Storytelling for Enhanced Learning
Price: 400 EUR

Why this is Erasmus+ eligible

Structured, multi-day programme (5 days) with a pre-defined schedule and learning outcomes — not a passive lecture format.

Built around interaction: participants engage directly with the trainer and with peers from other countries throughout the course.

Transnational by design — open to participants travelling from outside the host country, a core requirement of Erasmus+ mobility funding.

Aligned with the Erasmus+ horizontal priority: Digital Transformation.

The Erasmus+ Programme Guide names digital transformation as a horizontal priority, stating that "the Erasmus+ programme plays a key role in supporting citizens of all ages in acquiring the digital skills and competences they need to live, learn, work, exercise their rights, be informed, access online services, communicate, critically consume, create and disseminate digital education content" (Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Part A – Priorities of the Erasmus Programme).

Source: Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Key Action 1 — School Education Mobility.

Overview

Joe Lambert didn’t set out to build a framework for teachers. Starting in 1994, he was training ordinary people to turn their own memories into short digital films, and by 2003 that workshop practice had crystallised into seven repeatable elements of digital storytelling.

Those seven elements — point of view, a dramatic question, emotional content, economy, pacing, the storyteller’s own voice, and sound — are still what StoryCenter trains documentary and community storytellers on today. What plenty of teachers already ask students to do — make a video, build a slideshow — usually skips all seven and ends up as a technically competent presentation instead of an actual story.

Participants build their own digital story from the ground up using Lambert’s structure, then apply the same process to strengthen creativity, critical thinking and interdisciplinary work across the week — finishing with a project that carries a genuine emotional and narrative arc, not just information delivery.

A finished video is easy to fake with a slideshow and the right music. Harder to fake is Lambert’s structure holding up in front of a real audience — and that’s the test each participant’s story has to pass before the week is over.

Methodology

Hands-On Story Creation

Participants build their own digital stories throughout the week, combining short theoretical input with practical, tool-based work.

Group-Based Development

Daily group work and project presentations turn ideas into finished digital storytelling projects.

Evidence-Informed Practice

Practical lessons are grounded in reliable sources (EU, Eurostat, UN research) on digital storytelling in education.

What you'll take home

Apply digital storytelling techniques to deepen your students' learning of complex topics.

Design digital storytelling projects that build students' creative and critical thinking skills.

Use digital storytelling to increase student engagement and classroom interaction.

Integrate digital skills into your teaching in line with Erasmus+ digital priorities.

Daily programme

Warm-up: Story Cards — building stories from randomly chosen cards
What is digital storytelling and its role in education?
Strategies for digital storytelling using digital tools
Group work: developing a digital storytelling project
Hands-on activity: digital storytelling with digital tools

Warm-up: creative thinking exercises
Methods to enhance creativity in storytelling
Group work: developing creative digital stories
Project presentations: creative storytelling strategies
Hands-on activity: creative digital storytelling with digital tools

Warm-up: question-based critical thinking
Developing critical thinking skills through digital storytelling
Group work: critical thinking and storytelling projects
Project presentations: critical thinking through digital storytelling
Hands-on activity: developing critical thinking with digital tools

Innovative uses of digital tools in storytelling
Supporting learning through innovation and technology
Group work: developing innovative digital storytelling projects
Project presentations: innovation through digital storytelling
Hands-on activity: innovative digital storytelling with digital tools

General course evaluation
Evaluation survey and feedback
Participants' discussion of future projects, collaborations and partnerships
Certificate ceremony

Please note: classes run in the morning or afternoon at the trainer's discretion, and daily timings can shift depending on the trainer's plan and the group's needs. If you'd like a specific topic covered, let us know when you apply — the confirmed day-by-day schedule is sent to registered participants ahead of the course.

Certificate: we issue the Certificate of Attendance to everyone who's present for at least 80% of the course — tracked with the daily sign-in sheet (see Certificate & assessment).

Equipment: a few of our courses ask participants to bring a laptop — check the day-by-day programme above, or ask us if you're not sure.

Need a formal invoice or proforma for your school's records? Ask us — we issue official invoices with the participant's name and course details.

Certificate & assessment

This is a Certificate of Attendance, not an exam-based qualification — recognition comes from completing the structured programme, not from passing a test. The real, lasting value is in the competencies listed above under What you'll take home.

Erasmus Mobility Academy

Certificate of Attendance

Digital Storytelling for Enhanced Learning · 5 days · 25 hrs

+ Europass Mobility document

Type your name above — clearly marked "SAMPLE" in the PDF, not an official document.

The real certificate is signed by your trainer and EMA's authorised signatory. Your own signature isn't on this document — it's captured separately, on the Europass Mobility document.

Need to verify a real certificate? Check it online using the serial number and participant's full name, or contact us directly — [email protected], OID E10304561.

Attendance

Tracked using a sign-in sheet with one signature per participant per day (paper or digital). This record is used to issue your Certificate of Attendance and Europass Mobility document. View sign-in sheet (PDF)

Output

Every participant leaves with a completed Dissemination & School Impact Plan — a step-by-step template for applying the course back at your school (see below).

Feedback

An end-of-course evaluation form is sent to every participant after the course ends — a chance to reflect on what you've learned and how you'll apply it, and it helps us keep improving the course for future participants.

Your paperwork

Keep your travel tickets, boarding passes and (if you used green travel) any related receipts — your school or National Agency may ask for these for their own Erasmus+ reporting.

Practical information

Registration & documents

Not sure how registering works or what paperwork is involved? See our full Registration & Documents guide — from applying to your Certificate of Attendance, in one place.

Invitation letter

Need a formal invitation letter for your school or embassy? Request one — we send it within 2 business days. See a sample (PDF).

Learning Agreement

Prepared by our staff and sent to you and your school once your registration form is submitted — see what it looks like. See a sample (PDF).

Billing & invoicing

We issue official invoices/proformas with the participant's name and course details — ask us. Payment is due in full by bank transfer before the course start date. See a sample (PDF).

Airport transfer

Guidance on getting from the nearest airport to the venue is included in your welcome information.

Accommodation

We can recommend partner hotels close to the venue in the host city — ask us when you apply.

For your school / proposal

School impact

After completing this Digital & Innovative Education course, the participating staff member can transfer outcomes directly to their school: a short briefing for colleagues sharing the key takeaways, applying relevant tools or strategies from the programme in their own role, and inclusion of the course materials in the school's professional development resources — turning one person's mobility into a wider institutional gain that supports the school's European Development Plan. Use the Dissemination & School Impact Plan below to fill in your own — it saves as you go and can generate a one-page summary for your coordinator too.

Prefer a blank, course-independent version of this template? Get it here →

After the course

Participants will receive their certificates (Certificate of Attendance + Europass).

Participants will complete a general course evaluation and event survey.

Participants will receive course materials, videos, photos, and PDF documents in both digital and print formats.

Follow-up support: an email group is created for idea exchange, self-evaluation materials are provided, and participants receive a follow-up check-in after 3 months to discuss progress on using digital storytelling with their students.

Frequently asked

This course is an eligible training activity under Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (School Education Mobility) — the course fee, travel and subsistence fall within the eligible cost categories. Whether it is covered depends on your own project's approved grant agreement and your National Agency's rules; we provide all the invoices, attendance records and certificates your National Agency requires for reporting.

B1 or above is comfortable. Trainers speak clearly, materials are written in plain English, and mixed-nationality teams support each other.

Absolutely — group bookings of 3+ from one school receive priority placement, and we can schedule a dedicated session for groups of 12 or more.

Our courses run on request at our centres in Antalya, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin, Budapest, Bremen and Rome. Tell us your preferred city and dates and we will arrange a session.

Tuition, all materials, certificates (attendance + Europass) and the guided cultural programme. Flights and accommodation are booked separately — we send a vetted hotel list.

You can move to any later session free of charge. Cancellations made 30+ days before the start date receive a full refund; a reduced refund applies closer to the date — see our full Cancellation & Refund Policy for the exact schedule.

The Erasmus+ Programme Guide names digital transformation as a horizontal priority, stating that "the Erasmus+ programme plays a key role in supporting citizens of all ages in acquiring the digital skills and competences they need to live, learn, work, exercise their rights, be informed, access online services, communicate, critically consume, create and disseminate digital education content" (Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Part A – Priorities of the Erasmus Programme). Frame it in your own project's terms — your National Agency's current call will confirm exactly how it applies.